By COREY CONNELLY - Newsday - Sunday, January 17 2016
Ten-time National Panorama champions Desperadoes Steel Orchestra will return to its treasured headquarters at Upper Laventille Road, Laventille — permanently — long before Carnival 2017.
For mana
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The Romans of Caesar’s Army will not participate in the ‘lime on the greens’ at Saturday’s Panorama Semi-Finals, Queen’s Park Savannah.
Attendance at the annual event has been common practice for the event production company, for over 10 years. Bu
Read more…Peter Minshall discusses Carnival 2016 - The Dying Swan
Read more…Interesting choice of words!!!
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Read more…By COREY CONNELLY Sunday, January 17 2016 -- Newsday
When Jit Samaroo began to forget the notes of the tunes he arranged for BP Renegades, a steelband he had led to nine National Panorama victories, the players and members of his family became deeply
Read more…What do you all think, Is it time for an Audit of Pantrinbago? The longest Rope always have an end.
Read more…by Kalifa Clyne - Trinidad Guardian
Minister of Arts, Culture and Community Development Nyan Gadsby-Dolly says T&T is looking to South America as a potential market for steelpan and steelpan services.
Gadsby-Dolly said this during an interview yester
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The spotlight will be on veteran musician Roy Cape when the UWI, Media 21 and Ministry of Community Development Culture and the Arts dedicate The UWI Classic Concert 2016 to him.
This year’s concert was launched last Friday, January 15.
The concert,
Read more…Question: If 20 people sang, wined and jumped up on a stage and nobody got a trophy, did it really happen?
Answer: … Hello? Hello, Mr Munro…?
Photo: Leh we wot?! Steups. Pastor, I trying to find out who win the damn Soca Monarch!
(Courtesy LexoTV)
It
Read more…The T&T Guardian is running a two-part series that explores the vi
LOOP - News
Angostura is paying homage to the national Instrument and elements of Panorama during the Carnival Season with their limited edition White Oak Panorama 2016 sleeves.
“We felt that the country’s most popular rum should depict the excitemen
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Laura Dowrich-Phillips
Platinum, the lone all-female steelband that will compete in Sunday’s Panorama, semi-finals is aiming to raise $25,000 to offset some of their expenses.
The band, which will be among the medium bands competing on Sund
Read more…by Laura Dowrich-Phillips - Loop magazine
The Ministry of Community Development, Culture and the Arts is making moves to hire an expert to start the assessment this year.
Speaking to Looptt today, Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly. Minister of Community Developmen
Read more…Fete promoter Randy Glasgow is calling on the Trinidad and Tobago Copyright Organisation (TTCO), to inform party organisers of the artistes they represent, so as to give them clarity when applying for copyright licences.
Glasgow tells LoopTT that the
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Steel band featured in Pan
Pan! Our Music Odyssey is the title of a documentary that explores the magic and mystery behind the steel drum, also known as pan. The episode airs on Monday, January 25 at 8:00 p.m. ET/5:00 p.m. PT on World Channel.
The
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Visitor guides will be on hand to offer assistance to locals and visitors for the 2016 Carnival period.
The Tourism Ministry has confirmed that some 25 uniformed visitor guides will be strategically stationed along the streets of the capital city fr
Read more…It appears as if everyone enjoys bashing today’s young people and their music. But so-called art forms are not abstract inventions
imposed on history. Rather they are carried in the vital living of community…and the engulfing violence.
So let us att
Funeral arrangements for the late Lennox ‘Sam’ Fortune RIP 26th November 2015; Hatters SO & San City SS.
The Funeral arrangements for the late Lennox ‘Sam’ Fortune, are as follows; on Wednesday, 2nd December 2015:
2:00 pm - Service at the St Paul’s
Read more…Brief BIO of Lenox ‘Sam’ Fortune - RIP 26th November 2015
PREAMBLE:
Widely know in the South as a pan maker/tuner, pan teacher, driller and arranger; ex Captain of Hatters; 'Sam' a diabetic, is recognised for his insistence to carry on regardless.
Read more…Lennox ‘Sam’ Fortune; Tutor, Arranger, Composer, Driller, Pan Maker, San City SS & Hatters SO, Passes; RIP 26th November 2015.
‘Sam’ at Junil Pennies birthday party Hatters Pan Theatre - 1st February 2010
Principal founder San City Steel Sympho
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