The Toronotist
By Jamie Bradburn
What began as a centennial year project grew into an annual summer tradition.
“Laughing girls in leopard skins dance along Bloor St in Saturday’s Caribana ’67 parade. Toronto’s 8,000 West Indians are throwing a week-
TT ICP 2015 - Estimate BASE costs for TT ICP Panorama 2015 - Appearances fees & Prizes
TT ICP 2015 - Estimate BASE costs for TT ICP Panorama 2015 - Appearances fees & Prizes
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PRESIDENT Anthony Carmona was yesterday presented with a framed copy of two sets of postage stamps respectively from Ghana and Grenada, each commemorative set featuring His Excellency with Pope Francis the latter playing the steelpan
Read more…The most underrated Tenor Pan Player and Tuner, May God Bless his Soul, http://www.bestoftrinidad.com/steelband/johnston.html
Read more…This song has been associated with All Stars for years, by Phase ll playing it show that they are coming to let people know they have a "Woman On The Bass" too, This should be very interesting because we know pan people are going to compare the two a
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Washington, DC, USA - An enormous poster of the movie “Casablanca” looms over a desk as film producers Kim Johnson and Jean Michel Gilbert speak, via Skype, from Port of Spain in Trinidad and Tobago. The poster does not suggest any pa
by Patricia Meschino
The Victor Recording Company’s sessions in Trinidad, which produced the first recording of calindas (the chants accompanying carnival’s stick fighting ritual) sung by Jules Sims, are also noteworthy for the virtuosic piano play
Read more…TT ICP 2015 - List of TT Qualifier steelbands
TT ICP 2015 - List of TT Qualifier steelbands
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In what is shaping up to be as fiery a battle as any post-war steelband clash, 12 foreign steelbands will challenge the world’s best when they come against 12 local steel orchestras for the title of International Panorama Champions. This competition,
Read more…By Patricia Meschino
Calypso is often cited as the first genre to sell over a million copies: Harry Belafonte’s “Calypso” album released on RCA Records in 1956 holds the distinction as the Recording Industry of America’s (RIAA) first certified platin
WASHINGTON, May 29, 2015 — In a non-regular season, non-pops special concert Friday evening, Washington’s National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) blew the lid off the Kennedy Center’s Concert Hall with a scorching-hot program of Latin American and Latin-in
By Alley Olivier
The sun is shining. There is music in the streets. Sounds like the start of a great summer day to me.
Downtown Brooklyn is providing free entertainment every first and last Thursday of the month for any passerby, group, tourist or m
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Pan Trinbago vice president, Brian Serrette, rather curiously asserted at the opening of the Univer
Radoes Steel Orchestra extends its heartfelt sympathies to the family, friends, and pan family of Peter Johnson, aka Bomber or Showtime. We will be hoping to raise funds to assist his family to defray the funeral expenses and hope you will all give g
Read more…The prodigious dancer, choreographer, painter, designer and actor Geoffrey Holder, who died in October — but not before reportedly dancing on his deathbed — would have been 85 on Saturday. Lincoln Center Out of Doors hosted a day of events in his hon
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Winner of Last Year's Canadian Pan Alive Competition Representing Canada in International Competition and Performing Twice in Toronto Next Week!
Canada - Pan Fantasy Steelband steps up to the challenge to represent Toronto, Canada at the
Photo credit: Jake Wong
Vern Henry, captain of Panorama champions Lime Hell’s Gate Steel Orchestra, says the fact that one point
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St. Croix, USVI - The sounds of steel pan bands filled the air Saturday afternoon as PanoRama kicked off the month-long St. John Festival celebration, this year with a theme of “Come Together Culturally On the Scene for Festival 20
Read more…Kendall Williams sees the potential in the steel pan, the bright, resonant, pinging instrument widespread in island music.
In his own compositions that showcase the instrument, Williams looks to Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Philip Glass and Steve Reich,
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Methanol Holdings Trinidad Limited (MHTL) has donated US$100,000 to the St. Margaret’s Boys’ Steel Orchestra from Belmont to participate in the 2015 New York Sounds of Summer International Music Festival at the prestigious Carnegie H
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