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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The proliferation of music stands in steelband performances, signifying widespread sight-reading by pan players, might be mistaken for a faddish overnight sensation on the Trinidad and Tobago pa
Read more…Last week, Roberts released his first 2015 single Soca State of Mind and is collaborating with Exodus to remake one of his father’s hits, The Toco Band, for Panorama.
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Trinidad and Tobago's music industry is used to controversial lyrics in its annual crop of new soca (soul of calypso) and calypso songs for carnival.
But in the run-up
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Brooklyn, New York - “Whose neighborhood? Our neighborhood!” the protestors shouted. The lines and the arguments are clearly defined. In what has become a significant flashpoint in the push-back ag
Marabella, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - So The semi-final round of Talent Expression, the leading performance art talent competition in the South, organised by the Southern Marines Steelband Foundation has set the stage for a tremendous final night.
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The promoters of the 2014 T&T Steel Pan and Jazz Festival (TTSJF) have recruited an exceptional line-up of facilitators for the 12th annual First Citizens Workshops for Young Musicians Series, to
Greeetings everyone,
YES, I am certainly pushing this agenda...as such I have set up a facebook page to get the necessary feedback from the public. I welcome all inputs from the people who agree that this is good and also from the people who have opp
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Golden Hands, a group of young vibrant steelpan musicians based in San Fernando, is celebrating its 21st anniversary with the staging of I Am Pan: The National Steelpan Pageant, at the Sundarlal
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Barbados, W.I. - The Sweet Sounds of the steel pan are resonating across Brandon’s Beach and its environs.
In front of a large crowd, Massy Pan Pun De Sand got off to an infectious musical start with Central Bank Band Camp.
With a bi
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The Northern Region of Pan Trinbago Inc. will be holding two events during the month of July. The first is carded for Friday July 11th at the Food Court, Queen’s Park Savannah in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.
“Pan on the Food Co
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Laventille, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The late veteran calypsonian Garfield Blackman (Ras Shorty I) is renowned for the classic “Watch Out My Children”—a lament against the evils of substance abuse.
Last Friday evening, a
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London, England, U.K. - ....Rooted in African traditions such as the Tamboo Bamboo bands, the music of the dented metal drums is said to have begun in Laventille, a poor suburb just outside Trinidad’s capital Port of Spain, where UK pan ar
Congrats Ian Franklin on your 26th Wedding Anniversary today and I wish you and your Wife Joan many more,
Read more…POST BROOKLYN CARNIVAL OBSERVATION
Trying to Muzzle Small Media
Photo: (Extreme left) without a flag is carnival boss of bosses southerner William Howard while others such as Governor Andrew Cuomo (center) proudly display Caribbean pride during las
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London, England, U.K. - Brent youngsters showed that they do have talent after taking part in a grand performance showcasing the very best of classical music–all played on steel drums.
Members of the St Michaels and All Angels
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Brooklyn, New York - It seems like it was only yesterday when WST (When Steel Talks) first saw Jonathan Scales on a double second pan perform live for the first time at the Shine in Harlem. The event was back in the year 2009. In fact it was early th
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Success Stars Pan Sounds Steel Orchestra recently released its new fund-raising CD titled Legacy of Excellence.
The 11-track album, a Pan In Education fund-raising initiative, contains composition
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Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The fourth annual Birdsong benefit concert was appropriately held in the Lord Kitchener auditorium at NAPA on June 22. As an icon of T&T’s musical patrimony, Kitch would surely have
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Oklahoma, USA - Sante Fe South Charter Schools seeks a truck sponsor for its steel drum band. The band, Pandemic, is made up of the high school’s top students.
Santa Fe South High School is alive with the sound of percussion music.
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On behalf of the New York pan family, I offer our condolences to Wendy Jones Bandleader of Pan Fantasy Steel Orchestra Toronto Canada, on the loss of her brother, we also offer condolences to the Pan Fantasy family.
May his eternal sprit rest in pea
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