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.
Ev
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
Read more…This is a notice of a very important meeting being held tomorrow Tuesday September 23rd 2014 @ Medgar Evers College on Bedford Ave. 7pm.
This is what is taking place.
There is a plan by Community Board 9 and other interested parties to re-zone Empire
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Carnival stakeholders have openly expressed their disappointment with the arrangement for major events of Grenada’s 2014 Carnival, which officially began on Saturday with the Children’s Carnival Frolic taking place at t
Read more…Did San Juan All Stars played "Return of Battle Cry" in 1960 or 1962? And did Despers sent a warning to San Juan All Stars not to pass the flyover, but they continued to enter Port of Spain, and a Police contingent followed San Juan All Stars all th
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Leeds, England - Tributes have been paid to a Leeds car mechanic turned professional musician whose life was transformed after he appeared on a TV talent show.
Sonny Marks, who died last week aged 73, was a founder member one
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Pictured above: NYC Mayor Bill deBlasio and his family dance at the 2014 West Indian American Day Carnival.
New York, USA - Is it racist or simply stupid that five shootings in Brooklyn that occurred in the wee hours of Monday mo
Read more…In the Year 1959, San Juan All Stars received one of the Worst Cutarse From Desperadoes. Despers protected their Women and Children in The ARK, Punished San Juan All Stars and went on to the Savannah to depict (Portray) their Mas. (It wasn't no big t
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St. Vincent & The Grenadines, W.I. - Eighteen- year-old Kasique Oliver (pictured at right) is well on his way to becoming a music protégé.
Apart from his trophy for winning the first ever Bank of Nova Scotia Solo Pan Clash on Sunday
Read more…San Juan All Stars/Despers Clash was in 1959, What Mas did San Juan All Stars played? I said that they played "Battle Cry" some say that they played "To Hell and Back",
Both Movies were produced in 1955.
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