Triumph for Renegades Youth, QRC/Providence and St. Paul’s Boys A.C. Steel Orchestras - 2014 Junior National Panorama Results

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -  In the end there could be, only three. Winners, that is - out of the thirty steel orchestras in three categories (Primary Schools, Secondary Schools and Non-Schools), which played their hearts out for judges in the 2014 ed

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CIBC First Caribbean gifts Pan Association

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Roseau, Dominica, W.I. - The Pan Association has secured sponsorship which will enable them to participate in this year’s Carnival Monday on March 3.

The Association was presented with a five thousand dollars cheque ($5000.00) on Th

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‘I love my pan’

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Seventy-two-year-old amputee Glendford Sobers who played the steelpan from a wheelchair, stole the show at the National Panorama 2014 Single Pan preliminaries at Guaracara Park in Marabella on Sat

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Former Founding member of West Side Symphony member Leroy (Foody) Learmont, Passed

Leroy (Foody) Learmont a Founding member of West Side Symphony (Bwia Sunjets) Passed yesterday due to a long illness, Funeral is Today. No more Pain and Suffering may God Bless and Keep him, Amen

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"Carnival City"

Trinidad and Tobago needs a place where everything in the name of Carnival can be held. A space like Las Vegas, Atlantic City or Disney World. Where in the Center of it all is A Stadium equipped with luxury and economical booths and seating for all..

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Winning Steel Orchestras, Mas, Kaiso and more at Champs of Steel Plus

Global - Even as Lord Kitchener sang “The Carnival Is Over,” “Champs of Steel Plus gives steelpan music and culture lovers one final chance to relive the memories of the recently-concluded Carnival celebrations.

The post-Carnival event produced by P

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Mom, 15, shot dead ....An avid lover of steelpan

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - A mother of a six-week-old girl. An aspiring interior designer. An avid lover of steelpan.

All these things, and so much more, described 15-year-old Aleah Cain who was brutally gunned down on Tue

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Pan Boss Loses Cool on 91.1 Radio Over Greens and Pan Splash Questions

The Pan Trinbago boss Keith Diaz lost his cool when a panel at Talk City 91.1 asked him some real questions about his budget for the Greens and the Pan Splash. He was obviously shaken and angry as he stormed off the line.

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Dennis-Yarmouth's Mattacheese goes Caribbean

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Steel-drum icon’s visit boosts interest

West Yarmouth, Massachusetts, USA - Born in Trinidad and later living in Tobago, Michael Gabriel had been playing reggae and calypso on steel drums with a traveling symphony for five years by the t

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Panicle set to boost steelband

Trinidad Guardian

NGO to hold town hall meeting on March 7

Panicle Ltd, an NGO aimed at providing support systems for the steelbands of T&T and their membership, will host its George “Sonny” Goddard Inaugural Steelband Town Hall Meeting on March 7, f

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‘Pan Splash’ will be back .

Trinidad Express

Organisers: We broke even in spite of negative publicity..

“Pan Splash” was a success and will be back in 2015! 

This, yesterday from Michelle George, official spokesperson for the entities behind the concept area (Jus Juices, Aqua

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Neville Blackman - Passages: Trinidadian transplant introduced Hamilton to sound of steel drums

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Neville Blackman — March 20, 1931 to Dec. 23, 2013

Ontario, CANADA - Neville James Blackman is credited with being one of the key people who introduced the sound of the steel drum to Hamilton. So it was only fitting that those soothing, u

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Carnival copyright redux by Mark Lyndersay

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It shouldn't be surprising, given the NCC’s failure to hold a public consultation on the copyright issues that arose in 2013, to find the whole ugly mess bubbling up again.
Photographers who went to the NCC to seek accreditation for the 2014

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Groovy Soca Steelband Competition & Fitness Chippin’ - All In A Monday Night’s Pan

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Steelbands will have two events in which to display their musical skills come Carnival Monday evening. One is the second edition of the Groovy Soca Steelband Competition in all Pan Trinbago Regions and the other, Health & Fi

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...On The Greens the party goes on despite pan music

Trinidad Express

...Thousands of feters, grouped into several corporate and party crews, revelled under the scorching mid-afternoon sun to their favourite Soca artistes and DJs. At a first glance it seemed a huge victory for Pan Trinbago, scoring tha

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Works of WST Forum Member featured in NY Daily News

Black History Month: New York celebrates African-American culture and heritage with an abundance of 2014 events

Info:To read Goddard’s “Singing Drum” Black History post and discussion, visit http://bit.ly/SingingDrum.

Read more: http://www.nydailyne

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TUCO: $8M woeful - Carnival 2014

Trinidad Newsday By JULIEN NEAVES

THE ALLOCATION given to the Trinbago Unified Calypsonians’ Organisation (TUCO) for Carnival 2014 is “woefully short”, president Lutalo “Brother Resistance” Masimba declared yesterday.

He said TUCO would have liked $2

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Petition for Duvone Stewart to perform on jazz main stage

The Tobago News

Tobago, W.I. - A petition is underway calling for Tobagonian panist Duvone Stewart to perform on the main stage during the 2014 Tobago Jazz Experience.

More than 240 people have already signed the petition which will be sent to the o

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WHO WAS THE FIRST PERSON YOU KNOW OF THAT STARTED PLAYING WITH 3 STICKS.

I spoke to Spongy this morning and he said that  the first he knew of was the Bonaparte Bros, my comrade Cecil said that Steve Regis was the first, Do you know of who was the first or who you know of that played with 3 Sticks first? (good info for th

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birdsong offering students free music education programme

Trinidad Express Newspapers

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - As an expansion of its existing efforts, the birdsong steelband is from this month offering a free after-school music education programme for early teens and pre-teens.

The after-school programme

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