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Pan Trinbago Inc. disassociates itself from meeting held at Silver Stars Panyard

Pan Trinbago inc. wishes to advise its membership and the general public that no public forum was either held on or sanctioned to be held at the Silver Stars Pan Yard on the evening of Wednesday 09^th April  2013 by the Association.

Further, Pan Trinb

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Toronto school board saves music program - previous story: Toronto District School Board considers muting music programs to balance budget

UPDATE

The Globe and Mail - June 19, 2013

Toronto school board saves music program

Toronto, Canada - The Toronto District School Board will save its cherished music program.

 

Trustees voted Wednesday night to balance its books by cutting nearly $30

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Veteran Panist Basil Manners to be Esteemed Patron for Nevis’ Culturama

zizonline.com

Culturama - Nevis’ Premiere summer Festival

 

St. Kitts/Nevis, W.I. - ....Mr. Manners has been involved in the preservation of Nevisian folk music for over five decades having joined the Carib Steel Orchestra in 1962 at the tender age o

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Controversy mars first Panorama in 1963

Trinidad Express

By Louis B Homer South Bureau

It was the economic depression in Trinidad in the 1930s and the latent musical talent of young Afro-Trinidadians that gave birth to the steelpan as a unique musical instrument in Trinidad and Tobago whic

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Khuent Rose, CASYM Steel Orchestra and Rose’s very own Ep!k Ensemble celebrate a Holy Musical Easter Sunday

Brooklyn, New York - Renowned C.A.S.Y.M. (Caribbean American Sports and Youth Movement, Inc.) Steel Orchestra is at The Elim International Fellowship, at 20 Madison Street in Brooklyn on Easter Sunday on March 31, 2013 at 3:00 p.m. Special guest cond

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Pan in de Countryside 2013 - first stop: Tableland

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - April marks the start of the “new” Pan Trinbago Pan in de Countryside series.  The event commences on Saturday 6^th April at the Tableland Recreation Centre, Tableland Extension Road, Tableland, from 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

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Woeful Monday night pan in South

Trinidad Guardian

After the fourth steelband passed the judges during the Carnival Monday Night Steelband Competition in San Fernando, one woman said, “I am still waiting to hear a real band play.” Another said: “Is this all the bands in San Fernando

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Solo Harmonites a beacon in Morvant/Barataria

Trinidad Guardian

The management of four-time National Panorama champion Solo Harmonites Steel Orchestra does not take the commitment of its members who represent the brand lightly, says operations manager Owen Serrette.

He said the band, in spite of

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LAUNCH of CARIBnet!! NEW INITIATIVE FOR THE LIVE INTERACTION OF PANNISTS,

A message from Jacqueline Sealey

LAUNCH of CARIBnet!! NEW INITIATIVE FOR THE LIVE INTERACTION OF PANNISTS, from Northern Illinois University (NIU), The University of Trinidad & Tobago (UTT), and, the UK at the Headquarters of JANET, at Didcot in Oxf

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Dover High School Steel Band prepares to drum up iPan, u listen

Tuscarawas Bargain Hunter

Ohio, USA - The Dover High School Steel Band, under the direction of Joan Wenzel, will create an evening of warm-weather paradise for their annual Pantasia concert. The unique event will be held on Feb. 17, and will be a cel

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Crowd schooled in calypso of yesteryear

Trinidad Guardian

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - World-renowned jazz pan player Andy Narell and his band put on the University of Calypso at the Learning Resource Centre at UWI, St Augustine campus last week.

The show was a resounding success as stellar

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Sterling Betancourt MBE – a pan roun’ neck legend

Sterling Betancourt (pictured far right) is launching a calypso about TASPO that he’s written (which the ever-popular Crazy has contributed the vocals to) at the Trinidad High Commission in London on March 26th 2013.

The man is an octogenarian, but

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Success Stars to perform at US Black Arts Festival

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday 

 

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Success Stars Pan Sounds of Laventille has been invited back to Atlanta, Georgia, USA for more performances, after leaving patrons speechless when they performed at Centennial Olympic Park last

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Cyril Khamai, global pan pioneer

Trinidad & Tobago Guardian

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - As the unmistakable sound of pan continues to spread across the farthest reaches of the globe, it is perhaps worth pausing to take stock of these early pan pioneers. Beyond the members of Taspo and

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Phase II for Nigeria - As part of Panorama first prize...

Trinidad Express Newspapers

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - National Panorama 2013 winner (Large Band) Petrotrin Phase II Pan Groove will travel to Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria, in November as part of its first prize winnings.

This announcement was m

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South bands struggling to find players for Panorama

Trinidad & Tobago Guardian

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - While the national Panorama competitions continue to flourish in Port-of-Spain, steelbands in San Fernando are struggling to find players to launch a big challenge. The present situation is not ov

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Pan Trinbago pays tribute to stalwarts

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday 

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago, in celebrating its 50th anniversary, paid tribute to some of Trinidad and Tobago’s outstanding arrangers, tuners and steel bands in a gala awards ceremony at Cascadia Hotel, St Ann’

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Hanover concert celebrates steel drum program

Pennsylvania, USA - Several Hanover middle and high school students showed off their musical talent at the first Hanover Steel drum concert held Sunday afternoon.

The students performed alongside steel drum instructor and musician Eric Fountain, of

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Mixed views over new site of stage at Skinner Park

Trinidad Guardian

In years gone by, the stage stood in the middle of the field, facing the stands. 

 

However, the new stage is now on the western end of the field, facing east. This means patrons in the pavilions would get mostly a distant left-side

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Peace and Pan on the Greens

Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Unlike the violence between North Stand patrons and the police at last year’s National Panorama semi-finals at the Greens in the Queen's Park Savannah, in Port-of-Spain, yesterday’s Panorama semis s

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