Youngsters set to steel the shows

Youngsters set to steel the shows

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St. Maarten: 21st annual “Pan in paradise” steel pan concert to be held December 29th

Philipsburg, St. Maarten - Dow's Musical Foundation and the Ebony Steel Orchestra under the leadership of Sir Isidore York aka the Mighty Dow, is presenting its 21st annual "Pan in paradise" steel pan concert, with this year's theme "Sound of Steel"

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Digital Business donates $20,000 to Pan Trinbago

Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Curepe-based management and technology consultancy and mobile app development company, Digital Business Limited earlier this week presented Pan Trinbago with $20,000 for the future development the s

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Bertie Marshall gone but not forgotten - A harmonious sound forever

   

A harmonious sound forever By Helen Drayton Sunday, October 28 2012 ‘I started to tune pan from the time I got into it, because I wasn’t satisfied with what I was hearing. I was a young fella going to St. Phillip EC School up by the fly-over. I

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bmobile powers Digital Pan expansion

Global - bmobile, the mobile division of Telecommunications Services of T&T (TSTT), has powered the launch of an application dubbed ‘Digital Pan’. The Digital Pan Mobile App was developed by Caribbean software application development company Digital

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Positive Vibrations: Young steel drum players share Caribbean flair

Maryland, USA - “Completely submerged in music.”

That was how Jeremy Caesar, 23, of Beltsville described what it takes to become a good musician, and that was him this past Saturday night at the annual Christmas concert of First United Methodist Chur

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Couva Joylanders gets new Pan complex

Trinidad Express Newspapers

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Players and management of Couva Joylanders Steel Orchestra are going into Panorama 2013 with new sponsorship from the National Gas Company (NGC).

As a result, the band will hold its practice sessi

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Pan Trinbago Elections Postponed due to High Court involvement

From Pan Trinbago

Elections for positions of central executives will not take place, as the matter is engaging the attention of the High Court of Trinidad and Tobago.

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Soca artiste Machel Montano was this morning found guilty of five criminal offences.

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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -

Soca artiste Machel Montano was this morning found guilty of five criminal offences.

Montano was found guilty on four charges of assault against Gerard Bowrin, Brandis Browne, Janelle Lee Chee and Russell Pollonais. The

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Listening to Dr Douglas Live on radio

At the moment I am listening to a radio program call "Crab in the Barrel" Keith Diaz call in the show, he and the Minister duke it out, anyhow when the announcer ask Keith a question HE HANG UP THE PHONE ON THE ANNOUNCER....Keith you show the world y

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Panmaster Robert Greenidge will receive the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award at the Caribbean American Heritage Awards

South Florida Caribbean News

WASHINGTON, DC - World acclaimed panmaster Robert Greenidge has been at the forefront of spreading awareness and exposure of the steel pan, the national instrument of Trinidad and Tobago.

On Friday, Nov. 16 at 8 p.m. he

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Legal moves to stop Pan Trinbago elections

FORMER executive member of Pan Trinbago Keith Simpson told the Express that attorney Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj was supposed to file an injunction yesterday against Pan Trinbago on his behalf, preventing the organization's general elections from taking

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Open Invitation To Join "Pan Forever On De Barbargreen" on Facebook

Hi ALL-

I hope that all is well with you all. I just wanted to briefly come on to personally invite you all to join our Facebook group, Pan Forever On De Barbargreen. This has been the forum I have been using for discussions relating to pan and the S

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Abbey School ( Mt.St.Benedict ) Steelband in 1951

1951

                   MOUNT MARINERS STEEL BAND

While we were maturing academically and spiritually, we were also, at the same time, evolving culturally. The Abbey School boasted the very first School-based steelband in Trinidad and Tobago.

 

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$75,000 came too late to help Bertie says pan legend’s daughter

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I.  - Claudine Marshall, the daughter of pan legend Bertie Marshall, who died last Wednesday, said yesterday the $75,000 given to the family yesterday by Government could not comp

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Sounds of the Caribbean Coming to Clacks

The Ochil Steel Band is set to be formed at Lornshill Academy, with steel drums on their way from the Caribbean island of Trinidad.

The band is the brainchild of Lornshill Academy music teacher, Maureen Howitt, who managed to obtain the drums thanks

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Clash of the music titans - Robert Greenidge - Len "Boogsie" Sharpe

Trinidad Guardian

Two steelpan virtuosos of contrasting styles delivered enriching music with a remarkable sense of harmony and rhythm, that yet again demonstrated the musical possibilities of the instrument, to an almost full house of appreciative p

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For Bertie, with thanks

For Bertie, with thanks

by Sunity Maharaj

Re-published with the expressed permission of the author

 

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - There are some things for which one must pause. Pause—even from such enticing distractions as men without briefs, legal one

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Pan now main instrument in parang competition

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Bottle and spoon, grater, scratchers and wood blocks are essentials when paranderos go paranging. Contemporary bands have incorporated the flute, electric bass, Latin percussions and the steelpan in its ensemble. Now, the Na

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Decision in Pan Trinbago’s lawsuit Jan 17

Newsday - Trinidad & Tobago

ADMISSION that Pan Trinbago adopts a liberal approach to interpreting its constitution so as to allow greater participation by steelband lovers, was made yesterday by Pan Trinbago’s general secretary, Richard Forteau.

Fort

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