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No steelbands for Arima Borough Day - Panists ordered to stay away...

 

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Any steelband that participates in today's Arima Borough Day celebrations will be barred from competing in the 2011 International Steelband Music Festival and the 2012 National Panorama Championships, Pan Trinbago East Reg

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Service for Latavia Deane of Despers USA - Gone but not forgotten

Latavia Deane- March 18, 1993-October 9, 2011 - Gone But Not Forgotten.
SERVICE IS TODAY Oct 18
Viewing: 4:00PM-6:00PM
Service: 6:00PM-9:00PM @Cross Over Ministry (Bethel House Of Prayer)
2179 Clarendon Road, Brooklyn, NY

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Fatima student gets head-start for Pan tuning career

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Teenager Brandon Francis has been given the perfect head-start for a prospective career in the steel pan industry by emerging as the Most Outstanding Student in an intensive Basic Pan Tuning course sponsored by energy compan

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Pan United meet celebrities

Pan United youth on local news station in Martinsville VA, discussing their recent performance
in Washington DC. Being interview is Khadim Mbake dbl second, Kamari Thwaites soprano and
Joshua Leftwich.

MARTINSVILLE, VA --
It was an experience o

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Sagicor sponsorship of Exodus ends -

Sagicor Life Inc and Exodus
Steel Orchestra have concluded their sponsorship agreement after six years of
partnership.

From the Trinidad Newsday

Sagicor’s General Manager, Robert Trestrial, said via a press
release that the relationship between Sagic

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What’s in budget for panmen?

Trinidad Guardian

What can panmen look forward to in Budget 2012 when it’s read in Parliament on Monday? An increase in Panorama 2012 prize money? A decrease? The completion of their headquarters as promised by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar?

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‘Nuff’ Pan Pun De Sand

‘Nuff’ Pan Pun De Sand
 

Barbados, W.I. - Eleven steelpan groups, including two from Trinidad and Tobago, will perform at the BS&T Pan Pun De Sand, now one of the most anticipated events of Barbados’ Crop Over Festival.

This was disclosed yesterday

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Pan finds a new groove - US citizen takes instrument to another sphere

Trinidad & Tobago Guardian

 

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I.

 

Perfect pitch, goes a musician joke, is throwing the banjo in the dumpster and hitting the accordion. Seriously, though, it’s a perfect combo when Jonathan Scales throws in the banjo  with the do

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Hells Gate confident of holding on to pan title

Hells Gate confident of holding on to pan title
 

St. John’s, Antigua, W.I.  - St. John’s Antigua Representative of LIME Hell’s Gate Steel Orchestra Stafford Joseph expects the band to hold onto the 2011 Panorama championship title after, he said, in

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Music teacher jailed for child porn

A steel-band leader who gave music lessons in schools shared thousands of "hideous" images of child abuse, including rape and torture, with other paedophiles via the internet, a court heard today.

Benedict Everett had more than 7,000 images and video

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AG claims national scandal in G-Pan, PHI sale

Trinidad & Tobago,      W.I.  
 
 
Attorney General Anand Ramlogan has described allegations surrounding the ownership of the patents and intellectual property rights of the G-Pan and PHI as a national scandal amounting to fraud.

 

A probe by the Offic

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"Steelpan missing from tourism month ad", Trinidad & Tobago Guardian.

How do you feel about this? This, in the birthplace of pan. In my opinion, this is what (so-called) "panists" get for forgetting their history, and disrespecting the leadership and contributions of yore. Now, you have an organization that is powerles

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Buh Wha' DIAZ Is Dis? Pan In Danger!

http://www.guardian.co.tt/news/2011/10/07/critical-shortage-drums-steelpans

 

Sometimes, I wonder if people understand the function of Pan Trinbago. Obviously, this "leader" does not, good intentions or otherwise. Oftentimes, I wonder if we all unde

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Major Cash Injection for Panorama

Major Cash Injection for Panorama
 

Antigua & Barbuda, W.I. - Sixty thousand dollars has been injected into the Panorama competition ahead of the 2011 Carnival celebrations. The Antigua Commercial Bank (ACB) made the donation to representatives of th

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Brian Copeland's response to AG's allegations

Read the response via Percussive Harmonic Instrument Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/PHI-PercussiveHarmonicInstrument/52268949383

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Etienne Charles sets Kaiso in age of elegance

Global - ....it was a seminal textbook on Phase II Pan Groove’s jazz harmony and language that provided a scholarship of sorts when he had turned 13.

“Pan was most important in my musical training,” Charles said. “The yard teaches you to memorise. B

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It's Steelband Panorama tonight in St Lucia - after an absence of two years!!

St. Lucia, W.I. -  Panorama is back, and with LIME’s support, it’s guaranteed to be one of the biggest and most spectacular pan extravaganzas to be staged in St Lucia for a long time.

Eight bands are down to perform at the event scheduled for Friday

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Panorama Controversy By OBSERVER News

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – LIME Hell’s Gate Steel Orchestra – the 2011 Panorama champion – said it would not be swayed by talk of legal action over the results of the Carnival show, following concerns over the points’ distribution.

The matter has been deba

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Mendelssohn Performing Arts Center receives grant money

Mendelssohn Performing Arts Center receives grant money
 

Illinois, USA - "The Mendelssohn Performing Arts Center has been awarded a grant of $500 by the President's Discretionary Fund of the Community Foundation of Northern Illinois," Laura Schweitz

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Prof Copeland did not invent PHI

Prof Copeland did not invent PHI By SEAN DOUGLAS Thursday, July 14 2011 THE idea of an electronic steel-pan was developed in 1994, said pan pioneer Garnet Broadbelt, who yesterday told Newsday he worked on such a project at York University, Toront

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