Pan Ramajay is back after 16 years

Newsday - Melissa Doughty

Natasha Joseph, playing the double tenor, was "the first female to enter the Pan Ramajay competition in 1994." -

The participants will be judged on verse, chorus; melodic/motivic development; harmonic/rhythmic embellishment;

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Wiemer-Hastings - Steelband Bass player receives Palmer Family scholarship

Daily Chroicle

Sycamore, Illinois, USA – Jesse Wiemer-Hastings, a graduate of DeKalb High School, is the recipient of the 2020 Palmer Family Music Education Scholarship award.

Historically, the scholarship recipient is honored at the first DeKalb M

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Rebecca – A Carnival Symphony

Global -  Rebecca – A Carnival Symphony

Listening to Desperadoes perform Clive Bradley’s arrangement of “Rebecca” never gets stale. The opening statement continues to capture the soul. That spellbinding run at the end of the introduction is always ex

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FIERY PROTESTS ACROSS PORT-OF-SPAIN [BLACK LIVES DOH MATTER WHEN BLACK POLICE SHOOT DOWN BLACK PEOPLE ... NO MONEY IN THAT]

Guardian Right Now

Fiery protests in and around Port-of-Spain this morning, as east Port-of-Spain, Laventille, Morvant and Beetham residents call for the intervention of the National Security Minister and the Commissioner of Police following the sho

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The new Carnival: Stakeholders make changes for post-covid19

Newsday - 

Melissa Doughty

A BPTT Renegades pannist during the band's 2020 Panorama final performance at Queen's Park Savannah, Port of Spain on February 22. PHOTO BY WARREN LE PLATTE. -

The covid19 pandemic has brought many challenges across the Ca

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BLM debate: Not always black and white in TRINIDAD and TOBAGO

Newsday June 14, 2020

"In TT, people define “black” differently. Some people believe black people are “anyone not white" (Caucasian) while others include people of Syrian/Lebanese descent in the “white” category. Some group both Afro-and Indo-Trinida

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North Kensington steel pan band giving virtual shows amid carnival cancellation

An award winning band has created a virtual Panyard to give performances during lockdown

The Metronomes Steel Orchestra has started a virtual Panyard to interact with the community from their homes (Image: Metronomes Steel Orchestra)

The cancellati

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Panmotion concerts to keep panists online

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Panmotion is the brainchild of Tobago panist Nevin Roach. He is also known for his Instagram pan competition, Panograma. -

He first brought Panograma, the Instagram pan competition held during the height of covid19 restric

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HURRICANE FLOYD

(painting by Dan Lacey)

HURRICANE FLOYD - a mytho-poetic reading of current events.
by Rubadiri Victor

For those of us who believe such things
the turning point was when,
in those last moments,
facing the inevitable,
George Floyd called upon his An

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EARL RICHARDS: How come EVERYBODY DOING SOMETHING to promote their product in these COVID TIMES except BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE and PAN TRINBAGO? And she does get about $25 MILLION every year from ROWLEY

Earl: Ah see ah BIG BIG COMEDY show coming up this weekend to raise funds for CHILDREN COVID VICTIMS. But still I cannot hear ONE WORD from BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE and PAN TRINBAGO. And of course you see how HEAVILY-INVOLVED  I am PROMOTING the  INTERN

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-STEELBAND REHEARSALS RESUME - Pan Trinbago

-STEELBAND REHEARSALS RESUME-

Dear Membership

After intervention by Mrs. Beverley Ramsey-Moore, President - Pan Trinbago, we are pleased to advise that steelbands can resume rehearsals following the strict protocols established by the government:

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PAN TRINBAGO has launched a SOCIAL PROSPERITY FUND (PAN DO NATION DRIVE)-- PLEASE MAKE A DONATION!!!

DONATE HERE

"Pan TrinBago Social Prosperity Fund is established to provide tangible support and empowerment programmes to vulnerable families, supporters, players and workers of steel pan community that are experiencing hardship. It is a unique, coll

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I am very intrigued as to how THE CARIBBEAN dodged the COVID VIRUS given the EXTREME DAMAGE it has done elsewhere ...

CUBA -- 77

HAITI -- 15

THE BAHAMAS -- 11

VENEZUELA -- 10

GUYANA -- 10

JAMAICA -- 9

TRINIDAD & TOBAGO -- 8

BARBADOS -- 7

COSTA RICA -- 7

NICARAGUA -- 5

ANTIGUA -- 3

BELIZE -- 2

SURINAME -- 1

Source

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Meet The Adjudicators - for INTERNATIONAL Pan Ramajay 2020

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2020 International Pan Ramajay - Duets Semi-Finals Results

Soloists  -  Duets
DUETS  -  Semi-Finals results
1st - 354	André White, Tristan Japsi – USA
2nd - 339	Kareem Thompson, DoMoJOAT – USA
3rd - 330	Cary Codrington, Keisha Codrington – Trinidad & Tobago
4th - 325	Khuent Rose, Jahlani Roberts –

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Pan art form could be lost, says veteran tuner

The Observer

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Meet Wilfred “Junior” Kieal - Panist, Percussionist & Administrator - Up-Close!

New York, USA - He is one of the most well-known and well-liked people in that ‘next generation’ of performing artists involved in the New York pan scene. Thoughtful, multi-talented and a natural-born percussionist with world-class abilities, he’s

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Brooklyn Carnival Still On??

WIADCA on New York carnival 2020

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GYPSY gets nod to replace Francis in Moruga [After running up 78 MILLION$$$ in debt in the NCC in two years -- Like Doctor Dolly going and lose she MINISTER OF CULTURE JOB]

Guardian May 20, 2020

"Yesterday, PNM Moruga officials said the executive had screened and approved Peters, whose nomination was submitted to them. He was the sole nominee. Their recommendation for him to be the candidate is being sent to Balisier H

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Amendments to the rules:-- International Pan Ramajay 2020

INTERNATIONAL

Amendments to the rules:

Amended 21st May, 2020

 

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