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Pan as icon: preserving, claiming, marketing (Part I)

By Dorbrene O’Marde

Before adding my contributions to this discussion on ‘Pan as Icon – preserving, claiming, marketing,’ let me be quick to acknowledge my limitations on this subject and give a view as to ‘where I am coming from.’

I am not a panman/

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ADDRESS TO THE NATION TONIGHT (By the PRIME MINISTER) on CNC3 at 7:30 PM tonight ...

... as you ALL KNOW, people does send me ALL KINDA TING to post. So I am making THIS POST and I want to make it QUITE CLEAR that these are NOT MY OPINIONS. This is just A DUTY that I am performing -- but THE MOTHER LAND is my FIRST LOVE so I have to

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Chiquinha Gonzaga - Women in Music

Chiquinha Gonzago established a career for herself as a professional musician in nineteenth century Brazil at a time when it was widely considered scandalous to do so. Gonzaga became Brazil's first professional female conductor and composed over

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Chairman: Despers will always be Laventille band

Desperadoes Steel Orchestra manager Dr Finbar Fletcher awaits the arrival of band members and supporters to start the band's victory motorcade at the Desperadoes panyard on Tragarete Road, Port of Spain on Sunday. - Vidya Thurab

It does not matter

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Music Festival makes sweeping changes

Paula Lindo - Newsday

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Jubilant members of the Scarborough Methodist Primary School after they won in the Primary Schools folk choir category in 2018. category. -

The 33rd Biennial TT Music Festival has made sweeping changes to its comp

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T&T gets first case of coronavirus COVID-19

Guardian March 12, 2020

"Min­is­ter of Health Ter­rance Deyals­ingh has con­firmed the first case of coro­n­avirus COVID-19 in Trinidad and To­ba­go."

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OBAMA warn TRUMP about a coming PANDEMIC -- TRUMP EH LISTEN!!!

Politico March 16, 2020

[bugs: make sure you read this!!!]

"Seven days before Donald Trump took office, his aides faced a major test: the rapid, global spread of a dangerous virus in cities like London and Seoul, one serious enough that some countrie

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CUBA USES 'WONDER DRUG' TO FIGHT CORONAVIRUS AROUND WORLD DESPITE U.S. SANCTIONS

BY TOM O'CONNOR - Newsday

Cuba has mobilized its medical corps around the world to distribute a new "wonder drug" that officials there say is capable of treating the new coronavirus despite the United States' strict sanctions that continue to pressur

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How long will New York’s coronavirus lockdown last? Could the "cure" become worse than the disease?

New York Post March 20, 2020

"The costs for some will be absolutely brutal: Lots of people are now concerned that they won’t be able to put food on the table after a week or two. Policymakers at all levels of government are grappling with how to put

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RonaFever -- A Khuent Rose Public Service Announcement

Required Listening - RonaFever 

I do this to ease the tension of our situation, not to ridicule those suffering-
whether from infection or hysteria. ...Khuent Rose

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Greenwood students learn steel drums with artist-in-residence

BY LAUREN OWENS Morning News

FLORENCE, S.C. — The sounds of steel drums can be heard from the music class at Greenwood Elementary School this week.

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Lebron James sued $150,000 for posting his own picture on Facebook - Pan and Mas take note

Novieku-Babatunde Adeola | Staff Writer - Face 2 Face AFRICA

Lebron James playing for the Lakers_Photo: HypeBeast

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Almost ONE MONTH after CARNIVAL 2020 and ZERO CASES of COMMUNITY SPREAD in Trinidad and Tobago!!!

51 CASES to date and ALL 51 CASES had a history of recent travel.

"The Ministry of Health confirms that all positive covid19 cases, thus far, have been imported."

QUITE INTRIGUING!!!

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Farewell to a legend

The Daily Observer

by Gemma Handy

It may not have been the send-off they envisaged but friends, family and the pan fraternity turned out on Thursday to bid farewell to late steelpan legend Eustace ‘Manning’ Henry who died earlier this month.

Attend

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Ingrid Blackwood-Belle: Yuh on LOCKDOWN in LONDON ... so come and make AH LIME with we TOMORROW!!!

Ingrid: YUH UNDER BORIS LOCKDOWN ... come and make ah lime tomorrow nah!!! Come leh we LIME as the PEOPLE SAY!!! Earl Richards like to MIND WE BUSINESS -- but yuh know that he WRONG AGAIN!!!

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Steelpan legend Eustace ‘Manning’ Henry remembered

Pan grandmaster, Eustace ‘Manning’ Henry who died on Monday

1 – Hell’s Gate at Panorama 2010 
2 – Hell’s Gate members burning steelpans back in the day
3 – Hell’s Gate performing in Montserrat some years ago
4 – Hell’s Gate will mark its 75^th anniversa

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A Royalty Riddle

By Terry Joseph
April 13, 2004

WHILE some members of the Copyright Organisation (COTT) are developing anxieties over what they described as "dwindling royalties", one of their colleagues took home $60,000 last year – by far the largest payout to a si

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Like TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO dodge the COVID-19 BULLET: 76 POSITIVES and 3 DEATHS ... barely NEWS

I am doing like DONALD TRUMP and declaring T&T safe from the VIRUS and able to go back to work by WEDNESDAY.

After all, we have BIGGER ECONOMIC PROBLEMS down there than COVID-19!!!

We DODGED A BULLET!!!

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Well it seems that DONALD TRUMP finally met HIS MATCH in a VIRUS ...

That WEDNESDAY MISFIRE could be the start of the FALL OF THE DONALD. The stock market will tell tale in the NEXT WEEK!!!

But the DEMOCRATS have their own INTERNAL PROBLEMS -- Bring back OBAMA or MOVE FORWARD!!!

I say: This is 2020 -- Let's MOVE FORWA

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Should Steel Orchestras like the Big 5 consider negotiating co-ownership of rights to Panorama arrangements?

The composer derives income from licensing the use of his compositions in performance, publication, and recording. If the orchestras are making (new music) the arrangements popular and desirable world wide, is not fair that a certain percentage of t

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