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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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SONGS (CALYPSOS) WRITTEN by WINSFORD DEVINE -- PRAISE THE LIVING!!!

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Could ONE MARKET VENDOR have caused all of these DEATHS and GLOBAL ECONOMIC DISRUPTION?

They are pointing to a shrimp peddler as possibly PATIENT ZERO in the COVID-19 PANDEMIC.

She was the first person from the Huanan Market (China) to test positive for the deadly bug. And the date on which she first experienced symptoms from the diseas

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UM Islanders treat concertgoers to steel pan jams

Austin Amestoy / Montana Kaimin

The glistening steel pans quieted and their players bowed and left the stage, but thunderous applause and a standing ovation from an audience 200 strong brought the Islanders Steel Band back for one more song.

Satur

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Artist of the Year 2020: Instrumental music…

by Heide Janssen | Orange County Register

The following students have been named as nominees for the 2019 Artist of the Year in instrumental music. We received 117 nominations from teachers and private instructors at Orange County high schools and ar

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WST Continued Updates re: COVID-19 aka Coronavirus - China Steps Up and Donates to the United States

Jack Ma is the founder of China-based marketing giant Alibaba

Link to original Twitter post: 
https://twitter.com/foundation_ma/status/1238317660871393280/photo/1

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*** Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the Steel Pan Music Indust

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Guyana and Biden and Corona tie up meh head and ah almost forget about BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE and PAN TRINBAGO and all the FALSE PROMISES ...

How long that NEW PRO get appointed? And not a word yet from that MAN to PAN SUPPORTERS around the world. Dane Gulston is still the EXTERNAL RELATIONS OFFICER -- but he eh even lifting a finger INTERNALLY. We done hear the TREASURER is JUST A SHILL .

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Commonwealth says [GUYANA] final results not yet tabulated, urges stakeholders to ensure legal process followed

Stabroek News March 5, 2020 ... 30 minutes ago

"Amid mounting chaos in the verification of the election results for Region Four, the Head of the Commonwealth observer team, Owen Arthur  this evening said final results for the general elections have n

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[TRINIDAD] Govt closes all schools, universities for one week

Guardian March 13, 2020

Well ah DOH HAVE TO EXPRESS MEH OPINION ON THIS!!!

"Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has announced that from tomorrow all schools and universities and places of learning will remain close for one week in order to stop the sprea

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Former Panorama arranger: ‘South musicians have talent’

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Dr Jeannine Remy congratulates Jesse Jagnarine for placing first in the Steelpan Solo 21 Years and Under at the Music Festival at the Naparima Bowl in San Fernando.

Former Panorama arranger Dr Jeannine Remy’s appreciation

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REGION FOUR in UPROAR!!! RULING PARTY IN SHOCK!!! FOREIGN MINISTER loses it and threatens to take away ACCREDITATION from FOREIGN OBSERVERS ...

GRANGER allowed the PPP to get too much of a BIG LEAD on the OUTSIDE. So now his only chance to stay in POWER and SPEND THE OIL MONEY is to RIG THE VOTES in REGION FOUR. Ah cyar take the TENSION is too much to MENTION (ah wonder if ah have to pay ro

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