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Feeling it at Shell Invaders lime

Gary Cardinez

Shell Invaders entertains guests at sponsors night, Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain last Tuesday. - Gary Cardinez

The car park at the Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain was transformed into an oasis by master designer Brian Mac Farlane

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‘Bago Bands Eye History Too

NGC Steel Xplosion members perform at THA Pan Champs last week at the Dwight Yorke Stadium, Bacolet. The band will be in action on Sunday in the National Panorama medium band finals at the same venue. - David Reid

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Anticipat

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Protecting pans, promoting TT

TT's coat of arms on a pan case cover. -

Jennifer Moore always assumed going into business was a simple thing.

“I thought it was just a matter of making something, selling it and putting the money in the bank.”

Now 25 years into the business of mak

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Region Eight secondary school presented with steel pans

Minister Nicolette Henry (second from left) hands over the steel pans to Regional Education Officer of Region Eight, Penelope McIntosh and a teacher of the Mahdia Secondary School. (Ministry of Education photo)

Guyana - Stabroak News

The Minister o

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Terri Lyons is the new Calypso Monarch

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Ah want to tell EVERYBODY on THIS FORUM something: If STEELBAND want to play JAZZ or SALSA or SAMBA or CLASSICAL or R&B or COUNTRY or BLUES -- I eh have NOTHING TO SAY ABOUT THAT, but ...

... when a STEELBAND decides to PLAY A CALYPSO -- is few men left in THIS WORLD who brave enough to walk down a DARK ALLEY with me AFTER MIDNIGHT and argue CALYPSO!!!

I eh come to TRINIDAD on NO BOAT and I see myself as a BORN AND BRED TRINIDAD NATIO

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Dwight Yorke Stadium - Tobago

Location	Bacolet, Scarborough, Trinidad and Tobago
Owner	Government of Trinidad and Tobago
Operator	Ministry of Sports
Capacity	7,500
Surface	Grass
Opened	2001

The Dwight Yorke Stadium, located in Bacolet, Scarborough, Tobago, (Trinidad an

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Sando Mayor: Pan Elders will come back stronger

Newsday - Yvonne Webb

Members of Pan Elders enjoy themselves during the steelband's performance at the semifinals of the medium band category of the Panorama competition at the Queen's Park Savannah on February 9. - Warren Le Platte

Couva Joylanders

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The connection between musical rhythms and how we play

By Shaun Fuentes

(published with the expressed permission of the author - Shaun Fuentes (pictured))

What sim­i­lar­i­ties are there be­tween T&T and Brazil, if any? The first thing that comes to mind is Carnival.

Like Brazil, we are a coun­try in­

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'Awesome' pan final

COREY CONNELLY

Potential Symphony placed second at Panorama medium band final at Dwight Yorke Stadium last Sunday. - David Reid

AWESOME.

This was how Pan Trinbago president Beverly Ramsey-Moore on Monday described Tobago's historic hosting of the N

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NOTHING BUT CORRUPTION IN PAN TRINBAGO!!!

Not only is DESPERADOES going to get  a new PAN YARD in TOWN (after the  PNM spent MILLIONS rebuilding their PAN YARD up the hill in LAVENTILLE that was then overun by their own CRIMINAL ELEMENT) -- but they also gave them FIRST PLACE in the PANORAMA

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‘Spicey’ kaiso blows for Gadsby-Dolly

Michael Mondezie - Feb, 1, 2020

Trinidad Express

licks: Minister of Community Development, Culture and the Arts Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly.

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Calypsonian Spicey (Tammico Moore) took Minister of Community Development, Culture and

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PANIST FROM VIRGINA USA, ON VISIT TO SKIFFLE STEELBAND, SAN FERNANDO

by Hollis Clifton

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Well BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE (and now DANE GULSTON) are running around talking about "SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION" through the PAN YARDS but 11 MURDERS ...

... took place ON SUNDAY while all the pan was beating in the SAVANNAH GRASS. I am sure that there are more ACTIVE GANG MEMBERS in TRINIDAD right now than ACTIVE PAN PLAYERS.

So the PRESIDENT and the ERO should back off that POLITICAL MISREPRESENTATI

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Very INTERESTING COMMENTARY by BENJAI on SOCA MONARCH ...

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Revolution, mas and pan

Dara Healy

IT WOULD not be an exaggeration to say that Kitchener’s music ruled the road. Apart from winning the Road March five times in the 1970s, his calypsoes were played by the winning Panorama large bands seven times.

From Margie to Play Mas, Tr

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What steel bands can teach us about goals, leadership and teamwork

Dennise Demming - wired868

Photo: The Marsicans Steel Orchestra beat a tune.
(Courtesy Annalicia Caruth/Wired868)

I have been mulling over the lessons of the panyard experience and continue to feel that the panyards are on to some yet unexplored manag

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Cailen carries on pan tradition

TYRELL GITTENS - Newsday

- ANGELO_MARCELLE

PLAYING the steelpan connects Cailen Gill to his family's musical history and their contribution to pan music.

Cailen is the grandson of Merline Gill, who has arranged in 40 Panorama competitions and start

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London Is the Place for Me: The Music of Young Black London, Vols 7 & 8 review – joyous blends

 Exuberance … Trinidadian calypsonian Aldwyn Roberts, AKA Lord Kitchener. Photograph: Ron Burton/Getty Images

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Trouble in the Evening

Trouble in the Evening

I begin this tale from Trinidad, my wife Adiylah and I had just returned to Canada, from Trinidad mid-January 2020. We were on an extended 7 week trip to Trinidad. My mother celebrated her 101^st birthday on December 1^st, 2019.

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