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THE EDITOR: Are writers of original musical compositions approached by pan arrangers to rearrange their original compositions? If so, are composers compensated from the prize monies won from the Panorama competition?
Customarily, steel pan arr
Read more…... pick the NEXT PIONEER who is at the end of HIS JOURNEY and HONOR THE MAN while he is STILL ALIVE. Don't wait until THE MAN IS DEAD to suddenly wake up to HIS CONTRIBUTIONS and LOVE THEM TO DEATH!!!
EVEN HELP OUT!!!
I could call names -- but I don
Read more…Royal Caribbean is quietly testing a brand new family activity that could be coming to a cruise ship near you soon.
The Steel Pan Family Jam is being tested on select ships, that allows families to learn how to play the steel d
Priceton Alumni
Calypso music of Trinidad and Tobago was in the air as the PRINCETON UNIVERSITY STEEL BAND performed in concert Dec. 11. The event was the culmination of MUS 231, a course that instructor Josh Quillen said al
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Everyone has got Panorama fever. Including the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago who was seen in his favorite band, Invaders Steel Orchestra. The Prime Minister helped push bass pans on to stage and s
Read more…"February 3, 2020: Guyana’s Stabroek license – one of the world’s biggest oil finds in years – will cause the country to lose out on up to US$55 billion, according to a new Global Witness investigation based on an OpenOil analysis. Global Witness cal
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This flag woman kept the tempo going for the Desperadoes steel orchestra at Tragarete Road. - GARY CARDINEZ
The preliminary round of the national Panorama competition large band category in the Northern Region on Sunday turn
Read more…Guardian February 11, 2020
A new rule enforced by the Trinbago Unified Calypsonians’ Organisation (TUCO) which disallows calypsonians from singing a new rendition in the finals of the Calypso Monarch competition is not sit
Read more…Los Angeles Times February 14, 2020
"How did one Southern California company end up monopolizing the global market for blank lacquer discs? What happens now that it’s out of commission? From an environmental perspective, can such a facility even exi
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Pan pioneer Neville Jules. -
The Mighty Sparrow sang many years ago:
Every year somebody dear
Give us cause to shed a tear
And mourn for they are gone
Now all that's left is a faint memory
Based on the theme of a strange melody
Sti
Read more…The legendary Pan pioneer, panist and performing artist Hugh Borde has passed.
BC Pires
THANK GOD IT’S FRIDAY
PAN IN THE Savannah Sunday – which Y’Boy know is really “semis” nowadays but which Y’Boy, becaw he in this pan thing long-long-long, doesn’t can think about excepting as “prelims” – and Y’Boy walking by h
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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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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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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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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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