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Prime Minster of Trinidad and Tobago - Dr. Keith Rowley supports his favorite band at Panorama 2020

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

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Guyana set to lose out on up to US$55 billion from exploitative Exxon deal

"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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Awaiting Road March Results viewing party!

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Pan pilgrimage for sweet music

GARY CARDINEZ - Newsday

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

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Senior calypsonians angered by TUCO’s new rule [Is CALYPSO going down the PAN TRINBAGO EXODUS ROAD?]

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

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How a fire in the Inland Empire could spell doom for the worldwide vinyl LP boom

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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Watch Live Stream - 2020 Calypso Fiesta

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Two pan stalwarts die this week

Joan Rampersad - 

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

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When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family and friends of Hugh Borde

The legendary Pan pioneer, panist and performing artist Hugh Borde has passed.

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Pan in a major minor

BC Pires  

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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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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