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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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bugs: We have a FIRST ROUND TRINI DRAFT PICK in the NFL 2020 DRAFT ... I AM THRILLED!!!

Javon Kinlaw - DT

MOCK DRAFT

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Organiser: Raise standards of schools’ chutney soca music

Newday January 25, 2020

Chairman of the School’s Intellectual National Carnival Chutney Soca Monarch competition wants young people to bring change to the artform.

Dr Vijai Ramlal said the deliberate use of the word “intellectual” in the title of t

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The Business of Carnival™ YouTube Series announces season 3 launch!

OECS continues partnership with Entertainment and Sports Lawyer Carla Parris to demystify the legal and business aspects of carnival

Wednesday, January 15, 2020 — Trinidad and Tobago’s Carnival 2020 is here in all its glory with fetes underway, stee

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Notables visit Exodus panyard for Panorama 2020 season

President of Exodus Steel Orchestra, Ainsworth Mohammed | Archbishop of Port of Spain,His Grace Jason Gordon | Barbados Prime Minister,The Honourable Mia Mottley at Republic Bank Exodus Panyard

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Pan fund to take national instrument global

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ExxonMobil makes another deepwater oil discovery off Guyana

IRVING, Texas – ExxonMobil has increased its estimated recoverable resource base in Guyana to more than 8 Bboe and made its 16th discovery on the Stabroek block.

The new recoverable resource estimate includes 15 discoveries offshore Guyana through y

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YouTube signs three video stars to combat Amazon’s Twitch and fast-growing Facebook in game streaming

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Smart Bets: Jonathan Scales Fourchestra

by Edwin Arnaudin - Mountain Express

A New York City transplant since Halloween, former Asheville-based steel pannist Jonathan Scales is closing in on 13 years with his eponymous Fourchestra and continuing to expand his already impressive skill set.

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