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SO!!! Does PAN TRINBAGO have a NEW VICE PRESIDENT? What happened at the MEETING YESTERDAY? It looks as if I will have to MAKE UP an UNOFFICIAL REPORT ... GREGORY LINDSAY -- tell we something nah!!!

All I know is that the VEE PEE get accused of arranging for MORE THAN ONE BAND in the SAME COMPETITION while at the same time being on the PANORAMA MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE.

(Image it have over 300,000 PAN LOVERS -- LOCAL and FOREIGN -- who LOVE PAN and

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On MLK Day, A Place Where Music Does The Talking

Arts Council of Greater New Haven

 ...“We really wanted to focus on the music,” said Mandi Jackson, executive director of Music Haven. “We’re celebrating 10 years of collaboration of these organizations, but also the spirit of the day.”

The change f

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Ministry hands over steelpans to Port Mourant, Skeldon high schools

Guyana

Students of the Port Mourant Secondary School playing their new steelpans (Ministry of Education photo)

The Ministry of Education yesterday handed over steelpans to the Port Mourant Secondary School and the Skeldon High School in Region Six.

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Trio wants to put Potential pan at top

Trinidad Newsday

Carlan "Panman" Harewood, left, Amrit Samaroo and Kareem Brown, - Gary Cardinez

GARY CARDINEZ

THREE young professional music arrangers have come together to put the spotlight on a 54-year-old pan institution from San Juan/Barataria.

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How Music Copyright Lawsuits Are Scaring Away New Hits

The boom in copyright lawsuits is rattling the music industry — to the point where some artists and songwriters are spending tens of thousands of dollars on insurance policies

In the five years since a court ruled that “Blurred Lines” infringed on Ma

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If you can't see the need to RECALL THE BEVERLEY EXECUTIVE -- then you might as well agree to let them TIEF AH NEXT $60 MILLION ...

THE TRINIDAD STEELBAND COMMUNITY is POLITICALLY IMMATURE -- and they need to GROW UP FAST!!! That whole GIMME GIMME inculcation of HOLDING YOUR HAND OUT TO THE GOVERNMENT is a PROVEN FAILURE.

I mean, after ROWLEY and THE THA invest SIX MILLION in the

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After 57 Years of Panorama...

"The Chutney Soca Monarch will celebrate its 25th year as a Carnival calendar event in 2020,

In celebration of the milestone, producer George Singh announced that both the semi-final and grand final events would be gifted to the nation. Singh said th

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Audit: TUCO mismanaging taxpayers $$ [News but not REALLY NEWS]

Guardian January 25, 2020

The au­dit spanned three years—be­tween 2013-2016—and the fi­nal re­port was com­plet­ed in April 2018 and sub­mit­ted to the Min­istry of Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment, Cul­ture and Arts (MCD­CA) and Min­is­ter Dr Nyan Gads­b

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Two GOOD TOPICS on THIS FORUM TODAY that the LOCALS are NOT QUITE READY FOR ...

UNTIL PAN TRINBAGO and THE LOCALS wake up and JOIN FORCES with EXPATS -- PAN WILL JUST STAY PANORAMA!!!

Ah doh know WHAT IT WILL TAKE TO BRIDGE THAT GAP!!!

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5,000 arrive on cruise ships

Trinidad Newsday

Visitors from the MS Volendam cruise ship get scanned as they pass through the Scarborough Port on Friday. - DAVID REID

On Friday the Alpha Pan Pioneers Steel Orchestra welcomed visitors with a performance at the Scarborough Esplana

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Genesis Pan Groove tops small band semis

Gary Cardinez - Newsday

The Flag-Girl from Tobago Pan-Thers wows onlookers at the NLCB Panorama small band semi-finals on Saturday at Victoria Square, Port of Spain. - ROGER JACOB

La Horquetta Pan Groove, plays Trouble in the morning in the NLCB Pan

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Vanessa Headley arranges for 3 bands for Panorama 2020

Vanessa Headley

Vanessa Headley is making pan history by possibly being the first woman to arrange for three conventional Panorama steel bands in the small, medium and large categories in the same year.

Being somewhat of a pan pioneer is nothing new

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BWW Interview: Theatre Life with John Bell

Broadway World

by Elliot Lanes Jan. 6, 2020

Had you been playing any other instruments before you chose the piano?

I started the piano as soon as my hands were big enough to stretch across the keys (at about 6 years old). I studied the organ serious

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Ebony Steel Band: Pan Machine — the music of Kraftwerk arranged for steel pans

One of those rare musical recreations that sheds new light on the original works

England, U.K. - This looks like a novelty record.  There is a punning title (on The Man-Machine); a cover that mimics the original, with band members arranged on a sta

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Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra 2019–2020 Young Artist Winner, Panist Jonah Payne, in concert December 8, 2019

Jonah Payne, a junior percussion performance major, plays the steel pan inside of the Westbrook Music Building on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Photo by Jordan Opp

Lincoln, Nebraska, USA - Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra is proud to

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BEVERLEY AND HER SHEEP do not REALIZE THE COLOSSAL ERROR that she made with the NOVEMBER SINGLE PAN GAMBLE

They can try to BLUFF THEIR WAY THROUGH -- but they have NO IDEA.

I FEEL like I am SHOOTING FISH IN THE PROVERBIAL BARREL!!!

From the day she took office -- a PSYCHOLOGICAL WAR has been brewing ... and not just with me but with ALL HER OPPONENTS. No

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Calypso band gives Caribbean flair to holiday concert - Oregon, USA

The Observer 

Students who are part of the Elgin High School Calypso band prepare Tuesday during class for The Observer's upcoming Holiday Music Festival at Eastern Oregon University.

by Sabrina Thompson

Elgin, Oregon, USA — The sounds of Trinida

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GREGORY LINDSAY: Yuh primping and preening because they mention you in the GUARDIAN EDITORIAL ... meanwhile $25,000 missing from the EASTERN REGION ... yuh better focus and start investigating!!!

Gregory Lindsay: This eh NO TIME to be stroking yuh ego over some media publicity when TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS gone UNACCOUNTED FOR in the EASTERN REGION.

Get busy, man!!! We need to solve this case and PUT HANDCUFFS on the PERP!!!

The PAN SUPPO

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Ace pan arranger Duvone Stewart is calling for the national instrument to be mandatory in the school curriculum

Trinidad Newsday

Today, his wish remains “to see this instrument in all the schools as a compulsory instrument for students to learn music.”

“Funny enough, I have been a student at the Scarborough RC School… no pan, Scarborough Junior Secondary Schoo

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COPYRIGHT LIES & DECEIT Music Industry Failure in Trinidad and Tobago

Sunshina Today

His name is Sean Caruth and he is a writer/com­poser and performer from Trinidad and Tobago. He has disclosed to this newspaper his terrible experience with the Copy­right Music Organisation of T&T (COTT), “their ruthless practices and

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