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Mangrove Steelband Makes It Title Ten In UK Panorama Triumph With Arranger André White - 2019 UK Panorama Results

London, United Kingdom - In almost a year to the day, Mangrove Steelband copped its tenth UK Panorama title on Saturday August 24, 2019. The sweetness of Savannah Grass (played by three of the six orchestras) as musically envisioned by champion arran

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Express Eight: Q&A with Truman Steel

By Jason Hunsicker

KIRKSVILLE – Each week this summer, the Daily Express will preview the upcoming Kirksville Arts Association Summer on the Square concert by interviewing the band. Concerts are 7 p.m. Friday on the Adair County Courthouse. Here is

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Salsa and steelpan -- Arranger, anthropologist honoured in Cuba

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Arranger, anthropologist honoured in Cuba

Cuba - His passion for pan has been identified as the primary motivation for ensuring that our Caribbean neighbours are fully equipped to enjoy the sounds of the the steelpan.

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‘Pan Sweet Pan... The Solidarity Concert’ by Pan Trinbago

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It’s Pan’s Super Concert!

“Pan Sweet Pan… The Solidarity Concert” is fourteen of Trinidad & Tobago’s topnotch steel orchestras rallying to Pan Trinbago’s call to showcase the national instrument on one stage while Carifest

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Congratulations to Mangrove Steelband and arranger André White - UK 2019 Panorama Champions

When Steel Talks extends congratulations to Mangrove Steelband and arranger André White - UK's  2019 Panorama Champions

1st - Mangrove - 284 points

2nd - Metronomes - 270 points

3rd - Ebony - 269 points

4th - Pan Nation - 263 points
5th - Croydon -

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Kitchener festival to celebrate African and Caribbean communities this weekend

A long-running festival will bring members of Kitchener-Waterloo's many diverse communities together to celebrate African and Caribbean culture this weekend.

Now in its 14th year, the annual LINK Picnic Festival is a two-day showcase of music, art,

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The passing of Lynette Gabriel

By Katie Segal  -- Soca News

Lyn, who came to the UK in 1956, has always been part of carnival. Her uncle was Sterling Betancourt, one of the Notting Hill Carnival’s steel pan pioneers, her dad a pannist and her mother a carnival queen. Lyn and Carl

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London - Notting Hill Carnival 2019: Organisers vow to celebrate London's diversity and commemorate Grenfell at annual event

Evening Standard - Ben Morgan

The director of the Notting Hill Carnival today said this weekend’s event will celebrate the diversity of London and commemorate Grenfell victims.

Organisers are in last-minute preparations for Europe’s biggest street p

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Bemoaning underachievement

Martin Daly

,,,Regarding merit, I have repeatedly pointed out, for example, that our disadvantaged communities comprise many persons of enormous scientific talent who invented and perfected and now maintain the steel drum. Its music now captivates t

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Gone But Not Forgotten: Pan Pioneers

Rare Film Clips by Ray Funk

 

            As part of the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival at Carifesta, Ray Funk will be presenting a celebration of Pan Pioneers  who have passed away. This free event will focus on Ellie Mannette, Kim Loy Wong, Clif

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Pan Trinbago vex with culture minister

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday 

-  Joan Rampersad

She dropped the ball on pan in Carifesta’

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly, Minister of Community Development, Culture and the Arts.

Pan Trinbago is most upset with Minister of Community

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Antigua & Barbuda Panorama 2019 Results - Hells Gate Steel Steel Orchestra Notches 21st Win - Champion Arranger Khan Cordice Makes It 8

St. John's, Antigua & Barbuda, W.I. - Seven bands took the stage, but eventually with eight performances overall for the country's 2019 national steelband Panorama competition, this event was definitely one for the record books... How about the same

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Charlie’s Records, Grace and Saleem TTFF People’s Choice winners

MUSIC documentary Charlie's Records, romance feature Grace and Saleem and touching short Sampson's Heart have won the People's Choice Awards for the recently concluded TT Film Festival (TTFF) 2019 Carifesta edition.

https://newsday.co.tt/2019/08/29/c

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Anthony Achong: “The Secrets of the Steelpan”

PANArt Publications de PANArt Hangbau SA

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Carroll County Public Schools celebrates ‘courageous conversations’ at Culture Expo

By CATALINA RIGHTER
CARROLL COUNTY TIMES

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Carnival Round-Up - UK 2019

London News Global Views

...The Notting Hill Carnival is rightly regarded as an institution in London. It’s the largest street party in Europe and second largest carnival in the world trailing only Rio de Janeiro. Over the coming Bank Holiday weeken

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Premier steel-pan tuner hits the right notes ahead of Cariwest Festival in Edmonton

Yahoo News

Edmonton's premier steel-pan orchestra has flown in the best of the best to take care of their instruments ahead of the Cariwest festival this weekend.

The TrinCan Steel Orchestra sought out Augustus Peters, a renowned steel-pan maker an

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That eh RIGHT!!! Seven criminal charges against MARLENE for ah lil MILLION$$$ and KEITH DIAZ and FORTEAU tief 60 MILLION DOLLARS from PAN TRINBAGO and dem RUNNING FREE ....

Trinidad Guardian August 11th, 2019

by ABRAHAM DIAZ

"Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion Min­is­ter Mar­lene Mc­Don­ald will face as many as sev­en crim­i­nal charges, in­clud­ing mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice, con­spir­a­cy to de­fraud and mon­ey laun­

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Conversations with Pioneers

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - “Conversations with the Pioneers” is the historical component in Pan Trinbago’s Pan Month calendar of events marking the anniversary of the declaration of the steelpan as the national music instrument of Trinidad & Tobago.

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Trinidad and Tobago’s National Instrument Undeserving of Carifesta Main Stage?

STORIES BY EBUZZTT

The Carifesta XIV experience being hosted in Trinidad and Tobago this year may have a bit of upheaval, this as Pantrinbago says the national instrument isn’t being treated with the respect it deserves.

Ace pannist Dane Gulston ha

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