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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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Steel Pans: The Sounds Of Notting Hill Carnival

Written by Seani B

OVER THE last few weeks, I’ve been talking to different people that make up the components of

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Steel drums, Native American dancers & new styles of music headed to 15th annual Richmond Folk Festival

By COLLEEN CURRAN Richmond Times-Dispatch

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South Philly school receives grant for LiveConnections percussion ensemble

LiveConnections, which is based at World Cafe Live, reaches thousands of students each year through several programs. One of its in-school workshops is returning to F. Amedee Bregy School in September. (Grace Maiorano/SPR)

Robinson immersed into mus

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PAN LOVERS have to LEARN to MOVE BEYOND SENTIMENT ... that is THE LESSON that DOCTOR DOLLY is TRYING TO TEACH!!!

But PAN LOVERS are STUCK IN THE SIXTIES -- and with a "LEADER" like BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE ... ALLYUH SURE TO GET LEFT BEHIND.

How could TOBAGO be LEADING TRINIDAD?

Ah so GLAD that DOCTOR DOLLY wake up and DRAW THE LINE!!!

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‘We have been faithful’ Pan Trinbago head hits Carifesta snub

PAN TRINBAGO president Beverly Ramsey-Moore has hit the Ministry of Community Development, Culture and the Arts for leaving the national instrument out of the Caribbean Festival of Arts (Carifesta) which this country is currently hosting.

Speaking ye

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PRESENTING: KASSAV!!!

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‘The Great Hack’ explores the dark side of big data

Thinking about finally getting off of Facebook? The Great Hack, a new documentary on Netflix, might just be the push you were looking for. At the very least, you’ll probably never take another online personality test. It’s meant to scare and influenc

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From ONE GROUND ZERO OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION to ANOTHER ... I don't know how come I was born into that KINDA KARMA!!!

In the middle to late SIXTIES in TRINIDAD, I lived in a GROUND ZERO of ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. Witnessed it FIRST HAND. So all that crime in TRINIDAD TODAY -- is no surprise to me.

But as if that was NOT ENOUGH, I end up moving to the SAN FRANCISCO BAY

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Notting Hill Carnival 2019: Parade route, dates, times and everything you need to know

One of the biggest events of the year is back this month, with two million people taking to west London for Notting Hill Carnival.

It's the largest street party in Europe, celebrating Caribbean culture with stunning parades, calypso music, steel ban

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Carnival favourite Pepe Francis talks about hanging out with royalty and how his steel band keeps kids out of trouble

by Simon Gage

Pepe, who is also from Trinidad, which he left nearly 50 years ago, is the figurehead of Ebony, a band he originated with two friends in a yard in 1969, and which is now the Coldplay, Spice Girls, Beyoncé and One Direction of steel ban

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Why State must hold on to TTT

Arthur Dash - Trinidad Newsday

I wondered whether TUCO would be able to afford live broadcasts when the private owner calls his price.

Witness what is happening to our calypso tents. Would we ever see the steelband Panorama live again and whether Pa

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