Written by Seani B
OVER THE last few weeks, I’ve been talking to different people that make up the components of
Read more…By COLLEEN CURRAN Richmond Times-Dispatch
The Richmond Folk Festival has announced 12 more performers on tap for the three-day free music event held on Richmond’s riverfront in October.
In honor of the festival’s 15th anniversary, organizers will
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
Read more…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!!!
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…
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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…JAMAICA OBSERVER
August 20th, 2019
Grammy Award-winning artiste Shaggy is to join Trinidad and Tobago's Alison Hinds, Machel Montano, and evergreen Calypso Rose on Saturday's Island Beats' Super Concert in Port of Spain
Read more…Joan Rampersad - Newsday
Mass Trinidad All Stars.
MASSY Trinidad All Stars views the snub of pan on the Island Beats concert as “a slap in the face,” especially in Pan Month.
The concert lowers the curtain on Carifesta XIV on August 24 and is inten
Read more…Joan Rampersad - Newsday
Katzenjammers
DISAPPOINTED that steelpan music was not included in the Island Beats super concert to close Carifesta on Saturday, Pan Trinbago will be hosting it own super concert featuring some of the top bands in the land.
Read more…By Lucas Villa
“Yo x Ti, Tu x Mi” marks La Rosalía’s second time dabbling in música urbana this year following “Con Altura” with Colombian superstar J Balvin and her frequent collaborator El Guincho. Whereas “Con Altura” is an aggressive party anthe
Read more…UK National Steelband Panorama Competition 2019
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago Inc. T.C. will be celebrating the 27th Anniversary of the Declaration of the Steelpan as the National Instrument of the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago with a series of
Gary Cardinez - Newsday
The Academy Orchestra conducted by Jesus Acosta.
There was a sense of pride, joy and achievement among the participants of the Birdsong Academy’s Music Vacation Camp closing concert on Saturday evening at Queen’s Hall in St
Read more…
Beginning this year, August 11 will be celebrated globally as World Pan Day. This was announced last Sunday by Beverley Ramsey-Moore, new President of the governing body for steelbands in Trinidad and Tobago, Pan Trinbago. She was speaking at the Pa
Read more…Evening Standard
London, England - It all started back in January 1959. Claudia Jones, a Trinidadian human rights activist, organised a Caribbean Carnival at St. Pancras Town Hall in London – a celebration of West Indian culture that was televised b
Read more…
