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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YEAH, MON!!! All up in ah JAMAICA dem ah talk about the CARIFESTA SUPER CONCERT. But dem nah talk about BEVERLEY SUPER PAN CONCERT at all ...

JAMAICA OBSERVER

August 20th, 2019

Top acts for CARIFESTA concert

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

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Now All Stars upset at Carifesta concert pan snub

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

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Pan hosts its own super concert

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.

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Rosalía and Ozuna Drop Steel Drum-Infused Reggaeton Banger “Yo x Ti, Tu x Mi”

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

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UK National Steelband Panorama Competition 2019

UK National Steelband Panorama Competition 2019

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Pan Trinbago Celebrates Pan Month in August

Pan Trinbago Celebrates Pan Month in August

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Birdsong campers show off skills

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

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World Pan Day to be Celebrated Annually

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

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Notting Hill Carnival: Executive Director Matthew Phillip on the festival's traditions and what to expect from this year

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

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Carifesta symposium hears "sweet soca promoting toxic behaviour" [This could be a real interesting discussion for LYRICS LOVERS!!!]

Trinidad Guardian

8/20/2019

"So­ca mu­sic has cre­at­ed re­in­force­ment of some neg­a­tive be­hav­iours in our so­ci­ety".

This was an ar­gu­ment put for­ward by Dr. Sueann Bar­ratt dur­ing the pan­el “Where we go­ing with So­ca? Eval­u­at­ing An Ar

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Trinidad & Tobago: A Rich History of Dance, Devotion and Demonstration

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The Higher Logic Project performs at Middletown Art Center Aug. 23

ELIZABETH LARSON - Lake County News

The Higher Logic Project. Courtesy photo.

The performance is the Higher Logic Project’s debut of it newest lineup which is bursting with flavor and harmony. 

“We have added a new drummer, keyboardist, guitarist,

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