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Jonathan Scales Fourchestra wins award - for BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

We won an award last night for BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at Music Video Asheville! Huge thank you to Daniel Judson, the director for visually bringing my music to life. A big thanks to all the actors, musicans, & crew involved in making this short film ha

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Titan Steel Alumni Concert promises to heat up UW Oshkosh campus

A trailblazer who changed music education in the state of Wisconsin is returning to the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, where she introduced Caribbean music into the curriculum.

Jeannine Remy, founder of the UWO Steelband, will be a special guest Fr

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I think that if PAN TRINBAGO (and BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE) want to keep calling itself "THE WORLD GOVERNING BODY OF PAN" they should send an emissary on THIS FORUM to participtate and learn ...

... from this current DISCUSSION.

Of course, MARCUS ASH is the ONLY EXECUTIVE whom I think is capable of HOLDING HIS OWN (and leading) in this GLOBAL DISCUSSION on PAN.

But I know that SHE have ah VICE GRIP on all dem BIG MEN in the EXECUTIVE -- so i

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I am TOTALLY DEPRESSED!!! EXPATS all over the world are out here trying to GLOBALIZE PAN and STATE-APPOINTED DIPLOMATS went to AFRICA and subverted GLOBAL PAN PROGRESS -- FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE!!!

I am calling on BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE to hold a PRESS CONFERENCE and DIFFUSE this BOMBSHELL REPORT in her capacity as PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD GOVERNING BODY OF PAN!!!

All the WORK that all the THOUSANDS OF EXPATS have done PUSHING PAN AROUND THE WORLD

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Glenda Gamory the President of Pantonic Steel Orchestra has passed - May 9, 2019

When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family and friends of Glenda Gamory.

Glenda Gamory, as president of New York’s Pantonic Steel Orchestra was the first woman to lead a major orchestra to victory. 

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If we really want PAN PROGRESS -- WE MUST GET RID of BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE ... PRONTO!!!

EVERYTHING PAN has come to a SCREECHING HALT. All the BLIND and BACKWARD SUPPORTERS are still WAVING THE FLAG for BEVERLEY. But she is IN way over her head.

Do PAN PLAYERS really want to sit around and WASTE the next two and a half years fooling them

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Ambridge Steel Drum Band to play 30th-anniversary show

The Times --

AMBRIDGE — It has represented Ambridge in the Rose Bowl parade and warmed a crowd for Steven Spielberg in San Francisco.

The Ambridge Area High School Steel Drum Band has showcased its mood-lifting, Caribbean-seasoned music far and wide.

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Washington's new band director ready for spring shows

The Washington High School Steel Drum band will perform at 7:00pm May 22

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BEVERLEY: Mr. Bowei waiting quite in Africa for you to call him and set up the AFRICAN CONNECTION!!!

Every time ah read anything about PAN the authors always have to tell me about AFRICA being the ROOTS OF PAN. Now I am a TRINIDADIAN, eh. So I have a little different view on that.

But ah know that BEVERLEY and TOBAGO heavy into the AFRICA TING. So I

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Medium band Panorama may go to Tobago

Newsday

Pan Trinbago president Beverly Ramsey-Moore says moves are afoot to host the medium-band category of next year's Panorama competition in her native Tobago.

Ramsey-Moore told Sunday Newsday she met recently with Tobago House of Assembly (THA)

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New Philadelphia steel bands to host Panstock Festival

TimesReporter.com

New Philadelphia, Ohio, USA - The New Philadelphia steel bands will host the 10th annual Panstock Steel Band Festival at 7 p.m. April 27 in the New Philadelphia High School gym, 343 Ray Ave. NW.

Highlighting the performance this

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Blind pannist, ex-national footballer among Point honourees

Trinidad & Tobago Guardian

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - While Point Fortin may be the smallest Borough in Trinidad, hometown heroes like visually impaired panist Michael Toussaint and former national footballer Reynold Carrington have the world taking n

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Errol Zephyrine is alive & well

It's gives When Steel Talks great pleasure to announce that the reports of the passing of Errol Zephyrine were false

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Ah think ah have to give up this FUTILE PAN TING ...

Imagine I am 71 years-old and NEVER had a headache in my whole life, nor a stitch or broken bone or a day in the hospital.

But after I read that report from MR. BOWEI -- meh HEART start PALPITATING and ah START SWEATING and meh HAND START SHAKING and

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[bugs yuh right, boy; even under the highly educated DOCTOR DOLLY dey cyar keep balanced books] NCC owes $78m to service providers

Trinidad Guardian April 10, 2019

"The Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) has racked up a debt of $78 mil­lion in the last two years.

The rev­e­la­tion was made be­fore a Pub­lic Ac­counts Com­mit­tee meet­ing chaired by Dr Bhoe Tewarie, as they

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TT engineer to pay US$4m to Prince’s estate [This is the engineer who should be working on dem DIGITAL PAN TONES ah was talking about]

Newsday April 10th, 2019

A Grammy-winning mixing and recording engineer has been ordered to pay the late musician Prince’s estate US$4 million for releasing an unauthorised EP of Prince songs.

TT-born Ian Boxill was also ordered, said an April 9 BBC

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Iowa Steel Bands drumming into town

On Thursday night, the Iowa Steel Bands will perform a mixture of traditional and pop music on bowl-shaped, or steel, drums.

Thursday at 7:30 p.m., the Iowa Steel Bands will perform a selection of percussive steel drum pieces in Voxman.

“We will ha

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BIG PLANS to ELEVATE PAN in TOBAGO: Proposal discussed to move the NATIONAL MEDIUM BAND Panorama Semi-Finals to Tobago

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Big BACCHANAL with the TOBAGO JAZZ FESTIVAL: Dey pay Randy Glasgow Promotions $500,000 to promote TOBAGO JAZZ but we still eh know how much Beverley pay all dem advertising people to PROMOTE PANORAMA

THE Tobago Festivals Commission bypass a tendering process and pay Randy Glasgow Promotions $550,000 to market Tobago Jazz Experience 2019. And they give him an advance payment of $110,000.

That turn into a BIG BACCHANAL!!!

But the first thing that B

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Anglican Dean quotes MR KILLA ‘Pick up something and run’, like God's word

Newsday March 7th, 2017

SOCA champion Hollis "Mr Killa’s" Mapp's advice to “Pick up something and run with it” was adopted in an uplifting message by the Very Reverend Shelly-Ann Tenia in her Ash Wednesday sermon yesterday at the Holy Trinity Cathedr

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