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Steelpan for the digital age

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Johann Chuckaree's Indigisounds redefines the national instrument

Johann ChuckareeTrinidad & Tobago, W.I. - At the age of 29, Johann Chuckaree, runs different businesses and juggles that with a demanding performance schedule. His advice

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Mas on my mind

by Keith Subero

....The tragedy is that pan, the soul of Carnival, continues to disappear from our mas. It is being reduced to bastard-sister status in Carnival. After the Panorama competition, only a few bands appear on the streets on Jouvert mornin

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Act on North Park concerns

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Patrons attending the “Savannah party” on Sunday voiced generally negative reviews, judging from the responses carried in yesterday’s Express.

From the absence of seats for patrons, to apparently excessive exposure to the afternoon sunshine, to the

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Over $2m for unsponsored bands

Trinidad Newsday

UNSPONSORED steelbands received over $2 million from the Ministry of Community Development, Culture and the Arts last week. The bands collected their cheques at the ministry’s St Ann’s office.

In prior news reports, steelbands were s

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Teaching with empathy

Newsday -- TTUTA

In our classrooms we have children who will become proud professionals but there are also the dancers, athletes, tailors, artists, mechanics, pannists, and costume designers. But our education system has lost touch with a large secti

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