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Questions over delay in naming Internet Carnival rights bid winner

Companies vying for the right to broadcast Carnival 2014 via the Internet are questioning the National Carnival Commission’s (NCC) three-month delay in naming who has been awarded a bid. Writer, producer and director Danielle Dieffenthaller, in an in

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ARRANGERS THAT ARRANGING FOR THEIR ALTERNATE BANDS (MEDIUM/SMALL/PAN ROUND THE NECK) IS JUST A HUSTLE?

Do you think that Arrangers that arranging for their alternate bands (Medium/Small/ Pan round the neck) is just a Hustle or do you think they put their heart and soul like they do with their Main band? just asking!

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Party goes on at the Greens -- Pool Party For Pan - New $700 attraction for weekend’s ‘Savannah Party’

Trinidad Express Newspapers

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Patrons are paying as much as $700 to be a part of the “Pan Splash” posse, which is a new feature added to The Greens for this weekend’s Panorama semi-finals at the Queen’s Park Savannah in Port o

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Free admission to Panorama for youth on Saturday

Trinidad & Tobago Guardian

It’s time for Savannah Party

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It is the only competition on planet Earth that features over 2,000 musicians of percussive instruments on one stage. The eagerly awaited semifinals for large and med

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Poor support for single pan bands

Trinidad & Tobago Guardian

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - A small crowd of pan supporters showed up for the National Single Pan Panorama preliminaries at The Paddock, Queen’s Park Savannah, Port-of Spain, on Saturday. Twenty-eight of the 29 bands register

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$150M Debt - Pan Trinbago to share in $40 million "funding activities" balance

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Minister of the Arts and Multiculturalism Dr Lincoln Douglas will give $190 million to cover Carnival costs, but most of it, $150 million, will be used to pay debts incurred since 2010, he told ye

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Females shine at East Single Pan prelims

Trinidad Express Newspapers

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago’s National Steelband Panorama 2014 competition kicked off at the Arima Velodrome on Thursday night with the preliminary round for single pan bands in the eastern region.

Of the 21 ba

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SHIRLANE HENDRICKSON | EXCITEMENT | LYRICS

This song is played for the Trinidad Panorama competition by the following bands:

Redemption Sound Setters Steel Orchestra
Trinidad All Stars Steel Orchestra
Merrytones Steel Orchestra

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Trinidad & Tobago Panorama 2014 Schedule Overview and Beyond

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Three separate days have been allotted to Steel Orchestras in the Large Band category for Trinidad & Tobago’s 2014 National Panorama Preliminaries.

 

Tobago and Eastern Regions bands will be visited by the adjudicators on Mo

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Pre-carnival suggestions

2 friends and myself will be in Trinidad Feb 9 through 17 (traveling on the 8 and 18.) I have been before but my friends haven't. We all play pan and that will be our focus. Any suggestions on what we should try to see and do while there? Semis are f

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NAME THE PANORAMA TUNES IN THE YEARS GONE BY FROM 1963 TO 2013 THAT YOU WOULD CONSIDER A "CLASSIC"

I was saying to one of my comrades AL Nunes that my opinion is from 2001 to 2013 those tunes were not considered a Classic" in my Book, What do you think? If you ask people to hum most of those tunes between that time, they can't. 

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End of the Pan Tune era in panorama?

Is it  too early to ring the bell signaling the end of the pan tune's dominance in panorama? I have been looking at the selections of bands so far, and I am seeing some very interesting trends building from the last 2 years. Some of the songs that ba

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Panorama 2014 Single Pan Preliminaries On Track

Global - Seventy Single Pan Bands in four Regions will face panels of adjudicators when the 2014 National Panorama Single Pan Bands Preliminaries gets underway in two weeks’ time.  This means that sixty-nine bands will be attempting to dethrone the r

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MORE THAN A CHALLENGE

Hi Everyone,

I am compelled and not ashamed to reach out to the WST Universe 

I am looking for some players to support my little group in Trinidad.

Flamingoes. I need some of you WST members who will be going for the Panorama.prelims to come take a k

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"High Mas" How did this arrangement win Panorama?

"My main concern is setting this thing forward as an example to what can be done with this kind of music, what changes can be made and what kind of music can be acceptable."

Master arranger Clive Bradley....http://youtu.be/UrYA5-Pxclc

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WE KINDA MUSIC.

Ah doh want anyone telling meh that ah doh like Andy or that ah like to beat up on Andy because that's not true........ but........it look like Andy coming with same kind of music again this year, boi ah doh know what to say. I was hoping Andy come t

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The birdsong Experience

by Dr. Kenyon Williams

 

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - In the spring of 2012, Andy was invited by the band to come down and play in their June benefit concert at the National Academy for the Performing Arts (NAPA

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N.Y.P.D. = New York Pan Destruction

New York, USA - After reading Pantonic captain, Wayne Bernard’s, post about this topic, I felt the need to address the same issue. It’s no secret that the majority of the Brooklyn pan scene is comprised of young adults and teenagers who anxiously wai

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New York Steel Orchestras Catching Hell Three Days Before Panorama 2013

New York, USA - So while at work I’ve decided to write down the experience from the steelpan musicians’ and management perspective. Every year to get a band to the annual New York Panorama hosted by WIADCA (West Indian American Day Carnival Associati

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New York Panorama 2013.

Other than the drama around Steel Xplosion (who apparently are going to be allowed into the competition after all), there isn't much recent discussion about the panorama next week. The WST thread about it has sunk to the bottom. As I understand it he

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