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Cecil Hinkson, why are you passing YOUR PAN RESPONSIBILITY to:" ... those who run the pan movement in the Mecca"?

You and EARL RICHARDS and BERTEL GITTENS and BOOGSIE SHARPE and DUVONE STEWART and VALENTINE YOUNG put BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE in POWER in PAN TRINBAGO -- fully knowing that she was INEPT and INCAPABLE of MOVING PAN FORWARD.

And now you are coming on h

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People asking: Where is THE PRESIDENT of PAN TRINBAGO? After THE TRINIDAD PAN PLAYERS got embarrassed on the GLOBAL MUSIC STAGE you would think that THE PRESIDENT would come out and SAY SOMETHING ...

... of course she CANNOT DO SOMETHING FOR PAN with dem THREE MAN RAT in the EXECUTIVE fighting THE LADY down. Ah hear that she doh even want to come back to TRINIDAD to have to deal with them THREE REBELS. Is only pride will bring her back to ride ou

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This is THE GREATEST PANORAMA ARRANGEMENT that I ever heard -- it CAPTURES the MUSICAL SOUL of the island. ANDY NARELL is the only other MUSICIAN to do that ... but he did with an ORIGINAL COMPOSITION

Of course, being a CALYPSO LOVER I would have appreciated a little MORE CALYPSO in my CALYPSO but understanding the STATE OF MIND that BRADLEY was in at the time -- I will continue to give it the NUMBER ONE RATING!!!

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We REAL BACKWARD, YES!!! People thinking that because a PAN PLAYER learn to read and write music -- that could make him a GLOBAL PERFORMING ARTISTE ...

ANDY NARELL said that after he GRADUATED with his MUSIC DEGREE from UC BERKELEY -- that is when he started to LEARN ABOUT MUSIC -- entering the PRACTICAL FIELD in THE REAL MUSIC WORLD!!!

GO LOOK IT UP!!!

Ah think the term is MUSIC FOUNDATION!!!

So I

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A little PAN NOSTALGIA on WORLD STEELPAN DAY: THE HAPPY WANDERER

I remember standing on the side of the EASTERN MAIN ROAD IN TUNAPUNA watching and listening to SUNLAND STEELBAND play this tune on the ROAD CARNIVAL DAY with all the BAD JOHNS in their FULL GLORY.

DALGO, JOE DOG, RED KEN, MASTIFAY ... PAN COME A LONG

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Steel Pan In Guyana – How It All Began ... [Today, no country in the world is better positioned to develop the Art Form GLOBALLY than GUYANA]

"In 2008, Guyana got the opportunity to host Carifesta. This event led the government to resuscitate the art form through the mass procurement of instruments and the formation of a 100-piece National Steel Orchestra for Carifesta X. It also led to th

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Mohamed Ifraan Ali declared President [of GUYANA] by GECOM Chairperson [FINALLY!!! PAN READY TO PROGRESS IN GUYANA]

Kaieteur Falls News August 2, 2020

"Presidential candidate of the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C), Mohamed Irfaan Ali has been declared President of Guyana by the Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Justice (ret’d) Claud

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Today is WORLD STEELPAN DAY -- but like THAT WORLD is only 1,981 mi²

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SHARMAIN BABOOLAL -- SHE START A BACCHANAL

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I could have a ONE MINUTE CONVERSATION with KEISHA CODRINGTON and improve her score by 15 to 20 POINTS ... so I am TOTALLY CONFUSED!!!

You have all these MUSICAL GENIUSES down in TRINIDAD and NOBODY was able (willing?) to pull her aside and point out her OBVIOUS WEAKNESS as a PAN SOLOIST.

And remember: I doh know NOTHING ABOUT PAN OR PAN MUSIC or ANY KIND AH MUSIC!!!.

At the same ti

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I am intrigued by KHUENT ROSE and I want to know if he was BORN IN TRINIDAD or if he is a FIRST GENERATION TRINI-YANKEE

Ah want to put MY GLOBAL MUSIC EGGS in KHUENT ROSE BASKET but I have to sort out a few things about his SPHERE OF INFLUENCE (well, more like early music influences) as early childhood impressions poured into his MUSIC PSYCHE.

(I have had a fascinatio

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ANTIGUAN PANNIST grabs number two spot in International Pan Competition

THE OBSERVER June 29th, 2020

"Antigua and Barbuda's very own Khan Cordice emerged as the second place winner of the International Pan Competition known as PAN RAMAJAY."

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Now that the competition is over, I would suggest to the TRINIDAD SOLOI

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To add INSULT to TRINI PAN INJURY: bugs say that it have ah whole CROP of YOUNG NY PAN PLAYERS getting ready to JOIN the WORLD GOVERNING BODY PAN RAMAJAY CHAMPIONS now based in NY ...

Now CECIL HINKSON and bugs did warn meh about this SEISMIC SHIFT in PAN TALENT, but I never take them seriously. Because I have always been told that ALL THE BEST PAN TALENT IN THE WORLD resided in TRINDAD.

But after YESTERDAY ah have to RETHINK this

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Or as BLACK STALIN SAY, we might wake up ONE DAY and hear that Steelband come from the UNITED STATES KINGDOM ... Brooklyn done start already producing PAN PRODIGY -- to MANUFACTURE we OWN CULTURE ...

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EARL RICHARDS: If they wanted an ENTRANT from LONDON (ENGLAND) or CANADA -- all they had to do was to SEND ME AN EMAIL or come on WST -- I have ah GIRLFRIEND in LONDON and a BOYFRIEND in CANADA ...

... and I COULDA HOOK THEM UP!!!

I coulda call up BOTH AH DEM and PUT THEM ON THE HUNT and we could have had 5 BRITS and 5 CANADIANS in the INTERNATIONAL PAN RAMAJAY. So I don't want NO EXCUSES from THE EXODUS BRASS!!!

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I have a NEW RESPECT for ANDRE WHITE!!! With a BIG NAME like HIS -- he took the risk to enter in ALL THREE CATEGORIES ... THAT MAN REALLY LOVE GLOBAL PAN PROGRESS!!!

DEM LOCALS cannot even understand the "G" in Globalizing PAN MUSIC!!! Much less the rest of the letters!!!

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DEY CYAR MAMAGUY AH BIG MAN!!! SALAH WILSON (MY COUSIN) spent his whole adult life in CANADA teaching and promoting PAN with all kinds of MUSIC ACADEMY --you mean to tell me that EXODUS ...

... could not CALL UP SALAH WILSON and tell him (DEMAND OF HIM) that CANADA come up with TWO ENTRANTS in this INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA?

Like dem YOUNG PEOPLE who take over EXODUS and think that they understand the GLOBAL PAN TING step on ah banana pee

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I estimated the VIEWING AUDIENCE between 850 and 900; it was a hell of a good show; CONGRATULATIONS to EXODUS STEELBAND and AINSWORTH MOHAMMED; THE TRINIS have A LOT OF WORK TO DO!!!

During the FACEBOOK LIVE and chat, TOP TRINIDAD PAN PEOPLE were swearing that TRINIDAD had won. So, clearly, they were hearing something completely different from THE INTERNATIONAL JUDGES.

In a recent posting, Merrytonestothebone said that the genre

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Well this 2020 INTERNATIONAL PAN RAMAJAY going and turn into a REAL BACCHANAL -- because the USA PLAYERS are MILES SUPERIOR to ALL OTHERS ...

... and I don't think that THE HOST COUNTRY could afford to give THE THREE FIRST PLACE PRIZES to these AMERICAN PAN PLAYERS ... that would be an embarrassment to THE MECCA OF THE STEELBAND.

But I have to be frank and say that the kind of MUSICAL EXPO

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Merrytonestothebone: Yuh make meh feel bad telling me that I never heard about the GREATEST PAN JAZZ PLAYER in the WORLD ... but when ah try to listen to YOUR SUPER STAR -- he break THE FIRST RULE ...

... IN RECORDING!!! So I could not even give him 10 SECONDS of serious consideration!!! Ah sure that the only reason that he in the SEMIS is because of TRINI BRAND NAME. But don't forget that EXODUS say that this is an INTERNATIONAL PAN RAMAJAY!!!

MI

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