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With all the PAN RESPECT I have for MERRYTONESTOTHEBONE -- the man really LET ME DOWN!!! Crying me down because I NEVER HEAR about MIKHAIL SALCEDO ,,, well I never hear about that PAN MAN and ...

... it seems like THE INTERNATIONAL JUDGES NEVER HEAR ABOUT HIM EITHER ...,

I coulda give that man SOME TIPS on presenting THE PAN GLOBALLY -- and I doh know NOTHING about MUSIC or PLAYING A PAN.

THIS PAN THING IS REAL HORRORS, YES!!!

TRINIDAD PAN ME

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Started by Claude Gonzales in Steelband Music
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PPP/C wins 2020 General and Regional Elections [After all these months and so much time I spent following this election -- I don't even know if I could believe THIS REPORT]

iNEWS GUYANA June 7, 2020

"The PPP/C has emerged the winner of March 2, 2020 General and Regional Elections following the national recount of the final ballot box (#4877) from Region 4 (Demerara-Mahaica) at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC) o

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Started by Claude Gonzales in Steelband Music
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CECIL HINKSON: While you and EARL RICHARDS and MERRYTONESTOTHEBONE and RUSSELL PROVIDENCE and BERTEL GITTENS are caught up in T&T PAN TRIVIA -- the rest of the GLOBAL PAN WORLD has left YOU ALL BEHIND

... now I did not START THAT SOCIAL MEDIA DISCUSSION, EH. It is the CURRENT LEADER in the INTERNATIONAL PAN RAMAJAY SOLOIST COMPETITION who brought that GLOBAL DISCUSSION to  my attention.

On the other hand ... that has been MY PRINCIPAL ARGUMENT FOR

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Started by Claude Gonzales in Steelband Music
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This JAPANESE WOMAN is so MUSICALLY SKILLED and she is part of the reason that TRINIDAD PAN PLAYERS are going to have a real hard time representing PAN, GLOBALLY. But her CULTURAL DIVIDE ...

... kept her away from RENDERING THIS SONG (in a more authentic manner). It is hard for someone outside THE CARIBBEAN CULTURE to capture the SOUL and NUANCE in a song like this. And that also happens to be a TWO-WAY street that TRINIDAD MUSICIANS are

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Started by Claude Gonzales in Steelband Music
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I would like to encourage RUSSELL PROVIDENCE or SALAH WILSON or bugs or some other knowledgeable PERSON in the WORLD of PAN to give a REVIEW on the INTERNATIONAL PAN RAMAJAY 2020 ...

I found only one article on the PAN PRODUCTION which was in NEWSDAY -- and that was basically a REPORT!!!

Well, I doh know nothing about PAN or MUSIC!!! But to me there were only two noteworthy performances. The first was an early round  performance

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Started by Claude Gonzales in Steelband Music
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I have to say at this point that THE "INTERNATIONAL" PAN RAMAJAY COMPETITION is looking more like a STEELBAND DIASPORA COMPETITION than an INTERNATIONAL PAN RAMAJAY COMPETITION ...

... which is ultimately not SURPRISING TO ME ... but a LITTLE DEPRESSING because it shows that PAN MUSIC is still a NOVELTY to the rest of the world.

Or maybe THE EXODUS ADMINISTRATION had TOO MUCH of an INSULAR VIEW in their approach to THE PROJECT.

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Started by Claude Gonzales in Steelband Music
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The background/accompanying musical tracks of the 5 new songs for the semi-final and final stages will be released on Wednesday 10th @10am AST -- so what are the SONGS?

Shouldn't  the listening audience be made aware of the songs so that they could become familiar with the ORIGINALS? Especially in a RAMAJAY; and where you have listeners from ALL OVER THE WORD!!!

Ah feel ah missing something here: I STAND TO BE CORRE

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Started by Claude Gonzales in Steelband Music
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THIS PAN THING is REAL KICKS, OUI!!! 8 years ago LIAM TEAGUE tell dem TRINIS that they are lacking "VOCABULARY" -- suddenly today everybody using the word "VOCABULARY" as if they just discover it ...

"They are hesitant to expand their respective musical vocabularies and, to a large extent, have become predictable."

Liam Teague 2012 WHEN STEEL TALKS

But, even so, even if you have THE VOCABULARY you still have to learn EXPRESSION!!!

8 years from no

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Started by Claude Gonzales in Steelband Music
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