I cannot believe that the organizers of THE INTERNATIONAL PAN RAMAJAY did not have the foresight to include ONE PAN MAN FROM GRENADA ...

Now, I am NO ADVOCATE for GRENADA -- especially to anyone who has ever read my comments on TRINIDAD POLITICS. But GRENADA is one of the islands that promoted PAN from early. And I think that at least TWO of their PAN PLAYERS should have been featured

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Beat the Pandemic The Alliance Concert Series

1 Show - 6 Performers and a dj for the after party
by BP Renegades

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THIS QUARTET (#6 -- Tristan Japsi, Kendall Williams, Marc Brooks, Edward Clarke - USA) is UNBEATABLE!!! NO GROUP from TRINIDAD COULD EVEN COME CLOSE -- especially with INTERNATIONAL MUSIC JUDGES!!!

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CECIL HINKSON: It look as if THE USA going and win ALL THREE CATEGORIES in this INTERNATIONAL PAN RAMAJAY, boy ...

And yuh girl KEISHA CODRINGTON has to SINGULARLY try to offset all that YANKEE TALENT.

It is safe to say now that THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is now THE MECCA OF THE STEELBAND.

Time for THE BEV to brave the COVID 19 and jump on a plane and head back

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PAN RAMAJAY 2020: QUARTETS TONIGHT!!! 8 TRINIDAD GROUPS and 2 USA!!!

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INTERNATIONAL PAN RAMAJAY: REGISTRATION IS FREE

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WELL DONE TEAM USA!!! by Sterling C Sample Sr

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I eh hearing ah word about the INTERNATIONAL PAN RAMAJAY -- is the show STILL ON?

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Ah did not even know that I picked a PAN PRODIGY when I singled out the performance of KOBIE ALLEYNE

Steel Pan Prodigy Kobie Alleyne receives Presidential Scholarship to Berklee College of Music

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I HAVE TO FEATURE ANOTHER USA PAN PLAYER: PATRICK FITZGIBBON!!!

BIO FROM TAPSPACE

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NOTA BENE (To all PAN RAMAJAY ENTRANTS): THE QUALITY of AUDIO and VIDEO may IMPACT the adjudication and therefore PARTICIPANTS are encouraged to ensure that YOUR RECORDING is of HIGH QUALITY!!!

Allyuh know that I been PUSHING for the PROPER RECORDING of THE INSTRUMENT for years now. So I am glad to see THIS STIPULATION. Now ah hear that they going and ANNOUNCE JUDGES TODAY. And I am hoping that they give me ah lil end in THIS SPECIFIC CATE

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TRISTAN JAPSI: One to watch in the "INTERNTIONAL" PAN RAMAJAY COMPETITION!!!

WHEN STEEL TALKS INTERVIEWS TRISTAN JAPSI

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I cannot believe that SALMON CUPID and SALAH WILSON and ANDRE DELLEVI and CECIL HINKSON spend all those DECADES in CANADA teaching and PROMOTING PAN and they failed to develop ONE STUDENT who ...

... was TALENTED and SELF-CONFIDENT enough to ENTER THE "INTERNATIONAL" PAN RAMAJAY COMPETITION.sponsored by THE EXODUS STEELBAND.

And after the GOVERNMENT OF CANADA spend so much money developing PAN IN SCHOOL PROGRAMS and the PEOPLE OF CANADA provi

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PAN IS ALIVE!!! INTERNATIONAL PAN RAMAJAY 2020 -- RULES AND REGULATIONS

RULES and REGULATIONS

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THE UNCONSCIOUS PAN TRINBAGO PRESIDENT: BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE ... clearly THE WORST PRESIDENT in the HISTORY OF PAN TRINBAGO

Many times on THIS FORUM I have talked about the ubiquity of FILM in TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO in these modern times. I am sure that I have put up more than 10 local films/documentaries over the years in support of that point. And, personally, I have looke

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INGRID BLACKWOOD-BELLE: The SADDEST PART of the INTERNATIONAL PAN RAMAJAY COMPETITION is that the VERY PEOPLE who were REJECTED in the LAST PAN TRINBAGO ELECTION are the SAME PEOPLE who are ...

... NOW PRODUCING the GREATEST GLOBAL PAN SHOW in THE HISTORY of STEELBAND MUSIC while BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE is IN TOBAGO spending ALL THE MONEY that PAN PLAYERS MONEY were supposed to be paid FOR PANORAMA -- on COSMETICS and CLOTHES.

And people wri

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I want to SING MY PRAISES to AINSWORTH MOHAMMED and EXODUS STEELBAND for TAKING PAN MUSIC GLOBAL with this INTERNATIONAL PAN RAMAJAY COMPETITION ...

THIS IS THE MOST BRILLIANT IDEA in THE HISTORY OF STEELBAND MUSIC as far as I am CONCERNED.

So I am ENCOURAGING ALL STEELBAND LOVERS GLOBAL to come to the AID of this PAN MUSIC PROJECT in whatever way YOU CAN ... ASK NOT WHAT PAN CAN DO FOR ME but W

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Could this be KITCHENER'S best MELODY ever? The first time I heard this song I heard it played on PAN ... and I was blown away by THE MELODY ...

Allyuh will never understand that I am not into THE PAN TING -- I am into the CALYPSO TING as was the LORD KITCHENER ... but even without the lyrics (which is my first love in calypso) this is quite a WICKED MELODY!!!

Anyway, I think that BEVERLEY RA

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Panograma final on Instagram tomorrow night [Beverley Ramsey-Moore is more like a voyeur ("I like to watch" -- Chance the Gardener) and NOT A LEADER]

Guardian May 2, 2020

"As was expected, pannists of T&T dominated Thursday night’s Panograma semi-final competition, held on the Instagram platform (@iNEV88).

Fifteen pannists from around the world contested the semi-final and, of the ten from T&T, s

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Do the TRINIDAD PAN PLAYERS really realize how FAR REMOVED they are from making GLOBAL PAN MUSIC?

I mean how TENS OF THOUSANDS of IMMIGRANTS/EXPATS play PAN IN AMERICA (which they have done for decades) and have not yet BROKEN THROUGH. But still the LOCAL PAN PLAYERS keep thinking that they have SO MUCH to OFFER to GLOBAL PAN MUSIC in terms of BR

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