10 MONTHS now I am calling for the FIRING of the ERO of PAN TRINBAGO and BEVERLEY will NOT LISTEN TO ME -- so ah have ah NEW STRATEGY!!!

I am offering my services (FOR FREE) as a MENTOR to the current ERO.

Now BEVERLEY has to sign off on that and I know that it will be hard for her to TAKE ADVICE from ME.

But NOTHING eh working in PAN TRINBAGO -- besides CHAOS!!!

And since I have the

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Every time i see somebody DEMONSTRATING an E-PAN I see them using their FINGERS to PLAY ... so is it a PAN or KEYBOARD in disguise or some other kind of GIZMO?

... but I would like to see a 6-MAN E-PAN BAND (plus ONE REAL TENOR PAN) touring the world and playing the E-PANS with PAN STICKS!!!

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When the NY Panorama audio engineer turns all the steelbands' music into noise and the host still says she is hearing sweet pan music...

Everyone is in agreement that sound at the 2019 NY Panorama was terrible.  That's nothing new. It's always awful. The sound coming through the streaming broadcast was awful too. It doesn't sound like any NY steelband I have ever heard. Yet the broadc

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Doh mind allyuh!!! Meh PRESIDENT going and give a BIG LECTURE on "The Steelpan Development and It's Impact on Communities".

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CECIL HINKSON: Yuh real set me up!!! Yuh make me come on THIS FORUM to fight for PAN PROGRESS and then yuh abandon me and gone TRIVIAL ...

Cecil: How yuh could do that to me? Yuh know that I am not in the PAN TING because I think that PAN MUSIC is NOISE -- except when ANDY NARELL is PLAYING THE PAN.

So now yuh abandon me and gone TRIVIAL and you have RUSSELL PROVIDENCE terrorizing me!!!

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I am proposing that MARCUS ASH and BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE hire CECIL HINKSON as the ERO of PAN TRINBAGO ...

I have met a LOT OF PEOPLE who REALLY LOVE PAN; but I think that CECIL HINKSON might just be one of the GREATEST PAN LOVERS in THE WORLD. And the man has LIVED in FOREIGN and SUPPORTED PAN for DECADES.

So I think that he is well positioned to be THE

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TALES OF TURMOIL IN THE PAN TRINBAGO EXECUTIVE

While THOUSANDS of PAN PEOPLE from around the PAN WORLD ( I have to SUBTRACT Valentine Young from that list -- he is an INDEPENDENT THINKER) continue to blindly support BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE ... unconfirmed reports are leaking out that there is an IN

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So if KENDALL WILLIAMS could only MAKE 5TH in NEW YORK -- Why is he going to TRINIDAD and especially TOBAGO for PANORAMA!!!

I am advising KENDALL WILLIAMS to skip the trip to 2020 PANORAMA down in T&T and give himself some more UPSIDE by staying in NEW YORK and producing a GLOBAL QUALITY PAN ALBUM.

He already been down to TRINIDAD and captured the MUSICAL VIBRATIONS of th

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CECIL HINKSON: Ah never see so much PAN ON TRUCK in meh life ...

... and I just LOVE the FADING SOUNDS of the INSTRUMENTS as the TRUCK drives them OFF STAGE!!!

Who win NEW YORK PANORAMA? Ah hope is KENDALL WILLIAMS!!!

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A little LONG TIME PAN from RAY HOLMAN!!! THE INSTRUMENT come a LONG WAY that is why we should be IN THE STUDIO with PANS OF TODAY ...

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HOT-TING HILL Revellers soak up the sunshine at hottest Notting Hill Carnival in history

Nika ShakhnazarovaAletha Adu - The Scotish Sun

The streets along the route in west London were awash with colour as hundreds of thousands of partygoers enjoyed the beginning of the long-standing celebration of Caribbean heritage in the capital.

They

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‘BIG 5’ to honour NEVILLE JULES ... Third edition steelband concert!!!

TRINIDAD EXPRESS August 29, 2019

"The International Steelband Foundation’s “Big 5—The Steelband Concert 3rd Edition”, brings together WITCO Desperadoes, Massy Trinidad All Stars, BP Renegades, HADCO Phase II and Republic Bank Exodus. The much-antici

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Ah have to DEFEND meh pardner CECIL HINKSON. A GIZMO is any DEVICE that gets the JOB DONE ...

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So the NEXT STEP for THE WORLD STEELPAN DAY is to secure the domain name (www.worldsteelpanday.org) and set up the website and then appoint a BOARD OF DIRECTORS ...

... they could follow this model set by https://weteachpan.org/about/ making GLOBAL OUTREACH a very simple process. But they need to have a SKILLED ADMINISTRATOR to handle CONTACTS from the outside.

The BOARD OF DIRECTORS should include SIMEON SANDIF

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TOMORROW (August 11th, 2019) promises to be an HISTORIC DAY for STEELBAND MUSIC as the WORLD STEELPAN DAY is launched. I applaud the efforts of BERTEL GITTENS and SIMEON SANDIFORD!!!

At 11 a.m. tomorrow (August 11th, 2019) the WORLD STEELPAN DAY is going to be LAUNCHED at the PAN TRINBAGO HEADQUARTERS in PORT OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD.

The function would be a simple one. 

Bertel Gittens, as the Chair, would give opening remarks and welc

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There are THREE MAJOR TIDES churning PAN in the OCEAN OF MUSIC around the world right now ...

1. PAN (the instrument) keeps gaining more and more POPULARITY around THE WORLD!!!

2. More and more RECORDING ARTISTES around THE WORLD are choosing to integrate PAN into their music PRODUCTIONS.

3. THE TECHNOLOGY to synthesize PAN TONES is improving

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Ah really like the idea of the GLOBAL PAN DAY conceived by BERTEL GITTENS. Check out the UN ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL DAYS list.

This could be a BIG STEP for PAN to join this illustrious list!!!

Annual International Days

List of the official annual international days, that are observed or declared by the United Nations.

Source:http://www.un.org/en/sections/observances/interna

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I had to go to TV6 NEWS to find out about the "WORLD STEELPAN DAY" launching -- Lord have MERCY!!!

WORLD STEELPAN DAY LAUNCH

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SOLIDARITY PAN CONCERT

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"WORLD STEELPAN DAY PRESENTATION" by MR. SIMEON L. SANDIFORD

World Steelpan Day Invokes Manufacturing & Education

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