RONALD LEWIS: Dem fellahs cussing yuh and disrespecting you on the TRIVIA SITE. Leave them and come on here, nah. Come and RAISE YUH HAN IF YUH WANT TO JAM ...

RONALD LEWIS: Yuh full of OPINIONS on PAN AND POLITICS!!! I am inviting you to GIVE UP THE TRIVIA and come and join some REAL DISCUSSIONS about PAN PROGRESS.

ALL AH WE IS ONE FAMILY!!!

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CECIL HINKSON: Ah need you to DEFEND ME, boy!!!

Cecil: Ah man from quite ARIMA call me and tell me that I RIDING ON RUSSELL PROVIDENCE COATTAILS with my ideas.

Could you believe that, CECIL!!!

Now I don't doubt that RUSSELL PROVIDENCE has the MOST INSIGHTS into PAN IN TRINIDAD.

But I never claimed

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A MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE: You need to set up a PILOT PROGRAM with a small RECORDING STUDIO in one of your PAN YARDS!!!

Now I would recommend a HIGH PROFILE PAN YARD like SILVER STARS. I know that we will immediately have our critics claiming that we are FAVOURING TOWN OVER COUNTRY -- but we eh have dem fellahs to study in these crucial times when THE WORLD is gravita

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Caribbean steel drum concerts coming to Edina

The Rising Stars Youth Steel Drum Orchestra will visit Edina Sept. 7-8. (Submitted photo)

Edina will welcome the Rising Stars Youth Steel Drum Orchestra as the percussionists arrive from the U.S. Virgin Islands Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 7 and 8.

The

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I have to interrupt this program to give THIS FORUM a little update on AMERICAN POLITICS: TRUMP FINALLY TRIPS ... but BEVERLEY keeps moving at FULL SPEED!!!

Now TRUMP had a strategy which said: Admit to NOTHING and REVEAL NOTHING. And it was working REAL GOOD until this WHISTLEBLOWER came out of nowhere. But when the UKRAINE MARK BUS, Mitch McConnell (The Republican Head of the SENATE) panicked and calle

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CECIL HINKSON: We need ah NEW HOBBY, boy!!! This PAN TING is NOTHING BUT FAILURE -- especially with THIS PRESIDENT!!!

Cecil: YUH WOMAN IS BOSS PRESIDENT under REAL PRESSURE!!! RUSSELL PROVIDENCE just keep TERRORIZING THE WOMAN with EVERY STEP SHE TAKE.

Ah doh know why THE MAN HATE BEVERLEY SO. But I am also DEPRESSED to see why the TRIVIAL MINDS can't see that her W

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RUSSELL PROVIDENCE: Yuh sending dem CANADIAN E-PAN MEN to TEST ME. Yuh mad or what?

They make ah E-PAN but every time (almost) I see somebody playing the E-PAN -- man using their fingers to play the E-PAN. As they say in the AMERICAN GHETTO: What's up with that, DUDE?

The next thing is that I am yet to hear ONE PIECE of recorded mus

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"Dare we hope that pan administration will really move towards some degree of internal reform?" Mr. Martin Daly is looking on the bright side. And I hope that RUSSELL PROVIDENCE is doing likewise!!!

That was an interesting article, you all should go down and read it.

But my problem remains singular: WHERE IS THE MUSIC?

Plenty MUSIC EDUCATION has been acquired by many of our PLAYERS (in and out of TRINIDAD), so there is no SHORTAGE of HIGHLY MUSI

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THE PIONEERS (Inventors, Players, Expats) did all the ground work and got PAN where it is today; what is LACKING NOW is ADMINISTRATION ...

NINE YEARS OF KEITH DIAZ, followed by THREE YEARS of BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE is GUARANTEED FAILURE until 2021!!!

PAN LOVERS the WORLD OVER (especially in TRINIDAD) HAVE to demand more from our PAN ADMINISTRATORS.

The PAN PRODUCT is being DEVELOPED and

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RUSSELL PROVIDENCE has ONE THING RIGHT: THE STEELBAND MOVEMENT IS ABOUT INDIVIDUAL AGENDAS ABOVE PAN PROGRESS!!!

So how could we change that?

My observations on SOCIETIES have led me to ONE CONCLUSION: Every Society EVOLVES at its OWN PACE. And to some it may seem as a DEFEATIST POSITION -- but I STAND MY GROUND on that CONCLUSION.

And that means to me that all

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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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