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Like BEVERLEY working TOBAGO OBEAH!!! She is such a DICTATOR she make the WHOLE PAN TRINBAGO EXECUTIVE dress in BLACK to go to court and fight EXODUS yesterday!!!

Ah tell allyuh from the start that this NEVER SEE COME SEE WOMAN is just TOO OBSESSED WITH POWER. So any hope for any kind of PAN PROGRESS done dead and bury in the CEM-EE-TREE!!!

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Well, I am FEELING GOOD!!! For the FIRST TIME since I have been on THIS FORUM I have seen some light shine!!! Thanks to Wilson Jean-Baptiste and Gregory Lindsay!!!

And it all happened in the space of ONE WEEK after ALL THESE YEARS.

I have been calling for a GLOBAL PAN STAR with a WORLD CLASS COMMERCIAL PAN ACT for years on THIS FORUM but I never had AN EXAMPLE to demonstrate THE CONTENT that I was envisioning.

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What really drives me CRAZY is that when you go around all the PAN FORUMS all you could read about is PAN LOVERS discussing ways to take PAN back to the SIXTIES and SEVENTIES ...

THAT FIXATION could put me in an early grave because I just don't understand how rational people could dismiss TODAY and TOMORROW and try to wave a MAGIC WAND and take themselves back to the SIXTIES and SEVENTIES and bring back PAN ON THE ROAD.

Remem

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A MESSAGE TO BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE: Gregory Lindsay is the FIRST PAN PLAYER in Trinidad that I have ever seen figure out the GLOBAL PAN CHALLENGE!!!

Dear Beverley: I am suggesting that you switch DANE GULSTON out to the PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER post and appoint GREGORY LINDSAY the EXTERNAL RELATIONS OFFICER of PAN TRINBAGO.

GREGORY LINDSAY has THE GLOBAL VISION to take the PAN OUTSIDE -- he could

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I have NEVER SEEN MYSELF as part of the STEELPAN FAMILY as referenced by MR. KNOLLY SMITH ... but after reading that interview with MR. BOWEI and seeing the comment from KNOLLY -- AH READY FOR WAR!!!

First of all, let me say that I HATE THE WORD "STEELPAN" -- even to use in a quote.

Secondly, if CURRY did not make THAT THREE-POINTER at the same time that I was reading the MR. BOWEI interview -- I am sure that I would have GONE MAD.

To use a  SHAD

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"There lies the difference in what is commercial music and what is not. Calypso singers or Soca singers must learn the art of writing for the international music industry" -- SIDD TAYLOR!!!

Well SIDD just introduced a TOPIC on which I consider myself VERY WELL INFORMED.

Here is the problem: Much like MOVIE PRODUCTION, MUSIC PRODUCTION is a CRAP SHOOT!!! It is only after you release THE MOVIE or THE SONG that you find out if THE PUBLIC L

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The FIRST TIME I heard ANDY NARELL I was MESMERIZED! The FIRST TIME I heard JONATHAN SCALES I knew he was destined for PAN FAME! The FIRST TIME I heard ANISE HADEED I was intrigued! The FIRST TIME ...

... I heard MOLLEE CRAVEN I knew that MUSICIANS master THE PAN faster than PAN MEN in TRINIDAD.

And the FIRST TIME that I heard WILSON JEAN-BAPTISTE -- I knew that  HE UNDERSTOOD how to represent COMMERCIAL PAN MUSIC for GLOBAL ACCEPTANCE.

Well the

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Ah never see so much PAN TRINBAGO MEETING in meh life and nobody eh telling me what going on in DEM MEETINGS

It had a meeting on APRIL 14TH and ah next meeting on MAY 9TH and ah next meeting on MAY 21ST and ah next meeting on MAY 23RD and ah next meeting on MAY 28TH and now they having ah next meeting some time in JUNE.

And within PAN TRINBAGO they have mor

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Liberty's Tina Charles set to debut documentary on her father at Tribeca Film Festival

Rawlston Charles, an immigrant from Trinidad and Tobago, promoted Calypso and Soca music to the world through his record store and his music label, Charlie's Records.

Tina Charles knows what it is like to be on the big stage.

Charles, after all, is

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EARL RICHARDS: Ah still fighting this battle to see if we could GLOBALIZE THIS PAN MUSIC!!!

Earl: Since HOUSTON loss yuh gone SILENT on me. But we still in the PAN PROGRESS THING TOGETHER so please come back and HELP ME.

At least come and play a NICE CALYPSO or something.

Earl: Yuh think DEM RAPTORS could come down from CANADA and say dey c

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$6.1m for Pan in Schools Programme [After all the BIG IDEAS Pan Trinbago still depending on THE GOVERNMENT for every DOLLAR]

Newsday May 4th, 2019

A $6.1 million contract for the Pan in the Schools Programme has been signed and was announced yesterday at a press conference hosted by Education Minister Anthony Garcia. The money will be spent for the maintenance of pans in 1

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MARCUS ASH: This is where you could bring your VAST BUSINESS BACKGROUND to educate DUVONE STEWART on his MARKETING POTENTIAL

"I am very much surprised that Mr Stewart haven't established a foundation and use the triple crown titles of the 2019 panorama (the first time in the history of this event) to cut a CD with the three winning performances, and market it throughout th

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Allyuh trying to force a BIG MAN HAND and make him give away trade secrets -- so ah will indulge allyuh ah little bit ...

For decades, my ONLY DREAM for PAN was to see a SOLO PERFORMER from TRINIDAD touring the world, filling concert halls and showcasing PAN MUSIC. And for the record, once again, I am not in the STEELBAND TING. I want ONE PAN PLAYER on stage with a BACK

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It is time for PAN PEOPLE to learn a FUNDAMENTAL LESSON from the AUTOMOBILE ...

Why yuh think that the WINDSHIELD SO BIG and the REAR VIEW MIRROR SO SMALL?

Because if you are GOING FORWARD -- yuh NOT SUPPOSED to spend all your time LOOKING BACKWARDS. In other words: TAKE THE BIG VIEW and limit the SMALL BACKWARD VIEW.

But with B

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Well RUSSELL PROVIDENCE must be MAKING PLENTY PLENTY MONEY in that job that he have -- because EVERYBODY ELSE kissing up to BEVERLEY for dey little KAKADA and RUSSELL PROVIDENCE still BLASTING ...

... HER FAILED LEADERSHIP!!!

Aquil, Gregory, Dane (doh talk about DANE), Duvone, Bertel Gittens, and all dem Facebook sites -- PRAISING AND PRAISING BEVERLEY for the EXCELLENT LEADERSHIP she has displayed over the last six and a half months. The lite

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MARCUS ASH: I want you and BEVERLEY to HIRE ME and BRENDA HOSANG as GLOBAL EXTERNAL RELATIONS OFFICERS for STEELDRUM MUSIC ...

ME and BRENDA is the ONLY TWO PEOPLE in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD who have the GLOBAL VISION to take PAN MUSIC to the FAR CORNERS OF THE WORLD!!!

TALK TO BEVERLEY and tell her that I am calling for A TRUCE. Because after watching WILSON JEAN-BAPTISTE -- a

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FIXATED LITTLE BOYS -- Spending all their LIMITED TIME ON EARTH trying to spin the WORLD OF PAN back to the FIFTIES and SIXTIES ...

This is 2019 and THE WORLD did NOT STOP SPINNING.

SO FUNDAMENTAL that we always have to KEEP GOING FORWARD.

Allyuh notice that NOBODY eh arguing for the ADVANCEMENT of the TAMBOO BAMBOO?

Simple reason: All dem fellahs done dead and bury!!!

So I would

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A message to STEVE (SIDD) TAYLOR and DR. KIM JOHNSON on the IDEAL MUSICAL FORMAT to GLOBALIZE PAN MUSIC ...

... of course there is a considerable amount of MARKETING required to get this project off the ground; but PAN TRINBAGO has a GLOBAL PAN MEGAPHONE ... only they just don't know it and lack the talent to market the product.So I think that an independe

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Andre-Roger: When is SALMON CUPID going to take that MARVELOUS E-PAN INVENTION and make some GLOBAL PAN MUSIC with it?

Salmon Cupid went ALL OVER THE WORLD promoting STEELBAND MUSIC. And Salmon Cupid invented the HI-TECH E-PAN -- years ago already -- but with all that PAN PLAYING SKILL and MODERN DAY TECHNOLOGY ... Salmon Cupid is yet to use that E-PAN to make some G

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As I look at the world of STEELBAND FANDOM I am seeing a strong (but subliminal) desire among PAN SUPPORTERS to come together and TAKE THE MUSIC GLOBAL

From what I have seen over decades of observation, I believe that there is a place for GLOBAL PAN MUSIC. I believe that THE EXPATS (particularly) want to see their music on the WORLD STAGE. But what I think is lacking is LEADERSHIP. And it is very di

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