Steelband Music (1319)
If BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE really had CONCERN and LOVE for PAN IN TRINIDAD -- she would STEP DOWN (or at least STEP ASIDE) and let some PAN LOVERS with BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE SKILLS run PAN TRINBAGO
The debt she inherited was TOO MASSIVE!!! And her ADMINISTRATIVE and DIPLOMATIC and MARKETING SKILLS are NOT A FIT for PAN TRINBAGO during this FINANCIAL CRISIS. When you combine this with her inherent tendency to secrecy and the MESSIANIC LEADERSHIP
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The TINA CHARLES STORY was a very instructive story that PAN LOVERS around the world should take to heart and learn from her example!!!
This is 2019 and TECHNOLOGY RULES THE DAY. You don't need to be able to PLAY A PAN to produce high quality PAN MUSIC. And you don't need to hire A PAN MAN and bring him to the studio with his half-tuned PAN and pompous attitude and tardiness and sho
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Well is years now I am on THIS FORUM asking "WHERE IS THE MUSIC? WHERE IS THE MUSIC?" and just so yesterday ah find AN EXAMPLE of what I expect in GLOBAL PAN MUSIC ...
... but it is NOT JUST THE MUSIC!!! It is the DISTINGUISHED CHARACTER that THE MUSICIAN brings to the WHOLE PRESENTATION. And I am sure that ENGLISH is this man's SECOND LANGUAGE. So imagine his GLOBAL POTENTIAL if he ever runs in to the RIGHT AGENT.
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Talk about a DO NOTHING PRESIDENT: BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE. At least Diaz and Forteau kept busy stealing SIXTY MILLION ,,,
But it eh have NO MONEY left for BEVERLEY to TIEF so she just running around pretending to be productive with meeting after meeting and still NUTTEN eh HAPPENING!!!
Hands out to the GOVERNMENT (GIMME GIMME) after all the BIG PROMISES.
And big product
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Do you all agree with STEVE (SIDD) TAYLOR that JAZZ is the best musical genre that could take PAN MUSIC GLOBAL?
About steel pan artistes tapping into the mainstream music Industry. All genres of music can be utilized. However jazz remains a matured genre for matured minds. It remains a worldwide developer of minds. The steel pan instrument is born out of impro
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Ah have to go back to that BOWIE INTERVIEW because it really KILL MY PAN SPIRIT to read that AMBASSADORS from TRINIDAD was PIMPING THE PAN in AFRICA
I still cannot recover from that revelation. Ah wish ONE TRINIDADIAN could have come on THIS FORUM a call MR. BOWEI a LIAR. Even if that person was lying -- I could live with that.
Part of my depression comes from the fact that (ah so upset ah using
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There is NO SUCH THING as a WORLD GOVERNING BODY OF PAN!!! The closest thing to that is the combined efforts of WHEN STEEL TALKS and GIGSALAD
https://whensteeltalks.ning.com/
https://www.gigsalad.com/Music-Groups/Steel-Drum-Band/ON/London
Anybody in THE WORLD who wants to learn about STEELBAND HISTORY AND MUSIC could come to the WHENSTEELTALKS WEBSITE and gain access to THE WORLD OF PAN.
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BRENDA HOSANG: PAN TRINBAGO (THE WORLD GOVERNING BODY OF PAN) is sending a TWO-PERSON DELEGATION to MARYLAND to TEACH AMERICANS how to TEACH PAN IN AMERICAN SCHOOLS ... Ah want to bawl!!!
“CAFÉ recognizes the fact that Trinidad & Tobago remains at the forefront of the global steelpan movement and believes that partnership with Pan Trinbago would raise the level of performance and musicianship amongst youth in the United States, and al
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CECIL HINKSON: Ah have to give you a SPECIAL PRAISE for your insight!!!
A few years ago we were posting and you said that the NEXT GENERATION TRINIS in New York were going to be the ones to push the culture forward. And lo and behold ah live to see TINA CHARLES make the FIRST SPLASH.
So I have to commend you for that ins
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In 2010 THE TT GOVERNMENT granted $30,000,000 to PAN TRINBAGO to STAGE PANORAMA ...
... well in today's world -- any 5 year-old child could do a search and realize that between then and now the TT GOVERNMENT has sunk around $300,000,000 into PANORAMA (and PAN TRINBAGO) between 2009 and 2019!!!
And that does not include the STOLEN P
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Now I come on THIS FORUM (which is called a "DISCUSSION FORUM") and I put up a PIECE OF MUSIC for DISCUSSION -- with MY opinion!!!
Well, if my conclusion is WRONG -- put up YOUR MUSIC and make YOUR POINT.
And the best way to do that is to do like THE BROWN GIRL IN THE RING and SHOW ME YOUR MOTION!!!
But if you CANNOT PUT UP YOUR MUSIC -- how are you going to make your point with
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Dem WHITE TECH BOYS are working out (EXPERIMENTING ON) the PAN THING -- ah always knew that this was coming ...
Just some randomly chosen examples. But it is clear that the work is being done and it is just a matter of time before some of these experimenters advance the finished sound and TAKE THE MUSIC GLOBAL ... especially in COMMERCIALS and THE MOVI
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Now allyuh manage to get me to STRAY from my PET PEEVE -- and that is the FAILED LEADERSHIP of BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE ... so let me get back on track with this UPDATE!!!
To begin with, somebody should call up KENNY PHILLIPS or VANESSA HEADLEY and ask them to post or transcribe the BOOGSIE INTERVIEW from YESTERDAY. (Now I could call up KENNY PHILLIPS myself and probably get it -- but something tells me that I may nee
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IAN FRANKLIN: Since you are the RECOGNIZED AUTHORITY on PAN HISTORY, I am inviting you to come on THIS FORUM and set the record straight!!!
Ian: We need to clear up a a very simple issue!!!
In what year was the PAN "invented"?
Or put another way: In what year did a TENOR PAN made from a 55-gallon drum EXPOSE ITSELF to the TRINIDAD PUBLIC?
Even though we are all on DIFFERENT FORUMS -- is
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CARNIVAL IN TRINIDAD 1953!!! The MUSIC was amazing!!! The people danced and JUMPED UP THEN -- NO WINING!!! And no BEADS and BRA!!!
That VIBE from the music ... a treasure trove for a MODERN COMPOSITION!!!
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I have come to the conclusion that 1947 is the year that the first TENOR PAN was BUILT (in T&T) using a 55 gallon OIL DRUM!!!
If you go around the PAN CHAT FORUMS you will see hundreds of PAN LOVERS talking about PAN in the SIXTIES and SEVENTIES and a little bit in the EIGHTIES.
It is very unlikely that you will see too many people talking about PAN in the FORTIES; and just
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Re-Percussions! The Steel Drum Beats Goes On to Africa!
Re-Percussions: Our African Odyssey, award-winning Trinidadian film-maker Kim Johnson’s contribution to this year’s Caribbean Tales International Film Festival in Toronto, is a documentary
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