Steelband Music (1329)
Today (5/23/2019) provided the CROWNING JEWEL of VALIDATION in my arguments on GLOBALIZING PAN MUSIC. So I want TO THANK WHENSTEELTALKS for providing THE PLATFORM which has been so instrumental ...
in PROVIDING THE PLATFORM which served as a CATALYST for my CONTINUING SEARCH.
Many times on THIS FORUM I have talked about PLATFORMS -- specifically associated with THE MERRYMEN and generally associated with PAN TRINBAGO. Platforms are critical to s
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I am not a big NANCY PELOSI FAN but I like the "INTERVENTION TALK" -- so I am calling NOT for a TRUMP INTERVENTION but a BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE INTERVENTION!!!
If allyuh REALLY LOVE PAN. And if allyuh REALLY WANT TO SEE PAN PROGRESS -- then we have to join forces and do an INTERVENTION and GET RID OF BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE as PRESIDENT OF PAN TRINBAGO.
As they say in the MAFIA: This is NOT PERSONAL; this is
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After all these years ARGUING about PAN -- ah finally FIND AH KINDRED SPIRIT in an fellah name MICHAEL KERNAHAN! Thanks to CECIL HINKSON!!!
Well CECIL went and put up a post wondering how with all the HIGHLY EDUCATED PEOPLE in PAN they CANNOT come up with some SOLUTIONS to MOVE PAN FORWARD.
Now that is a TOPIC that I could write a 1000-page paper on. But that is not the point that I want
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A GLOBAL PAN STAR emerges from SOUTH FLORIDA
Born in the Caribbean, Wilson Jean-Baptiste is a professional musician and an experienced keyboardist and vocalist who has performed in a variety of venues. Upon observing the rapid emergence of the STEEL DRUM and the demand for quality players, in 2
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Over the years WHEN STEEL TALKS has "FORCED ME" to read hundreds of articles on PAN -- on and off THE FORUM ...
But there was an article they posted on THE FORUM this week that has had the most profound effect on me in PAN DECADES (no hyperbole here!!!).
ALEXANDRA MARTINEZ -- Miami New Times
"YET MELANCHOLIC CHIME"
With the delivery of those three words, I am
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After declaring PANORAMA 2019 the BEST and MOST SUCCESSFUL EVER -- PAN TRINBAGO is getting SHORT PAY
Is only LIES and MISREPRENSENTATIONS coming out of this NEW PAN TRINBAGO EXECUTIVE. After the CARNIVAL they boasted about the most SUCCESSFUL PANORAMA in HISTORY and the MOST EFFICIENTLY RUN EVER.
Well now the MARK BUS on the MONEY PART and it turns
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So this is a comment made by MR. DAVID MARTINS (from Guyana) about PAN MUSIC that I would like THE FORUM to discuss!!!
"The sound [of the STEELPAN] is captivating , but because it is a percussive instrument, there are limitations on gradations between notes."
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Motown's Charm School -- a good lesson for THE PAN WORLD as I keep talking about THE TOTAL PACKAGE
For five years the gracious Maxine Powell ran the only in-house finishing school at any American record label. The petite former actress, model, manicurist, cosmetologist, and African-American finishing school-modeling agency founder was hired by Mot
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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.
A
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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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