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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!!!

CARNIVAL 1953

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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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A Little Tempo Japanese/Reggae/Pan

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A man name JOSEPH MILLS rattling some cages ... every time I see an UN-SHEEP PAN LOVER ah does get ah tingle

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Wheeling Park Jazz and Steel Ensembles receive highest honors

WSTF -

...Not only was the Jazz Band selected for the honor, but so was the Steel Drum Band.

Their program consists of a reggae feel.

"We were not really expecting it and we were just like 'oh okay we play a couple of songs and we played really well'

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The FIRST ORIGINAL (RECORDED) COMPOSITION made for a STEELBAND in the HISTORY OF STEELBAND MUSIC -- that I CAN FIND on THE INTERNET!!!

"The Brute Force recording delayed for a year, duly came out in 1952. It was distinguished by an original piece, composed by Hell’s Gate and entitled Cantata. Not only was it original. It contained a wonderful and unrivalled piece of improvisation

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Pan on the Carnival Laniappe 2019 show

Steelpan activities on video from the Carnival Laniappe 2019 show

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Well since we are doing this PIONEER PROJECT in the OPEN as a team project, I feel the need to set my parameters!!!

First of all, as the WISE MR. LAWFORD DUPRES pointed out: It is more of a COLLATING PROJECT than a BOOK WRITING PROJECT. Although I do intend to present to BUGS and MERRYTONESTOTHEBONE and WHENSTEELTALKS and AQUIL ARRINDELL and PAN TRINBAGO and MR. D

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Two of the greats in one video. Natasha Joseph and Jimi Phillips

Two of the greats in one video. Natasha Joseph and Jimi Phillips

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Man, I did not realize that AQUIL ARRINDELL was a BIG TIME SCHOOL SUPERVISOR touring the island daily to DEVELOP PAN IN SCHOOL

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I love it when EXPATS lament as in this case with SALMON CUPID!!!

"It has been 25 years since I have been teaching Music with the Toronto Board Of Education using the Steelpan as the main instrument. I teach music during the day as a subject. It’s very unfortunate that Trinidad and Tobago is still using Steelpan as

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A FREE GUIDE to PRODUCING a GREAT PIECE of DIGITAL GLOBAL PAN MUSIC

The WORLD HAS CHANGED!!!

Everything is at your FINGER TIPS!!! So if you have a desire to PRODUCE a piece of GLOBAL PAN MUSIC, I will walk you through the TODAY'S STEPS!!!

You do not have to be able to PLAY THE PAN!!!

You do not need to KNOW ANYTHING

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Contradictory PAN HISTORY

This first passage comes from a book written by Mark Cozart Riggio (Carnival Culture in Action -- The Trinidad Experience):

OUT OF OIL THERE CAME THE DRUM

In 1945 the voice, still muted, was in the SMALL PANS, Neville Jules:

Ellie and I were in a com

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