"When an arranger sets out to arrange for steelband, the crucial, inescapable, musical fact is that despite the difference in pitch and range, the similarity of sound from all the different steel pan instruments is in stark and obvious contrast to th
Read more…I think that MEXICO has THE TEAM to beat BRAZIL but not the CONFIANZA!!! If they get the lead they will get TOO DEFENSIVE and if they fall behind they will lose ESPERANZA!!!
As Robert Hays said in AIRPLANE: WHAT A PISSER [of a draw]!!!
Makes me think
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I may lose a few friends in the Steelpan Community for this post, but either way I was never good at keeping friends.
I need to clear my chest on this on going matter. For the past 3 years, I have been the Secretary for the Eastern Region of Pan Tri
A few years ago Pantrinbago came up with the brilliant idea to pay Players a stipend of $1000.00 for performing in Panorama, nobody objected to it in the beginning but it created a lot of ghost bands especially in the single band category that create
Read more…A lot of CRITICAL ISSUES got TABLED!!! And I wish that we could develop some of those conversations and convert them to ACTION.
When it comes to PAN, I am a CONTRADICTION because I see the POTENTIAL OF THE INSTRUMENT yet I am of LITTLE FAITH that we
Read more…Almost 20,000 PAN LOVERS on THIS FORUM and I am sure that a few of us could chip in some SMALL CHANGE and get this project done.
Why did I pick MERRYTONESTOTHEBONE? Well he is one of the FEW ON THE GROUND PAN MEN ARRANGERS who support THE FORUM. And
Read more…As Steelbands have been excluded from Carnival Fetes, Pantrinbago for the 2019 Carnival Season should not focus only on Panorama, but take a page from All Stars book and do more things for Steelbands by having their own Carnival Steelband Fetes. For
Read more…Meet Adelle Joseph-Phillip
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Next year the NSSB
Read more…Questions to be considered when electing our candidates:
Now, people had to see that PAN-ROCK production by Tracy Thornton. And most PAN LOVERS will give a knee-jerk response: "I doh like ROCK and ROLL!!!"
Well, I did not see that video through the eyes of the song they recorded. I saw it in terms of QUALI
Read more…Everybody is always screaming ANDY ANDY ANDY and very few people know about JEFF!!!
The renowned University of Southern Mississippi Steel Pan Orchestra will welcome international recording artist Jeff Narell as part of a special performance set for 7
Read more…They want BIG TRUCKS off the road!!!
They want THE SOCADROME shut down!!!
They want LARGE AUDIENCES attending the DIMANCHE GRAS SHOW!!!
They want SOLD OUT SEATS for the CARNIVAL PARADE on Monday and Tuesday at the SAVANNAH!!!
They want DEE JAYS off o
Read more…This is not my question; this question was posed by MR. BUGS.
(Everybody knows my question which I have been asking for years since I came on this forum: When will some Trinidadian make some decent PAN MUSIC that could get some global sales and airpl
Read more…Highlighting Panchromatic Steel of Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Time to let go all of this recent depressing bacchanal and accumulated rubbish from the past carnival season; and to get back into the music.
This is what the steelpan is for; a trip Down de
Read more…Look how much EXPATS do for GLOBAL PAN!!! Except that PEOPLE IN TRINIDAD have NO IDEA!!! Well, just look at WHEN STEEL TALKS and just look at ELLIE MANNETTE!!!
I could write a list LONGER than the 100 CANDIDATES who are currently lining up to TAKE OV
Read more…TRINIDAD and TOBAGO has DIPLOMATIC CONNECTIONS (Inside and Outside) with LORD KNOWS how many countries around the world. And you mean they cannot use that SPRINGBOARD to get our artistes DISPLAYING the PAN AROUND THE GLOBE.
People like MIA GORMANDY a
Read more…QUESTION (asked by Anthony Joseph): Do you all think Andy Narell will be successful if he used a full steel orchestra instead of all the top class musicians that he features in his recordings and live performances?
And since GLOBAL PAN MUSIC has been
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