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2014 and the Panman composer still has to struggle with its own people as well as outside to get due recondition for the works they contribute to the art form

We come out to play & Pan in the Atmosphere

 Pan will remain in the Atmosphere  as long as total disloyalty is paid to the panist composers, I personally found many comments towards both tunes was as if it was 1 persons work. But all the WST members

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2014 Small and Medium prelims results

Pantrinbago has released the results of the 2014 Small and Medium Bands on their Web Site.

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The power of steelband on the road By Glenroy Joseph

Congrats Glenroy...from WST to Trinidad Express

Part 2

To me, growth of the steelband means more participation by our youth, more opportunities to generate income, and more steelband activities throughout the year.
This is why I have been an advocate f

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Why I think we should consider moving panorama away from Carnival, return pan to the road, and how it can be done.

I have always maintained that Trinidad's Carnival has suffered in quality as steel-band participation in the carnival parade has diminished.

 

The most visible demonstration of this over the last few years is the fact that while rest of the carnival

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The earliest Pan Recording anywhere. Brute Force Steel Orchestra 1953:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QSTdku_RAQ

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Buying a Pan In Trinidad

Helllo?....can anybody help me out...i would like to know some of the best tuners in trinidad...or where in trinidad i can buy a really good sounding second pan...any help will be appreciated

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How The Steelbands enabled the rise of modern Soca Music in T&T

On the subject of pan tunes, my friends, a thought recently came to me.

Do you realize that the both the sound of modern soca and the creation of pan tunes were  results of the diminished participation of the steelband on the road at carnival?

Here's

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REMEMBERING THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF STEELBAND BOMB TUNES

Members have you ever experience jumping up with your band on  a carnival  day and on seeing another band passing you went and take a chip or a jump with them ?. Well this happened to me, I was jumping up with Highlanders Steel Orchestra on Carnival

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Superblue | Spankin' - A Tribute | Lyrics

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I Can See Clearly Now.

A  pan shiny day to all. A Riff Jammz panside remix.

I Can See Clearly Now.mp3

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Big in De Dance | Anslem Douglas | Lyrics

Enjoy

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The development of the pan in the early days

On the subject of the development of the pan in the early days, I got this information from noted Trinidadian historian, journalist and writer, Bukka Rennie and I was really impressed with his detailed knowledge.
As we delve into the history of the s

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2014 New York Panorama

I'm an Antiguan who used to play pan for Pan Rebels but decided to quit because the arrangers here in Brooklyn didn't impress me till last year. At the Bomb Competition 2012 i firmly believe that Despers USA won that competition hands down. That musi

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The steelband flag woman in the early years.

I've always felt that the story of the steelband flag woman was more a creation of our beloved calypso legend, the late Lord Kitchener, than reality.

True, there were flag women in the early days of the steelband, but these women were in the minority

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PAN IN THE GRAMMY AWARDS? ...HUH!

Pan in the Grammy Awards?.... Huh!

 

Someone can verify this… but I have just been told that some guy got an award at the Grammys that is related to pan. It is some music educator award, apparently he had some four steelband ensembles. What I can say

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IS THE HISTORY OF THE PAN EVOLUTION DISTORTED?

There are so many conflicting narratives even though we had (and still have) live eyewitnesses to this very recent history. Sometimes you get the feeling that every EGO wants to be THE ONE to tell the tale and dismissal of all other voices has become

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We need more participation

Anything worth discussing needs more participation but not participation for participation sake. There

should be solid ideas of a positive nature that would enhance the discussion and not take away from it.

Let us have quality rather than quantity. U

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Othello

I first met Othello through my brother, the late Colin Clarke, at a rehearsal they held in South Miami.  Approximately 26 years later, I had the pleasure of hearing Othello at the Sun Trust Jazz Brunch in Fort Lauderdale, where he had a small but ver

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PAN NEEDS A STAR

Pan needs a  S-T-A-R in North America. One who could fill nightclubs and concert halls from the mountains to the prairies and from sea to shining sea. We have thousands of players in bands -- and on the KFC circuit (one piece, two piece, three piec

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Steel Pan on #YouTube

YouTube is the second largest search engine on the planet. We don't think of it as a search engine, but in addition to being an excellent video resource, it is used as a search engine. What I would like to see on YouTube is more quality music featuri

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