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About class,color, and race- a more complete understanding of a people's music and culture.

Here is a a more all rounded truth of the involvement of class, color and race of a people who invented the pan.  It is true that the Afro Trinidadian were first given the gift of pan, as a replacement for their natural instruments-the African drums.

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Band Sponsorship

This has been a historic issue with the steel orchestras. Is it not time for the leaders to seek more funds from sponsors? I would think that if each band were to seek more sponsorship from established companies, manufacturers, large establishments e

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Latest Innovations with Steel Pan

We all love the steel pan. Are there any innovations that our pan community is looking forward to?

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In about the yr 2000 I came back to carnival and heard renegades play Carnival is Over

Since then, I have started a steel band here in Australia, and regularly try to find a recording that must have been made by somebody, probably to do with Renegades, of Kitch's ' Carnival is Over'

Renegades played it after carnival and panorama, in t

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Transcending race, ethnicity, color of skin and class through spiritual consciousness and pan.

The philosophical concept that the pan invention brought with it the ability to unite the differences created by race, ethnicity, skin color and class is becoming more and more prevalent in the overall modern writings of the history of pan by histori

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Carnival is big money. Where's the Panist's share?

I'm watching the Carnival parade on CTNTWorld and I'm thinking, Carnival is big money.

Band leaders,costume creators and designers, caterers, retailers, DJs,Soca singers and bands, transportation companies etc. etc., they all make money off the Carn

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The Future Of Pan Music!

Hi,

I think in today`s steel bands music as one can observe there is a great amount of improvement

and maturity in the music that`s being put forward; many youngsters are improving their musical knowledge and skills in the academic forum, I think it

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vibes is everyone favorite song is time for professor to win a panorama

2012 steelband panorama favorite song vibes time for the professor to win he paid his dues

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Looking for some steel pan digital music

I was curious if anyone downloads steel pan  music? I have over 1000 songs from different bands and orchestras as well as steel drum artists to. I'm looking in particular for I'm yours by Jason Mraz instrumental steel pan style. I can't seem to find

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Carnival 2012 Accommodations

Hello everyone:

 

I am a pan fanatic for more than 40 years and attended TT Carnival 1976 and 1981.  Would like to attend 2012 and find accommodations ideally with other pan lovers to visit pan yards and who know the scene.

 

Hopefully withing walkin

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Len "Boogsie" Sharpe - A Tribute to the Mighty Sparrow

Boogsie's Tribute to the Calypso King of the World is now on Sale.

Mp3s can be purchased online from CDBaby.com or from the Percussive Harmonic Instrument Facebook page.

In Trinidad, the physical retailers are Kam's (Long Circular Mall), Crosby's (St

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Who were the Pannist sent to represent T&T at the 1967 Expo World's Fair in Montreal, Canada.

This group was the official home based band in the T&T Pavilion and played daily. Some of the players were Knolly from the Coast Guard, Tobagonian Cesar, Roach, Briathwaite from the Police Services.This group was made up of Government employees for o

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Campaign to re-release 1950s through to the 1990s steelband recordings

Re-mastered or re-engineered recordings; mainly for those of us who may have missed out.
I think it will also help raise much needed funds for Pan Trinbago and the performing bands.

According to what I have heard over the past years listening to WACK

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The foremost creative guardians of calypso, pan and dance are leaving and the there is no sight of intenational status for these industries.

First Allison Hezekiah, then Pat Bishop, now Jeraldine Connor.  These are icons in the culture of T&T. They propagated for the culture to go mainstream. They got some rewards but not enough to propel the culture to international markets. They all pas

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Talking about stolen Caribbean songs "Rum and Coca Cola" the foremost international superhit of calypso

The greater the superhit the greater the possiblity of it being copied in some form or fashion. That's why Record companies try to recapture the cost of production in its first sales of records. Then after that it begins to pay royalties to the artis

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The true origins of "Yellow Bird".

The of the song "Yellow Bird", is really a Haitian folk song named "Choucoune".

Here's proof of that.

http://www.haitian-truth.org/harry-belafonte-yelow-bird-the-story-of-choucoune-stolen-legacy/

Us panplayers, have always thought this to be a T&T fo

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In Keeping With Technology — Moving Pan Forward with the #1 Steelpan App

I believe that we need to keep up with technology which will assist with moving pan forward. With applications like the #1 Steelpan App, it gives the world access to steelpan like it has never had before. These are positive steps towards educating th

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From Kim Loy Wong to Bertie Marshall

As I listen to Kim Loy Wong's Hylanders of 1957, and Bertie Marshall's Hylanders of 1964, I'm blown away by the incredible  advancements made by the steelband in a relatively short time span of seven years.

Many others  may have contributed to the gr

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Steelbands at WeBeat 2011

What are your thoughts of the performances by several steelbands which performed during WeBeat Festival 2011?

 

On the Thursday night at the Pan Explosion show Rhapsody Steel Orchestra opened the show with what has become their customary fusion of PH

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‘Children You Must Love Your Mother’ - Pan Tribute to MOM on Her Day by Hayden Lynch

Global - It’s Mother’s Day all around the world, and Steelpan Moms and Steelband Music-related Moms - are as important and revered as any on the planet. Over the years they have been commemorated in song, and, also in steelband composition as well.

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