PANS long ago used to sound better and the best basses he heard is DESPERS, the host asked who am i speaking to and the calller said BOOGSIE SHARPE.

On 91.9 FM  steelband show last night a caller called in and said PANS long ago used to sound better and the best basses were DESPERS. The host asked who am I speaking to and the caller said BOOGSIE man, BOOGSIE SHARPE. and the host said BOOGSIE man.

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Carnival spreads her wings in Seychelles

These are issues facing every carnival or mas band. It’s apparent in Notting Hill, where there’s an urgent need for younger designers, band-leaders, steelpan arrangers and players, and organisers to take over the reins from the old guard. Carnival ne

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Muhammad Ali - RIP

The Greatest

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Happy Father's Day

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Pan Trinbago wants balance of Govt allocation

PAN TRINBAGO is appealing to the Government to pay the rest of their allocation so they can pay their members

At a news conference yesterday, at Pan Trinbago’s head office, Park Street, Port-of-Spain, Pan Trinbago President Keith Diaz said this year,

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Cecil Hinkson: Your forum switched to RACE and POLITICS OF THE PAN!!!

People on this forum always talking about PROTECTING THE PAN. Not letting WHITE PEOPLE TEEF THE PAN. What a mystical instrument sent by God through the Black Man. The only musical instrument invented in the 20th Century. The African Slavery struggle

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Steel band hots up the last Queen's birthday party in Blackbird Leys

EVEN on a drizzly day in Oxford, this steel band managed to bring some Jama

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Pan celebration of Manning

G. Cardinez - Newsday

THAT Pan Trinbago should have chosen Marabella for its Pan in De Countryside last Saturday seems to be poetic. Most of the people at the Marabella Recreation Ground used the event as a “Celebration of the Life” of former prime m

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The PanART Hang & Gubal: Percussion Personifications of Saturn and Satan's Mushroom

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New York panorama and arrangers

My question is with the amount of arrangers based in New York or the states  why is it bands are bringing big arrangers to do the music for them is it worth the money to put out to fly them in even if you win are dont win. I credit despers for going

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When It Comes To Handpans, EVERYONE is an Expert! (Part 1)

https://www.karibpan.com/blogs/news/178551815-when-it-comes-to-handpans-everyone-is-an-expert-part-1

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A white girl named CATT once came on this forum and summarized it as being only about BIRTHDAYS and DEATHS ...

... so what does the heavy body of posters think about that comment?

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Hamsa Handpans The Talisman Teams with ''Pantasia Gathering'', a Secret Society Sect Selling Spiritual Snake Oil

For the readers who have been following the KaribPAN blog and joining us on this jinn-filled journey into the satanic, occultic nature of the handpan industry, please remember the bottom line in all of this; namely that the handpan community is being

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The HandPan Mafia

https://www.karibpan.com/blogs/news/177263687-the-handpan-mafia

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Swiss Pan Vandals

If You Own a Hang or Wish to Own a ''PanArt Hang'', You Are Either Highly Misinformed, Very Elitist, or Both!

https://www.karibpan.com/blogs/news/if-you-own-a-hang-or-wish-to-own-a-panart-hang-you-are-either-highly-misinformed-or-very-elitist

Ju

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Is it true that Pan players have not yet been paid for T& T Panorama 2016 performances?

Inquiring minds would like to know if it is true that pan players have yet to receive pay for their participation in Trinidad and Tobago's Panorama 2016?

If this is true, who is responsible?

bugs

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Is there a VAST difference between KNOCKING IN a note and TUNING?

Casper Durant in a recent post stated...

If I am at a concert and for what ever reason a note should move, I could knock that note  in and be able to perform. That is not tuning, and this is exactly what most modern tuners can do, nothing more, you h

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PARTY TIME ONCE AGAIN ACROSS THE LAND!!!

It looks like PARTY TIME again in Trinidad. Oil went back over $50.00 a barrel and the PRIME MINISTER grabbed 2.5 BILLION from the HSF. So the streets are once again flush with free flowing CASH. All talk about DIVERSIFICATION OF THE ECONOMY will dis

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Contributions on this site.

I made a contribution to a post on this site and I was accused of trying to promote Tripoli, I replied to the person telling them I had lost respect for them.

I do not know why this hurt so much and is still hurting that I am prompted to talk a littl

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Favourite Sparrow

Sparrow has so many great calypsoes that so exqusitely capture the soul of the Nation; in lyrics, music and delivery;It is difficult to choose. Melda, Sa sa yeh, Phillip My Dear, "... George Bailey I will always remember; when ah steelband pas' playi

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