The Guyana Chronicle
The Champions of Steel in Concert, held on Saturday at the National Cultural Centre (NCC), has been labelled “a rare treat” by Education Minister Dr Rupert Roopnaraine.Being part of Guyana’s Golden Jubilee events, the concert was
Read more…This forum frustrates me. What do STEELDRUMS and STEELBANDS do? They make music!!! Yet, this forum refuses to discuss PAN MUSIC outside of PANORAMA. Instead, we want to go back to the SIXTIES to PUSH PAN ON THE ROAD.
We have an INTERNATIONAL MARKET f
Read more…ST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad and Tobago. April 30, 2016 – Former Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Professor Brian Copeland, has been appointed Campus Principal of The University of the West Indies (UWI) St. Augustine. The appointment was announced yest
Read more…STEELBAND MUSIC FANS keep expecting expansion and acceptance and worldwide recognition and global media placement of their beloved instrument -- but there is very little to write home about. I could only think of a line from a SPARROW CALYPSO that su
Read more…It's a positive move by Pan Trinbago to have their PR man reach out to the pan public here in the Forum, with todays technology distance don't matter, we all share news as it happens,so by you all addressing the largest site for pan shows a certain a
Read more…When KEITH DIAZ boasts about PAN TRINBAGO being THE GLOBAL GOVERNING BODY OF PAN, ah just have to hold meh head and bawl. Think about all the TRINIDADIANS (EXPATRIATES) who have made such unselfish contributions to promoting PAN globally.
And then KE
Read more…When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to Glenda Gamory, President of Pantonic Steel Orchestra. Glenda is the first woman to lead a major orchestra to Panorama victory.
Read more…I saw two posters trying to blame the LACK OF PARTICIPATION on this forum on ME and my NEGATIVITY -- that is a TOTALLY FALSE ASSUMPTION. For years now I have been involved in the TT GUARDIAN FORUMS where RACE, POLITICS and CRIME in T&T have been the
Read more…Like the country getting a bad reputation for crime!!!
http://www.guardian.co.tt/news/2016-05-02/us-warns-citizens-about-tt%E2%80%99s-high-crime-rate
Read more…2006 OECS Junior Pan Competition A Success
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Some interesting history for calypso lovers and researchers can be found here...
https://yankeedollar.wordpress.com/
Harlem’s Calypso Renaissance
Posted by Michael Eldridge on April 20, 2015
https://yankeedollar.wordpress.com/2015/04/20/harlems-caly
Read more…KEITH DIAZ is going to continue to RULE PAN TRINBAGO for the next five and a half years, as long as he stays healthy. That means that NOTHING is going to CHANGE (or have a chance of changing) with the PAN CULTURE in TRINIDAD and TOBAGO until 2021. A
Read more…This is a question WST frequently ask people they interview, a member ask it on another site and the response was over-whelming, so I decided to put out the question here to all members, IS PANORAMA A CURSE OR A BLESSING?
Read more…Recent discussion on Cultural ambassadors, managers, promoters of our culture had me thinking back to a time when government was involved in showcasing the art-form for international consumption. The name Aubrey Adams came to mind.
My question is why
Read more…Last weekend my husband and I went to Conway, New Hampshire for the New England Pan Festival. It was interesting seeing many youths from age 8 to elders age 80 having a super time playing the steel drum. Many of them were excited to tell us how they
Read more…T&T’s Machel Montano and St Vincent’s Skinny Fabulous are today smiling from ear to ear no doubt, having recently sealed a deal with ESPN’s publishing rep, PILOT, for the use of their collaborative 2016 soca track, Go Hard.
Ebuzztt spoke with the loc
Read more…The band needs a person or group to manage them, how can we use this forum to assist them? I will like to believe that we have people here with the ability to assist directly or make recommendations, what can we do?.
Read more…I Think that there Should Be Pan on Carnival Friday Night and Saturday Night. Friday Night should Be Pan 21st Century and Pan Down Memory Lane and Saturday Night Medium and Large Band Panorama Finals. All Music Should Be in Calypso Tempo For Both Sh
Read more…Here is an ACTION ITEM. During my time on this forum, three SERIOUS PAN DEVOTEES (living in Trinidad) have impressed me with their commitment and dedication to PAN.
Gerard Clarke, Bertel Gittens and Alima Garcia are LIVING THE PAN DREAM, in my books
Read more…One day, we’ll tell our grandchildren how listening to music “on demand” required a trip to the store, where we picked out albums sealed too strongly in plastic, forking over $20 for each one. “That’s nice,” they’ll say, tapping the next song from a
