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Bonita school’s musicians feeling the beat with plans to purchase steel drums

Naples Daily News

Bonita Middle School concert band students unload their gear for practice during class at Bonita Springs Middle School Thursday April 21, 2016 in Bonita Springs. The school is currently trying to raise money to purchase a classroom

Zanda

Does anyone have any contact info to get in contact with Carton alexzander, some one in canada was asking for info been trying facebook with no luck

STEELBAND TO BOOST TOURISM. EARN FOREX.

In an article by newsday dated April 17 2016, Prime Minister DR. Keith Rowley said Steelpan will be put to work to promote Tourism and to help earn desperately needed FOREIGN CURRENCY. He also said the uniqueness of the Steelband  has not yet been pu

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY....

Mothers Day Greetings to all Pan Mothers.

EVERYBODY PIMPING THE PAN!!!

And I mean E-V-E-R-Y-B-O-D-Y!!! If I get some intelligent discussion on this topic, I will elucidate!!!

Champions of Steel rock Jubilee Concert

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

NO TALK ABOUT MUSIC!!!

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

Professor Brian Copeland appointed Campus Principal, UWI St. Augustine

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

PAIN and ANGUISH in the PAN FANDOM

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

PAN TRINBAGO AND THE FORUM....

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

What did PAN TRINBAGO ever do to PROMOTE PAN GLOBALLY?

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

Happy Birthday to Glenda Gamory - President of Pantonic Steel Orchestra

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.

The ASSUMPTION that people DO NOT POST on this forum because of NEGATIVITY is a FALSE ASSUMPTION in my books!!!

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

Warning to EXPATRIATES (and others) from the United States Department of State

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

The Strength of A Woman - Anna Raffoul - Dominica ---Revisited

2006 OECS Junior Pan Competition A Success

Dominica, W.I. - Armed with a dream and a vision of what could, should and must be, Ms. Anna-Maria Raffoul showed the world again that great things can happen if you are committed and surrounded with a

Working for the Yankee Dollar Calypso and Calypsonians in North America, 1934-1961

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

Time for this FORUM to WAKE UP AND FACE REALITY!!!

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

PANORAMA, CURSE OR BLESSING?

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?

Who is Aubrey Adams?

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

Do any schools in Trinbago offer students academic credits for playing pan?

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