ONE EXAMPLE: Suppose NUTONES read this propaganda about playing and pushing pan on the road for carnival ...

... and they say "OK" we going and listen to CECIL and the WST NOSTALGICS and play a MAS in town. How do they finance bringing 80 players and 100+ PANS and 50 PAN PUSHERS to the heart of town to recreate 1965?

And how do you compare NUTONES to ALL ST

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Minister: T&T looking at South America as market for pan

Minister of Arts, Culture and Community Development Nyan Gadsby-Dolly says T&T is looking to South America as a potential market for steelpan and steelpan services.

Gadsby-Dolly said this during an interview yesterday at her Nicholas Towers office in

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Only love and respect from Trinidad All Stars to Desperadoes, no room for hate

I stopped frequenting this board a year ago in protest of the unfettered, ugly pettiness and hatred spewed out to my band Trinidad All Stars because of our hard work and focus over the years, but I must break my boycott to congratulate Desperadoes on

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XENOPHOBIA, HYPOCRISY and THE PANORAMA TING

All this clamour and resentment because a FOREIGNER decides to come to Trinidad and arrange a PANORAMA song is pure irony to me. I am sure that 80% of the people screaming "WE TING WE TING" are not even REAL TRINIDADIANS. Three quarters of the self-a

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Access Limitations to the North Stand of the Queen's Park Savannah from the NCC

These restrictions are necessary to ensure the health and safety of our patrons at events. They are as follows:

• The maximum party cooler size allowed is 30 3/8" long x 17 1/4" high x 17 3/8" wide (metric). Coolers larger than this will not be allowe

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NOT ONE ESTABLISHED C-A-R-N-I-V-A-L around the world has DIED in the last century

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What a way to make the WASHINGTON POST

Not with MUSIC but with MURDER!!!

http://www.guardian.co.tt/news/2016-02-12/international-media-pick-pannist%E2%80%99s-murder

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Local musical legend Joey "Pal" Lewis dies

Cnc3 News - Trinidad

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For Starlift Fans (Especially Allima Garcia) Panorama 2016 Semi-Finals

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Panorama Scoring

It's impossible to really appreciate the difference in overall quality between panorama performances that are separated by a mere  one, two or three or four points, no matter how earnest the judges are. The final scores are so inherently unscientific

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SO WHAT DO THE BOOGSIE FANS HAVE TO SAY?

I am really curious about that commentary!!!

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DESPERADOES: "DIFFERENT ME" SEMI-FINALS

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Music programs.

I would like to try doing some music for pan and would like to arrange it from my laptop, any one have any good programs I can use that will give me the full lines of instrument in a band?

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Consummate steelpan artist, educator honoured - Dr. Lennox Borel

An active steelplan player in his native Trinidad & Tobago, Dr. Lennox Borel assumed that life was behind him when he arrived in Canada in 1960 to pursue post-secondary studies at the University of Toronto.

He was so wrong.

Just as the

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Panorama Scoring, Part 2

I wonder why the judges' individual score sheets for each performance, with scores for each of the four categories and related comments, for the Panorama finals, are not published for the public record!. Seems to me that this transparency would impro

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Semi-Finals Order of Appearance for Medium Steel Orchestras - Trinidad & Tobago National Steelband Panorama 2016

Position	Medium Band
1	West Side Symphony
2	Pamberi
3	Couva Joylanders
4	Buccooneers
5	Dixieland
6	St. Margaret’s Superstars
7	Western Stars Philharmonics
8	Katzenjammers
9	Belmont 5th Dimension
10	Melodians
11	Pan Elders
12	Sound Specia

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Any Narell Music - Is it Good or Bad for Our Panorama?

Its about Time that Andy Narel Leave our  Panorama Music alone if He Cant understand it, Instead of Trying to Force His Low Energy Music Upon us.

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BIG-UP to CEDRIC MCINTOSH -- he giving the forum plenty TEMPO!!!

Keep posting Mr. Cedric!!! Put up some of your OWN TOPICS!!!

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Panorama semis too long

By Melissa Doughty Newsday

From as early as 8.30am the sounds of pan wafted through the City of Port-of-Spain. A line of small conventional bands lined what is commonly referred to as The Drag; awaiting their turn in the 2016 National Panorama semi-fi

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Clarence Curvan reflects on the passing of his friend and mentor , Joey Lewis

I received a call from Clarence Curvan the other night. He was very moved by the passing of his dear friend and colleague Joey Lewis , and needed to express his feelings verbally.
Clarence , who is still in Trinidad asked me to put some of his feelin

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