Received this screen shot from a friend who credits today's Trinidad Guardian...
The consensus on this forum is that BOOGSIE SHARPE is going to win this Panorama -- HANDS DOWN!!! I was big on DESPERS when I heard the slow version of their song but when I listened to the SEMI-FINALS they were BEATING THE PANS TOO HARD FOR ME.
So I
Read more…Finals Results - Medium Conventional Steel Orchestras - Trinidad & Tobago Panorama 2016 - Pan Elders and Duvone Stewart Make It Three In A Row
| 275 | Pan Elders | |
| 1st | ||
| 2nd | 271 | Buccooneers |
| 3rd | 270 | Katzenjammers |
| 3rd | 270 | Sound Specialists of Laventi |
Could PANORAMA survive without GOVERNMENT FUNDING under the leadership of a man like KEITH DIAZ?
The Government, as Dr Rowley has correctly assessed, has no business getting involved in Carnival. State institutions do not understand the event, and th
Read more…Track:
1. Pantasy
2. Mavis John
3. Regeneration Now
4. Lord Kitchener
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Salah: There is so much discussion of PAN MUSIC on this forum by the LESS MUSICALLY INFORMED. I would really like you to come on and explain some of the PANORAMA musical intricacies to the MASSES.
Read more…By DAVID McFADDEN
The Associated Press
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — During the good times, earnings from natural gas and oil exports made the tiny Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago one of the richest countries in the Western Hemisphere. The c
Read more…Well, they could put Andy last or third to last but that was the cleanest piece of PAN MUSIC I ever heard. Panorama wise, it was SHORT ON CALYPSO and the JAZZ was TOO POLISHED for that stage. But musically, BIRDSONG set a new standard for performanc
Read more…Claude said he likes the change he see's this year with the SOCA and hopes they stay with it for a few years. But in the Newsday dated Friday January 15 Calypso stalwart King David Michael Rudder one of the Country's most successful and respected Cal
Read more…I've been hitting the rewind button since WST put up this Pelham and Rudder tune.
Can someone convince Boogsie to skip writing a song this year and use this chune with Phase II please?
Read more…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Woamz4-lpXk
I was thinking about a CALYPSO that displayed CLASSIC COMPOSITION SKILLS and this song came to mind out of the blue.
One might call it an EXERCISE in REINFORCEMENT OF THE HOOK.
Read more…Mariano Browne shares some honest and insightful analysis of the Trinidad Economy over the next few years. We cannot expect MILLIONS and MILLIONS to be THROWN AT PAN like the last five years.
GIMME GIMME got to take a back seat!!! Time for CREATIVITY
Read more…Andy compose Dis 1 4 Raf, no doubt Renegades and SuperNovas will be lookin to win a last one for Jit, D Boi's from Brooklyn fresh from their recent success in the ICP lookin to make their mark against the Trini big guns, Despers and StarLift with new
Read more…By Verdel Bishop -- Trinidad Express
Pan Trinbago president Keith Diaz said Tuesday there have been some changes in the format for the 2016 competition, the most significant being the semi-finals where all conventional bands would face the adjudicato
Read more…The last time the PNM held office under Mr Manning there was a lot of hype about the G-pan, what's become of the G-pan, are they in production? if I remember correctly it cost the tax payers a few dollars.
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State-owned oil company, Petrotrin and popular pan side Phase Two Pan Groove have parted ways, ending a 15-year relationship together.
Petrotrin issued a media statement this afternoon saying that Phase Two Pan Groove has opted to work with anoth
The hills of Escalier lands and Sorzanoville provided safe haven for the Orisha drummers, the tambour bamboo bands and the Casablanca Steelband. The valley which descended from the Laventille hills between Hermitage Road and Quarry Street to the East
Read more…By Susan Mohammed
Passed away: Pan icon Jit Samaroo
STEELPAN icon Jit Samaroo has died. Samaroo passed away at his home in D’Abadie shortly before noon on Thursday. He was 65.
Samaroo was the arranger for the Renegades Steel Orchestra for for over
Read more…Steelband tunes for a funeral - (With respect)
Memories (Sparrow) - Hatters (Independence RMX 2015)
How Great Thou Art - Hatters (Rio Claro benefit 2015)
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