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Honour Sterling, Ellie, Anthony and Ralph with The Order of Trinidad and Tobago

Today only Sterling Betancourt, Ellie Mannette and Anthony Williams are still alive and as a nation we would be amiss, if we fail to honour our patriots with The Order of Trinidad and Tobago at our 50th anniversary celebrations of nationhood in 2012.

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Services for Bertram (Speedy) Ash Small

Bertram “Speedy” Ash Small was a pioneer for the steelband fraternity of New York, founding member of Humming Birds Steel Orchestra (USA) together with Ellie Mannette, founded and led EXZIBITS Steel Orchestra (USA), and former member of Desperadoes (

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Help Bring Pan Into The 21st Century! (Pass It On)

TO ALL WST MEMBERS! Salmon E-Pan Man-Cupid's Toronto All Stars Steel Orchestra, made it to the Top 20, during auditions for the upcoming "Canada's Got Talent" (due to air this March). Please support Salmon and his students, by going to the following

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49 Bands performing in the semi-finals is too much

The show start at 10:00 am and finish at 2:45 am (monday morning) at 11:30 pm people's start leaving the show - only a few hundred die-hard pan fans stay until the show is finish.

My suggestion, stage single bands and small bands for their show - 16

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fastest woman bass player

The fastest Woman Bass Player that I have seen is the woman from Samaroo jets at the 1986 music festival, she is fast and very smooth, the other one I have seen is from Oasis steel band (new jersey), if there is anyone that is faster than the one fro

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Pick the first three in the finals of Panorama 2012.

The day after THE ARCHBISHOP OF PAN and the PROPHET OF PAN meet the JUDGE OF PAN there is weeping and gnashing of teeth, ah few middle fingers and some obscene language but as they say the show must go on, so lets see who can pick the first three ban

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Where is DeFosto Pan Tunes?

A few years ago DeFosto declare himself Kitchener heir for pan tunes - it seems as though he stumble..

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Selwyn Baptiste: Wake and funeral information (updated)

SELWYN BAPTISTE

 

Selwyn Baptiste, pioneer of the Notting Hill Carnival, died on 5 January 2012 following a long battle with cancer. Selwyn moved from Trinidad to the UK in 1960 and soon became involved in the community of Notting Hill. He establishe

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Too much music?

I don't think that there is another country that produce as much music as Trinidad every year. But every year most of that music die after 3 or 4 months, we produce the most music but we also discard the most music. In a Guardian article Leston Paul

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Exit of a giant

I'm at a loss for words, first of all am I right in saying, there have never been a panorama finals without Despers????...

Aside from all that, the issue is, was Despers performance substandard? the answer is NOOOO!!!!!

Andre, brought a whole new con

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Antigua's Moods of Pan 25-a-side competition - 2011 results

 The results were as follows:

1^st     Hadeed Group of Companies AMP Halcyon

2^nd    Panache Steel Orchestra

3^rd     LIME Hells Gate Steel Orchestra

4^th     East Vibes Steel Orchestra

5^th     WIOC Gemonites Steel Orchestra

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What do you think [2]

The Judges should let each band know how many points they score right after their performance.

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Account for Carnival money

THE CARNIVAL SEASON is upon us, and from what I read the Carnival stakeholdres have presented their varying budgets which run into millions of dollars.

Example Pan Trinbago requested $50 million to do their thing and got half - still a lot of money,

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International Soca Awards - Comedy of errors

THE International Soca Awards which took place at NAPA on Saturday 26th November 2011 was a comedy of errors that was only saved by Master of Ceremonies and comedian, Tommy Joseph.

Hosted by US-based iSA organization, SAO Soca Awards Ltd/Soca Awards

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What do you think?

Anyone know if there is a deadline for submission of pan songs for Panorama?  I think it is only fair that all bands have the same pool of songs from which to choose. Arrangers and bands need a certain amount of time to figure out which tune  they fe

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NBC’s Sing Off and the Lowering of America’s Music IQ - We are singing the “Afro Blues”

NBC’s Sing Off and the Lowering of America’s Music IQ
We are singing the “Afro Blues”

New York, USA - Much congratulations to third-season Sing Off winners - Pentatonix - they are a great group with extraordinary music acumen. With a cash purse of $

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PanTrinbago Headquarters'

 

THIS PICTURE IS A NATIONAL DISGRACE - this is the belly of the corruption in Trinidad & Tobago - for what ever reason this building PanTrinbago Headquater at Churchill Rosevelt Highway in Trincity at this condition since 8 years ago. It is a Nation

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Is Panorama predictable?

After viewing the 10 bands from 2011 finals I don't see much change for 2012 with the exception of Renegades. What do you think?

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Soca & Calypso project

Hey all, 

I'm a music student, doing a project on Soca & Calypso Music and I wanted to know if any of you would like to help me out! Me & my partner are trying to teach the people in our class about Soca & Calypso and trying to put the music out the

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pick two bands

Ok so here we go, I'm unable to pick two outright bands at this point, because its still early days and yuh know master Boogise have a few tricks up his sleeve?! so I think I would wait for the semi to see who dropping the biggest bombs, simply becau

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