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PASSING OF AGATHA HERNANDEZ...FOR THOSE WHO KNEW HER VINCENT HERNANDEZ'S WIFE

I would like to announce the passing of Agatha Hernandez this morning. She was the beloved wife of VIncent Hernandez who was the pan maker and owner of Satisifiers Steel Orchestra. For further information you can contact me her grandaughter at darknl

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Making of Pantonic Live - Bradley & Pantonic - In My House - Another Basement Producion

Earlier this week we posted a slow version of New York's Pan Rebels playing "In My House" as arranged by Len 'Boogsie' Sharpe in 1999. Additionally, this was a very special year as it heralded the return of Clive Bradley to the New York panorama arra

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Single Pan Semi Finalist - Trinidad and Tobago 2009 Panorama

Thirty two (32) Single Pan Bands have qualified for the National Semi Finals which will be staged regionally. With a score of 273 points, Defence Force playing the Alston Becket Cyrus composition “Teaser” arranged by Terrence BJ Marcelle topped the

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What do you think of TnT Panorama 2009?

What do you think of TnT Panorama 2009? Do you like the rule changes? Do you agree with the results? Do like the choices of tunes? Do you like the arena?

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Victor Prescod - Performer, Educator and Adjudicator - In the Spotlight

Project Coordinator of the Pan in the Classroom Project Unit Global - Bright, articulate, immensely talented, intellectual, down-to-earth and forthright are all words that can be aptly applied in the description of this young man. He is a music educ

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Condolences to Len "Boogsie" Sharpe

When Steel Talks extends our sincere condolences to Len "Boogsie" Sharpe and family on the passing of his brother Wilfred. http://www.panonthenet.com/online/index.htm

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CHOOSING THE BEST BAND IN THE WORLD

HI. This is what JACK asked me to write for him. He says,"YOU CAN'T CHOOSE THE BEST BAND IN THE WORLD. NO ONE BAND IS A MASTER OF ALL GENRES. ONE MAY BE THE BEST CLASSICAL, ANOTHER THE BEST CONTEMPORARY, ETC., BUT NO ONE BAND IS A MASTER OF ALL. EVEN

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Video Blast From the Past - Marsican Steel Orchestra - Performing Celebrate - 2004

100 Marsicans steelpan players prepare for the New York panorama competition. The session was recorded by Basement Recordings for the 2004 New York Panyards DVD and CD. Basement Recordings is well know for producing the best recordings of live st

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Reboot -- Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer Speaks on Pan and Its Importance to the Caribbean Region

Antigua & Barbuda, W.I. - While When Steel Talks was visiting the panyards on our recent trip to Antigua we caught up with the country’s Prime Minister, the Honourable Baldwin Spencer who was in Halcyon Steel Orchestra’s panyard taking in a practice

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