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Stefon West Wins New Position At Peace Drums, Israel
Author: Caitlyn Kamminga
UTT APA is delighted to announce that Stefon West, pan student of Dr. Mia Gormandy-Benjamin, has just accepted a position to teach in Haifa, Israel as a part of the Peace Drums Project. Peace Drums is a unique interfaith ini
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Live! -- NIU Steelband Concert Spring 2019
NIU Steelband
Liam Teague & Yuko Asada, directors
Marche Slave by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, adapt. Liam Teague*
Summer Song by Clifford Alexis
+Savannah Grass by Kees Dieffenthaller/Jelani “Pops” Shaw, arr. Charlton Alfonso
+Algorhythm by Robert
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Steel Drums - "Accompong"
Jamaican-born pianist, Monty Alexander, performing his original composition "Accompong" with Othello Molineaux and Len "Boogsie" Sharpe on steel drums, Marshall Wood, on bass, Marvin "Smitty" Smith on drums Robert Thomas, Jr., hand drums...
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CONSIDER THE SAVANNAH GRASS..
As an alternative to Pan Yard judging, the facilities at the Savannah should be given serious consideration for the preliminary round of Panorama 2020.
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Panorama 2019; would players be paid? Changing of the guards as old arrangers struggle; Dr. Mia Gormandy exceptional voice for commentary.
Panorama 2019; would players be paid? Changing of the guards as old arrangers struggle; Dr. Mia Gormandy exceptional voice for commentary.
By Aquil Arrindell
Commentary
Dr. Mia Gormandy stood out as the most delightful aspect of the Panorama for
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With Spicemas and Panorama less than five months away, the Grenada SteelBands Association (GSA) is still beset by infighting.
THE NEW TODAY understands that the current executive led by Jason Skeete has written to the Minister of Culture, Senator Nolan Cox warning him of reprisals if the government entertains another group that is made up of some pannists associated with th
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The Cobre Steel Band
With a fruitful, 30-year career under its belt, the Cobre Steel Band has won a spot in the musical tastes of Cubans
author: Eduardo Palomares Calderón
SANTIAGO DE CUBA.– With a fruitful, 30-year career under its belt, the Cobre Steel Band has won
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Meet Syanne Fleming - New York, USA -- Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form
“For me personally, I am most proud of throwing myself into learning a new Pan (cello) when I first began playing with PESO, and I am still currently playing it and loving it. When it comes to the Pan community, I am most proud of the continuous str
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If an 808-style drum programming can get you kicked off of a Billboard chart - what will the sound of a steelpan playing a Soca riff get you?
Lil Nas X’s ‘Old Town Road’ Was a Country Hit. Then Country Changed Its Mind
The viral phenomenon blew up so fast radio professionals had to rip it from YouTube to play it on the air, and the music industry is still scrambling to decide what, exact
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Rag Storm Drama Continues....by Sharmain Baboolal
WTH! Fake News?
Nope, it’s true.
So you thought that the Panorama Drama ended on February 22nd when Justice Kevin Ramcharan granted an injunction that cleared the way for Exodus to change their tune of choice for the Finals of the 2019 Panorama comp
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The Art of Obeah
SHEREEN ALI
“Ase, Ase, Ase” rang through the air at the opening prayers of Convois 2019, a two-week tribute to artists Winston “Shadow” Bailey and Leroy Clarke hosted by the Lloyd Best Institute of the Caribbean in Tunapuna.
The Convois this year cel
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For Etienne Charles, Jazz and Caribbean Music Are One and the Same
The NY Times
EAST LANSING, Mich. — The trumpeter Etienne Charles stood in a Michigan State University classroom on a recent Tuesday evening — about 2,000 miles north and 50 degrees Fahrenheit south of his native Trinidad — and spoke to the undergrad
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Time to review Road March (Says DOCTOR DOLLY]
Newsday March 9, 2019
THE time has come to look differently at how the Road March competition is judged, Minister of Community Development, Culture and the Arts Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly said yesterday.
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Live Music District is Back and set to storm Ariapita Avenue!
Port of Spain, 19th March 2019: The Trinidad and Tobago Music Company Limited (MUSICTT) kicks off Phase III of its Live Music District (LMD) with the return of its free signature event that will take place on Saturday 30th March 2019 from 6:00 pm at
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SteelBand Fest Raises More Than $2K for Teacher
Hundreds flocked to John Marshall High School last weekend in support of a local teacher afflicted with breast cancer, raising nearly $2,100 at the Steel Band Fest.
Band Director Tracey Filben said the turnout was “fantastic” for the event, which oc
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my mothe birthday april 13th,gone but not forgottenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOu2kyXL6Hs
my momleft me but I wilnot forget her, birth is april13th,
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Gypsy: Tobago will profit from own Carnival
National Carnival Commission (NCC) chairman Winston "Gypsy" Peters holds firm to his belief that a Tobago Carnival must be established as a permanent feature of the island's cultural identity.
"The economics of Carnival will tell you that if you have
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Panorama shake-up
Trinidad Express
COMPETITION A SUCCESS: Beverly Ramsey-Moore
Pan Trinbago president Beverly Ramsey-Moore has declared Panorama 2019 to be a complete success.
Speaking with the Express at the Panorama prize-giving ceremony on Saturday evening
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