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At the RISK of MAKING ENEMIES, I have to tip my hat to RUSSELL PROVIDENCE!!!

Ah never see ONE MAN come and shake up the forum so. Especially the WHOLE CIP ARMY. Now I know for ah fact ("for ah fact" -- ah even have to watch my redundancy now when I post ... Lord have Mercy this vernacular ting go get me in trouble) that the C

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Allan Gervais - Master Steelpan Tuner - A Legend

Allan Gervais was one of the finest tuners in his era. He was quick and excelled on all the steelpan instruments. He was considered to be one of the best, if not, the best, with respect to the maintenance of the instruments and was able to bring out

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Well, my interest on this FORUM has always been about taking the PAN MUSIC GLOBAL. So I always revert to asking: WHERE IS THE MUSIC?

And people have a habit of trying to push all kinda half-baked music and unqualified PAN MEN on me and demand that I like it/them. But THE WORLD knows good music when it hears it. And if your music is GOOD ENOUGH you will get invited to play on BIG W

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Upset pannists want new executive before Carnival 2018* PANDEMONIUM

PANDEMONIUM

• Published on Oct 29, 2017, 10:41 pm AST
• By Michelle Loubon
  michelle.loubon@trinidadexpress.com

Pan Trinbago's annual general meeting (AGM) descended into chaos yesterday after a motion was moved to remove Pan Trinbago president Keith D

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Classical Jewels in steelband music

This weekend’s premier steelband event is tonight’s Classical Jewels XI (Journey From Jules to Jemmott) being staged by Massy Trinidad All Stars at the National Academy for the Performing A

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Doctor deLight: I NEED YOUR HELP!!! The PRESIDENT (of PAN TRINBAGO) in waiting came on this forum and called me a BANDWAGONIST

Dr. deLight: I need you to vouch for me, being the supreme intellectual and psychologist that you are. Just because I happened to agree with a few of the points that Russell Providence made (points that I have pointed out many times over the years),

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Rudy Smith Quartet: Glass World (Stunt Records) Out now

By Simon Redley -- 

Music Republic Magazine

(4 / 5) 

Miss the summer? Yeah, in the UK, blink and we missed it! No, I mean; do you yearn for the warmer and longer days, now the chill winds, rain, fog, ice and no doubt; soon-to-come snow, is with us?

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But I thought GREGORY LINDSAY was a BIG SOLDIER in the CIP ARMY. And ah man come on this forum and shred the CIP to threads and NO GREGORY LINDSAY!!!

I am removing GREGORY LINDSAY from my list of candidates for PRESIDENT OF PAN TRINBAGO!!!

I am down to 29 CANDIDATES now!!!

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Emmanuel “Jack” Riley - A Legend

He is one of the most important improvisational panist and soloist in the history of Pan. Emmanuel “Jack” Riley - Master Panist, Steelpan Tuner
click on link for more http://ow.ly/MK1K3057awg

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Ussa election

I any way want to start any confusion, I have seen some post about meetings being held and all pan players can attend etc cause they want change. My thing is did any of these people holding these meetings submit their names to be the president of USS

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So where is BYRON SERRETTE? I thought he was writing a TELL ALL BOOK on "Keith Diaz and CORRUPTION in PAN TRINBAGO"

Bryon Serrette burst on the ANTI-DIAZ scene with a massive media blitz promising a BOOK OF REVELATION on the CORRUPT PRACTICES of FORTEAU and DIAZ in PAN TRINBAGO. And then the man just disappear from the scene like JIMMY HOFFA. But I think that he i

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On Thursday (November 9th) ANDY NARELL gets inducted into the PERCUSSIVE ARTS SOCIETY Hall of Fame

Andy Narell

With his first solo album in 1979 Andy Narell took the steelpan out of the steel band and brought it into the jazz band, and with every recording and concert since, he has explored the possibilities and expanded the role of the pan in con

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DIAZ, FORTEAU, NCC and DOCTOR DOLLY deal MORTAL BLOW to THE CONCERNED INDIVIDUALS FOR PAN!!!

Who in their right mind would run a PUBLIC CAMPAIGN against  THE RIGHT HONOURBALE KEITH DIAZ? Months ago I offered THE CIP my political consulting services to TAKE DOWN KEITH DIAZ with a subversive internet onslaught -- but they refused my offer thin

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All the BLUFFING going on at the TOP with THE NCC and THE MINISTER OF CULTURE and PAN TRINBAGO ...

but if you come on this FORUM with the slightest suggestion that the LOWLY PAN MEN could pull a BLUFF and threaten to BOYCOTT the PANORAMA unless they get a BETTER DEAL -- everybody starts to PANIC and insist that they  should just SHOW UP AND PLAY a

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If I was a BLEEDING HEART PAN LOVER driven by TRADITIONAL EMOTION and I saw this passage (below) from the Narine/Narell article, I would become a PAN MUSIC ACTIVIST immediately!!!

“Actually, there’s a story here,” Narell lets on, “but not the one you think. I’m working on a project with Ellie and Darren Dyke (one of the tuners he’s trained). We are sampling the whole steel band, one note at a time, to create virtual instrument

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GREGORY LINDSAY: Let me see if I get this right about the deal between PAN TRINBAGO and DOCTOR DOLLY

So PAN TRINBAGO met with the NCC and worked out the details of FUNDING PANORAMA 2018 to the detriment of PAN MEN and then DOCTOR DOLLY signed off on the whole deal and then put her new NCC team in place and we are FORWARDING to PANORAMA 2018.

KEITH D

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FOR IMMEDIATE TRANSMISSION : PRESS RELEASE - Response to Michael Joseph PRO PanTrinbago

FOR IMMEDIATE PUBLIC TRANSMISSION: PRESS RELEASE 28.10.2017 Attention - Michael Joseph Public Relations Officer Pan Trinbago. Re : RESPONSE TO STATEMENT BY MICHAEL JOSEPH, PRO Pan Trinbago Michael Joseph...aka Brother Scobie ..Greetings!! In th

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The quickest way to REMOVE KEITH DIAZ from office is to BOYCOTT PANORAMA 2018

KEITH DIAZ stands to make about THREE MILLION DOLLARS from PANORAMA 2018!!! Stop that CASHFLOW and he is a HALF DEAD MAN limping into the 2018 elections. Vulnerable for the first time in years.
But we love we PANORAMA so bad/to boycott it yuh have to

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Introduction of Pan clash @Tabernacle 2017. 10th Anniversary

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Panorama in the Diaspora

Most of the focus of this forum has been on issues faced by pan players in TT and Brooklyn. And rightly so, especially since these are the venues of the major panorama competitions and pan players and thus the finances and the opportunities for misma

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