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Cecil Hinkson: This article is like a Carnival documentary for you!

How we got from a kingdom of brass to where Carnival has been effectively dehorned offers as an uncannily accurate guide to where today’s festival is going.

http://www.guardian.co.tt/lifestyle/2017-03-07/carnival%E2%80%99s-future-reflected-brass

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CECIL HINKSON: Yuh love BOOGSIE too bad, man!

But you have to "wait til NEXT YEAR" for your MUSICAL PAN GENIUS to get back his CREEDS!!! Until then, you have a lot of NEGATIVE EXPOSURE to defend against!!!

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Trinidad URBAN MYTHS that I refuse to believe!!!!

1. BOOGSIE is a MUSICAL GENIUS!!!

2. PAN could play ANY KIND AH MUSIC!!!

3. DIMANCHE GRAS is the GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH!!!

4. TRINIDAD CARNIVAL is just LIKE BRAZIL CARNAVAL now!!!

5. TRINIDAD CARNIVAL is the GREATEST CARNIVAL IN THE WORLD!!!

6. EVERY

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Own Tunes On The Way OUT.

The Era of Own Tune in Panorama is Slowly Becoming a Thing of the Past. This Year  Most of the Wise Bands Went to Panorama with Popular Soca Pieces and Were Successful

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Do the foreign based arrangers really get respect from the local adjudicators in the large band category ?

We all know what happen to the Andre White with Desperadoes and off course Andy Norrel who is no longer with Birdsong.Note Skiffle with the three New York based arrangers are occupying the same stellar position they held in the 2016 finals.       

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So what are the odds of INVADERS winning PANORAMA or even coming in the TOP THREE?

I think the GLOBAL FUTURE of PAN would have been better served leaving INVADERS out and putting MIA in the FINALS. But then again how big is the GLOBAL PANORAMA AUDIENCE and how is PANORAMA helping in putting TRINIDAD TALENT on the GLOBAL PAN STAGE.

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Small bands finals

Is there any talks of a live feed for this one. I know single pan and small bands or like the outside children.

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PANORAMA DONE......

The day after could be bitter sweet for most pan players, no more nights of practice and life return to the normal everyday grind.

For a few they would learn another 2 tunes for J'ouvert and even fewer will be on the road for carnival.

After a night

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Panorama

Mean to tell me not one radio station or television could have bring across the small bands. I did my usual and about 4 stations and one channel had the calypso live all the same show, We need to do better man all this things that have live stream an

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KEITH DIAZ is WELL AGAIN and BACK ON THE SCENE!!!

The prayers from the WST FORUM worked like magic and KEITH DIAZ is well again and BACK ON THE SCENE.

He did not steal any money! People are just spreading malicious rumors saying: "we thief the money."

Here is where the money went!

“We have to pay ju

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ZERO SARCASM!!!

Right now in TRINIDAD, 10,000 PAN PLAYERS are putting their hearts and souls and time and energy and personal safety and love of culture and potential self-improvement and "WHAT HAVE YOU" (a Trinidad expression I never liked and never ever used in my

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Up and coming events.

I love it when people entrusted to keep us in the wider world informed, are so parochial in their outlook. In case you have forgotten, the world in which we live is spilt into several time zones. It is not useful sending a message at 23:18 GMT for a

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National School of Music, QC and Buxton take honours at Pan-O-Rama

By Jonelle Fields February 23, 2017

Guyana - The National School of Music reigned supreme on Sunday when the curtains came down on the annual Pan-O-Rama competition at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

With its win in the large band category, the band

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This SO-CALLED Minister of Culture is really messing up things for PAN TRINBAGO and the collection of the GATE RECEIPTS!

Since this Minister of Culture was a SCHOOL GIRL -- big men have been running Pan Trinbago PANORAMA with the utmost honesty and accountability. Suddenly this woman is directing the NCC to take control of a function that we have been authorized to adm

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Well I thought that LIAM TEAGUE and SILVER STARS won the PANORAMA!!!

But for all the same reasons that MIA could not be PUT in the FINALS, LIAM could not be PUT in FIRST PLACE.

However, the PANORAMA is at a crossroads so all hope is NOT LOST!!!

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Small panorama

any stream for the show

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PAN ELDERS PRELIMS

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A Panorama 2017 Moment of Pure Musical Brilliance and A Lifetime Steups & SMH Memory

Every Panorama has that musical moment that makes you shake your head because it was so good. And then there is that complete opposite moment that makes you go "steups"

For me it was Skiffles' intro and ending on Final's night. That intro was big-tim

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Preparing for Panorama in the Pan Yard: A short Documentary

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With all the discussion about the MUSIC this PANORAMA, a little word of CAUTION!!!

I have posted this CALYPSO many times before, but I am posting it again amidst the PANORAMA EUPHORIA and the STRAYING of PAN from CALYPSO at PANORAMA.

Yuh think we could go to New Orleans and say we have JAZZ? So stick to your CALYPSO and doh make

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