Is Carnival in Trinidad Overrated?
Trinidad Carnival is merely “a drop in the bucket” when compared to carnivals in the Diaspora and beyond.
For example, the Caribbean Carnivals, Caribana in Toronto, Labor Day in Brooklyn, NY and Notting Hill Carniva
Read more…Or is everyone succumbed to this performing rights and intellectual property rubbish?
If you go out in public to play mas you have no rights to anonymity, performance or expectation of privacy.
You are on the public road. Unless you want everyone t
Read more…We have Jonathan Scales in China (Asia) and we have Andy Narell in Europe and we have Victor Provost on the East Coast (USA). I say that we send our PAN JAZZ GENIUSES to South America or Africa or Australia or Antarctica to SHOW THE WORLD who could P
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Bailey Machado from FIRST who is enjoying learning the drums with Alvin Ronstant. Picture: Renae Droop.Quest Newpapers
AN EAGLEBY community organisation is giving disabled people the chance to play to the beat of a different drum and is holding spe
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
Read more…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!!!
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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.
Read more…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.
Read more…Is there any talks of a live feed for this one. I know single pan and small bands or like the outside children.
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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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