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Does anyone on this forum know if we have the same set of judges for the large bands from the preliminaries all the way to the finals.

I understand that two of the judges are from Tobago. Also how is it possible for a band to get a lower score in the semi finals based on the critique each band gets in the prelims.This is the talk in the NY pan circles.      

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Steelband composers/writers being left out!!

In a 2017 it is a major challenge to write, compose and produce a "song for pan" knowing that soca music gets all the air play by extension popularity.

When you get a calypso queen title holder, the likes of Joanne Foster who knows how to execute pan

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PICK YOUR FINAL 5 FOR PANORAMA 2017

Semis finish, now it's down to the wire, give us your final 5.

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PAN: The Next Generation

At one point during pan historian Kim Johnson’s 2014 TedX talk in Port-of-Spain, he explained that “before pan is encountered as music, it is experienced as a form of belonging.”

“Learning (pan),” argued Johnson, “is through pleasure and love.”

Some

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PANORAMA GOOD MORNING: Come on leh we START THE PUMPING START THE PUMPING ...

PANORAMA TIME!!! Forget all your troubles and forget all your cares and let us listen to the SWEET SOUNDS of CALYPSO on PAN!!!

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I hope this so-called judge does not rule against MY PRESIDENT

As soon as allyuh hear how the judge rule today, please let me know.

Old PNM fighting Young PNM with ah Indian judge (Vasheist Kokaram) in the middle -- this PAN TING real real sweet!!!

We need ah new strategy Gregory Lindsay!!!

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Silver stars semifinal video??

Can someone help me locate the Silver Stars semifinal video? I have found just about every other large band. Thanks

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BEST GOOD MORNING........

Lets see who can call the correct order of the 5 large bands playing Good Morning after judging in the prelims.

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If PROFESSOR PHILMORE is right about the shortage of PAN PLAYERS this year, should DOCTOR DOLLY be blamed for the crisis this year?

Try to take a TOP DOWN view!!! But this possibility was hinted at earlier on this forum long before PROFESSOR PHILMORE (People should read PROFESSOR MERRYTONESTOTHEBONES postings more carefully) started FACING THE MUSIC. But as he said: Maybe now tha

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THE CARNIVAL BUBBLE

The last couple of columns looked at Carnival economics and concluded it looks like a scam, a massive feeding trough for political/cultural hogs. That conclusion was data-based–a parliamentary report on the NCC, government sources, and a basic knowle

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GERARD MENDEZ, PAN TRINBAGO JACKASS OF THE NIGHT

Breaking News- PAN TRINBAGO JACKASS OF THE NIGHT. Here we go again...... Imagine Gerard Mendez, Chairman of the Northern Region displayed total disrespect whilst CAL Invaders were performing for the judges.The Minister of Culture was present . He ope

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Just for the record: The NEW PAN TRINBAGO CABINET has already been selected!!!

So all this talk about putting in YOUNG and leaving out OLD is just the usual WST OLE TALK. But I still do not see DOCTOR DOLLY or the UPPM or JAH or ALLAH moving Keith Diaz out of office without a prolonged court fight. Heck, the AUDIT DRAMA alone i

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Time for Desperadoes separate themselves from all connections to Diaz

Any connection with Diaz will only tarnish the Desperadoes legacy and history. Let Diaz leech on to an imagainary single pan band to run Pan Trinbago.

bugs

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Once in a GREAT WHILE a Calypso Composer structures a HIT CALYPSO that lends itself to the STEELBAND EXPRESSION. This year GOOD MORNING rises to those LOFTY HEIGHTS!

PANORAMA ARRANGERS (The most PAN KNOWLEDGEABLE PEOPLE in the world) know this and they JUMP ON THE SONG. The more others are playing it the greater the PANORAMA CHALLENGE.

Ah doh know what everybody complaining about!!!

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FIVE BANDS fighting for TWO SPOTS in PANORAMA FINALS (Large Bands) -- tears will flow!!! They leave out MIA and PROFESSOR!

It is hard to see ALL STARS or DESPERADOES or EXODUS or PHASE II or RENEGADES or SILVER STARS or STARLIFT or SUPERNOVAS -- OUT OF THE FINALS.

Which means that there will be only TWO SPOTS left. So BIRDSONG and FONCLAIRE and INVADERS and SKIFFLE and T

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LET'S GET REAL!!! All this TALK about TAKING DOWN KEITH DIAZ is HOGWASH!!!

People PUFFING UP DEY CHEST talking and protesting and parliamenting  and auditing to take down KEITH DIAZ and that is NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.

Set up a WEBSITE with the DOMAIN NAME www.panstrinbago.com and then call me and we could BRING DOWN KEITH DIAZ

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PICK THE FIRST 5 BANDS IN PANORAMA 2017.

We have heard all the large bands put down the music for 2017 Panorama, how do you think it will end this year. Let's see who can pick the first 5 bands.

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MERRYTONES TO THE BONE: You are ICE WATER? Leh the forum hear yuh!!!

https://www.mixcloud.com/PanoramaLive/2017-panorama-prelim-ice-waters-people-kes-the-band-single-pan-north/

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EXODUS: "Theirs was the most energetic performance seen in the Large Band category."

East big bands shine

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Dr. deLight: Leh we forget all this PAN TRINBAGO politics and talk about PAN MUSIC!!!

Look: AMERICA have over THREE HUNDRED and THIRTY MILLION PEOPLE and they cannot find ONE GOOD LEADER. So why are people putting so much pressure on little PAN TRINBAGO to find a good leader.

Anyway, I was listening to the Single Pan eliminations and

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