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Southern dreams with a Northern attitude - The Three Amigos from the Big Apple Head to the Panorama Finals with Skiffle Steel Orchestra

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Marc Brooks, Kendall Williams, Odie Franklin @ Skiffle Steel Orchestra’s panyard --
photo by Elroy “Panjumbie” Primus

One thing is for certain this year at the 2016 Panorama Finals in Trinidad and Tobago; after Skiffle performs the structural

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Phase II Pan Groove Steel Orchestra in Panorama Finals with Madd Genius, Madd Skills, Madd Players and Madd Music

by When Steel Talks

This music is mad music
This music is mad people music
Time to get on bad music
This music is bacchanal music
So jump up like
We mad
And party like
We mad
Enjoy we life
Cause it’s bacchanal day and night -
Madd Music --

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Liam Teague on Panorama 2016 - Up-Close!

Liam Teague

Global - “I simply want to create music that will touch the heart, soul and intellect of the masses. If that brings Panorama victory one day, then that would be the icing on the cake.”

In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks - panist extrao

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Meet Cherylee Goddard-Legair - Trinidad & Tobago

Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

Trinidad and Tobago - “For me, to play something that came about from a simple oil drum, but fascinates people around the world, is amazing.” - She is an intellectual, multi-talented, thoughtful, forwar

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Different Me - ‘Nobody Badder Dan We’ - Desperadoes Steel Orchestra Ready for Panorama Finals

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Oh lord is ah different side ah me
When ah pumping with energy
Different side ah me
They go see...

Different Me -- “5Star Akil”

The legendary Desperadoes Steel Orchestra have got their swagger back. And they are letting ever

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Meet Krystal Nestor - St. Lucia

Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

St. Lucia, W.I. - “I remember standing on the road side watching and listening to a steel band and I got lost in the music. It was then I promised myself that I had to learn to play the steel pan. Whe

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An Open Letter To My Dear Friend of Panorama, Poet Mervyn Taylor by Dalton Narine

Thanks for the sentiment, Merv.

This year’s big ‘do may turn out to be a Panorama to remember.

Robbie down by the stadium with Starlift, probably holding a grudge against Despers;

Zanda traveling from Siparia Deltones to Greyfriars with his earthy ar

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Joey Lewis, A Musical Trail-Blazer

Global - The term “icon” is tossed around much too loosely in our culture. Happily, it was not wasted on Joey Lewis, a giant of a musical presence not only in his native Trinidad and Tobago, but throughout the Eastern Caribbean, ever since he became

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2016 Panorama Rules - Trinidad & Tobago

TABLE OF CONTENTS·

1	Authority
2	Definitions
3	Management
4	Registration
5	Participation
6	Music
7	Adjudication
8	Arrangers
9	Procedure for Competition
10	Preliminary Rounds
11	National Semi Finals
12	National Finals

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Giant of the Titans -- Pan's past, present and future share their thought on Jit Samaroo with WST

“Jit Samaroo was the consummate musician. He created a lasting body of wonderful music for the steel orchestra but his humility, his quiet strength, his willingness to share his knowledge and wealth of experience, left a blueprint for musical life...

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New Great “Chunes” for Days - Large Band have no Time for “Retro” Panorama - NEW Songs is it...

Global - One thing Trinidad and Tobago Panorama 2016 will be remembered for, is the great ‘new’ music each of the big boys - large conventional steel orchestra (large band) category - embraced on their journey to Panorama Champion Gold. Making a big

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Not your parents’ carnival

Times change, and Carnival changes with it — for better or for worse? Mark Lyndersay, Laura Dowrich, and Tracy Assing talk to eight Carnival insiders about the state of the mas and the state of the music, where the festival is heading, and how it wil

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New Soca Tunes for Carnival 2016 - Trinidad and Tobago

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Ten Years Later - Clive Bradley Remembered

"Clive Bradley was not just a musician, he was a genius. A very talented and also a very professional person. So analytical was Bradley's mind that he did everything in depth."

- Merle Albino-de Coteau - noted adjudicator, musician, historian, arr

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The Saga of Jit Samaroo - From Nobody To Somebody to Iron Man to the Great Beyond

by Simeon L. Sandiford

“Somebody will win this Panorama” quipped Keith Matthews of Trinidad All Stars as no fewer than nine bands played Winsford ‘Joker’ Des Vignes’ title song of 1989. In 1990 Jit whipped the field again with Lord Kitchener’s immort

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Do you know the first woman to...?

Miss Kimberli St. Clair will again lead Tunapuna All Stars as their arranger for Panorama 2016. She will be joined by Vanessa Headley, of Golden Hands, Shenelle Abraham, of St. Margaret’s Superstars, Jeannine Remy, of Hatter and Michelle Huggins-

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JIT by DALTON NARINE

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Global - Just a single name encapsulates this slight man, what he became and the huge legacy he left pan and country.

Imagine a shy East Indian panman/ arranger from Surrey, Lopinot, not your ordinary panist at all, being

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Happy Birthday to Ellie Mannette

When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to panist, tuner and inventor Ellie Mannette.

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Happy Birthday to Panist, Arranger and Composer Len "Boogsie" Sharpe

When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to the legendary Len "Boogsie" Sharpe

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Most Memorable Pan Moments of 2015 - What are yours?

2015 had many memorable steelpan music moments for us at When Steel Talks. Here are few of ours what are yours?

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Southern dreams with a Northern attitude - The Three Amigos from the Big Apple Head to the Panorama Finals with Skiffle Steel Orchestra

Phase II Pan Groove Steel Orchestra in Panorama Finals with Madd Genius, Madd Skills, Madd Players and Madd Music

Liam Teague on Panorama 2016 - Up-Close!

Meet Cherylee Goddard-Legair - Trinidad & Tobago

Different Me - ‘Nobody Badder Dan We’ - Desperadoes Steel Orchestra Ready for Panorama Finals

Meet Krystal Nestor - St. Lucia

Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

An Open Letter To My Dear Friend of Panorama, Poet Mervyn Taylor by Dalton Narine

Joey Lewis, A Musical Trail-Blazer

2016 Panorama Rules - Trinidad & Tobago

Giant of the Titans -- Pan's past, present and future share their thought on Jit Samaroo with WST

New Great “Chunes” for Days - Large Band have no Time for “Retro” Panorama - NEW Songs is it...

Not your parents’ carnival

New Soca Tunes for Carnival 2016 - Trinidad and Tobago

Ten Years Later - Clive Bradley Remembered

The Saga of Jit Samaroo - From Nobody To Somebody to Iron Man to the Great Beyond

Do you know the first woman to...?

JIT by DALTON NARINE

Happy Birthday to Ellie Mannette

Happy Birthday to Panist, Arranger and Composer Len "Boogsie" Sharpe

Most Memorable Pan Moments of 2015 - What are yours?

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