You have all these MUSICAL GENIUSES down in TRINIDAD and NOBODY was able (willing?) to pull her aside and point out her OBVIOUS WEAKNESS as a PAN SOLOIST.
And remember: I doh know NOTHING ABOUT PAN OR PAN MUSIC or ANY KIND AH MUSIC!!!.
At the same time, during the competition -- one of the MOST HIGHLY RESPECTED PANNIST in TRINIDAD was taking bets that KEISHA was going to WIN THE COMPETITION .. so allyuh could add the detriment of the 1981 square miles MENTALITY.to our PAN DEMISE!!!
Look, big old men does spend their days talking about PAN IN THE SIXTIES and bringing PAN back on the road with people pushing and who win which PANORAMA 50 years ago.
So I don't feel too guilty talking about an event that is two weeks old and which will mark a TURNING POINT in the direction of MUSICAL PERFORMANCE in TRINIDAD and TOBAGO for decades to come.
If we want to go forward, we have to face the weaknesses and WORK ON THEM!!!
Look!!! I am THE MOST DEPRESSED OF ALL. Because I spent a decade on THIS FORUM dreaming about a PAN STAR from TRINIDAD going GLOBAL. Well, DAT EH GOING AND HAPPEN in MY LIFETIME. And I blame it all on THE LOCAL ARROGANCE.
I read an article years ago that defined THIRD WORLD as NOT KNOWING but THINKING that YOU KNOW. Well, I could tell you that the LOCALS do not have a CLUE about what GLOBAL PAN MUSIC IS -- but they sure think that they know.
I AM DEPRESSED!!!
THE TRINIS should look at the KHAN CORDICE performance (not for content) but for APPROACH and they could learn a WHOLE LOT!!!
Where is PAN TRINBAGO in all this -- THE IGNORANCE of the claim to be the WORLD GOVERNING BODY OF PAN.
I am not going to RAG ON BEVERLEY -- but how inept could that organization be. And why did they stand in the way of more PROGRESSIVE LEADERS.
DANE GULSTON as ERO!!! Gerard Mendez a TREASURER and the Ex-VEE PEE who has defrauded his region of over $75,000 -- all in a war today with MADAME PRESIDENT bringing the organization to a dysfunctional halt .. while people like CECIL and EARL and BERTEL and IAN and Arthur and Michael and 100 others blindly follow and praise her without even knowing that the ADMINISTRATION has failed and WILL DELIVER NOTHING for the rest of the term.
And DENISE HERNANDEZ!!! With all her BIG TALK GOING INTO THE ELECTION -- not ONE WORD SINCE!!!\
THIS IS ALL SO SHAMEFUL.
I should be dancing because I spent 45 years arguing with TRINIS telling them that they KNOW NOTHING ABOUT SOLOING and losing the argument until 2020. Reminds me of when ROMNEY told OBAMA that RUSSIA was the greatest geo-political foe of AMERICA. And OBAMA mocked him and told him that he was STUCK in the fifties and everybody laughed at ROMNEY!!! Ah doh have to explain how the cards fell after that!! Even the COVID VIRUS is related to this story -- but ....
Man, I spent the last 50 years dreaming about a PAN STAR emerging from TRINIDAD and going GLOBAL only to see that dream crash with this 2020 PAN RAMAJAY.
Best ah spend meh time hanging out in the RED LIGHT DISTRICT rather than chasing an IMPOSSIBLE PAN DREAM. Hell, even CRACK or OPIOIDS MAY BE BETTER.
I AM DEPRESSED!!!
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Claude,
I feel for you. so I will stay and keep your company since the writing has been on the wall for quite some time.
Brenda H