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This is one of the most insightful and honest articles I have read coming from a "TRINIDADIAN" (in the arts) in a very very very long time ...

So I shrank away into my own world, behind closed doors, trying to make the cultural milieu of TT more ready for world consumption.

 ... I try to help other local artists – both performing and visual – to understand how to approach their craft and ho

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Westminster Abbey Celebrates Windrush 70th Anniversary

The moving ceremony marked 70 years since the arrival of the Empire Windrush ship at Tilbury Docks and the influence of Caribbean migrants in the UK

 by Leah Sinclair 

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Music Education, Pan and Steelband Culture at CASYM’s 2018 Spring Concert

New York, U.S.A. - “I feel like Hulk! Hurrawr hurraaaawwwwrr!!” --- Those were toddlers to grandparents giving their ‘Hulk’ moments as they sang out in concert with CASYM Class Two. Yes - mommy, daddy, nana, ma, grandma, granddad, tantie, aunty,

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Favourite Sparrow

Sparrow has so many great calypsoes that so exqusitely capture the soul of the Nation; in lyrics, music and delivery;It is difficult to choose. Melda, Sa sa yeh, Phillip My Dear, "... George Bailey I will always remember; when ah steelband pas' playi

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Lennox Bobby Mohammed 75th Birthday Celebration tomorrow!

Yes, the great man will celebrate his 75th Birthday tomorrow. We will be joining with His Worship Alderman Junia Regrello at the Skiffle Pan Theatre to celebrate Bobby's Birthday. No way we can truly reward him for his outstanding contribution but he

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Part Two -- Meet Dave LaBarrie - Panist, Arranger, Educator and Administrator & Member of the famed 1967 T&T National Steelband - UpClose!

Global - He is a scholar, an intellect, a musician and a coach - just to name a few. Indeed, depending on when you crossed his multifaceted life, met or engaged him - the name Dave LaBarrie will ring differently to you. He’s been an assistant high

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Pan Trinbago Responds to: “TAKE PAN AWAY FROM PAN PLAYERS”

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Please allow me space to reply to an article written in the Daily Express by veteran journalist Keith Subero on Monday, 7th May 2018 titled TAKE PAN AWAY FROM PAN PLAYERS.

Two calypsos keep bouncing around in my head while

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Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all from When Steel Talks

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So let me see if I get this right that on PANORAMA FINALS NIGHT 2018 some players played with MORE than ONE BAND on the same SAVANNAH STAGE in the LARGE BAND CATEGORY

There were 10 BANDS in THE FINALS. Am I to understand that some players played for RENEGADES and then they went and CHANGE CLOTHES and played for maybe SKIFFLE or PHASE II or INVADERS or ALL STARS or SUPERNOVAS or EXODUS or STARLIFT or SILVER STARS o

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What really happened in the court case: Pan Trinbago against Keith Diaz.

What really happened in the court case: Pan Trinbago against Keith Diaz.

 

By Aquil Arrindell

 

I have never entered a courtroom in my life. However, for this case I took the time out to observe and learn so that I can properly inform my membership.

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Duvonne Stewart pays tribute to Tobagonians for enduring support

Pannist/arranger Duvone Stewart plays the pan at the International Music Night of the Tobago Jazz experience at the Pigeon Park Heritage Park on Sunday.

Tobagonian-born pannist and Duvone Stewart was literally brought to tears on Sunday evening, as

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BULLIED AND ASSAULTED FOR WHEN STEEL TALKS ARTICLES

On Saturday June 21st 2014, I attended the free Concert hosted by Pan Trinbago and the Deputy Mayor of the Port of Spain City Corporation [advertised in the Express Newspaper of June 17th on pg.44 – the final line of the article stated that the “publ

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Happy Birthday to Calypso Rose - April 27

When Steel Talks extends greetings to Calypso Rose (Rose McCartha Linda Sandy Lewis) on her 78th birthday!

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REPORT from THE BIG MEETING by GREGORY LINDSAY

Central Executive committee is voted out....A caretaker committee has been been installed comprising of Chairmen and one other official from each Regional Executive, the former President, the former Treasurer and 2 other persons to be appointed by t

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Please leave - AINSWORTH MOHAMMED - Newsday

THE EDITOR: In the interest of the steelband movement I do not wish to tarnish the Pan Trinbago brand, though the organisation has done that all on its own. I have never publicly denounced Pan Trinbago in spite of the fact that it has been poorly adm

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MV Empire Windrush - West Indian immigrants - Lord Kitchener, Lord Woodbine - Calypso, Pan and the UK

Main article: British African-Caribbean community

In 1948, the Empire Windrush was en route from Australia to England via the Atlantic, docking in Kingston, Jamaica. An advert had appeared in a Jamaican newspaper offering cheap transport on the shi

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Don’t blame Diaz. Drink a beer syndrome determines our president.

             

Don’t blame Diaz. Drink a beer syndrome determines our president.

By: Andy Edwards

The time for change in Pan Trinbago’s executive is now. However, this change should not go without a change in the thinking of band leaders. The unpreced

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Revisited - Merle Albino-de Coteau - Steelband Music pioneer, adjudicator, educator speaks on Panorama 2012

“...sometimes describing oneself as a Panist can be met with disgust and even discrimination. The question which follows is “What else do you do?” ...the area from which you have come also sometimes brings discrimination.”  Merle Albino-de Coteau.

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Revisited - Dr. Dawn K. Batson - Chairperson for the Visual and Performing Arts, Professor of Music, Artist and Mentor - speaks on Pan & Panorama

Global - In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks - panist and Director of Florida Memorial University Steelband—Dr. Dawn Batson—shares her overall views on Pan, Panorama and more...

 

I have also tried to share my belief that music should nev

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Meet Nicole Archer Trinidad & Tobago - Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

Meet Nicole Archer
Trinidad & Tobago

Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - “Playing pan is my therapy, my ultimate relaxation, my one constant throughout the years. I don’t think I can properly explain the feeling

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