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‘50 years, and we jamming still,’ Senator Lewis says as he congratulates Halcyon Steel

Antigua Observer

Antigua & Barbuda, W.I. - “It has been 50 years, and we jamming still; 50 years, with musical talent and skill; 50 years of pan music in the air; 50 years, with passion, style and flair; 50 years of providing the nation with pulsat

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Pan Trinbago pays tribute to stalwarts

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday 

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago, in celebrating its 50th anniversary, paid tribute to some of Trinidad and Tobago’s outstanding arrangers, tuners and steel bands in a gala awards ceremony at Cascadia Hotel, St Ann’

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Tony Williams to Mark 50th Anniversary of Voices of Spring on 81st Birthday

Global - Anthony Williams, leader and arranger of the defunct Pan Am North Stars, has planned a special occasion to celebrate his 81st birthday.

On June 24, at the St. James Amphitheatre, Williams will commemorate the 50th year of the band’s renditio

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Desperadoes Steel Orchestra And The 50th Panorama

by Dalton Narine

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Desperadoes wasn’t at the finals on Panorama night, in part because the average fan could have hardly recognized the personality of the band, though 42-year tenor player Ursula Tudor stood out as usual.

 

 

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Yet Another Slight For The Steelbands By The Trinidad & Tobago Government?

I hope I misunderstood, but I was perusing the Express Online this morning, and I read where PM Kamla Bissesar, and her administration, have launched a nationwide celebration of Trinidad & Tobago's 50th Independence anniversary, which is planned to c

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