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Canton Symphony Orchestra's CONVERZATIONS Features Steel Drums
BroadwayWorld.com by Classical Music Desk
The Canton Symphony Orchestra's ConverZations series picks up in the New Year with a lively presentation on steel drums. Jeff Neitzke, Professor of Percussion at University of Mount Union will lead the discus
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Happy Birthday to Panist Extraordinaire - Len "Boogsie" Sharpe
When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to the great Len "Boogsie" Sharpe.
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Stalin writing lyrics for 'Boogsie' for Panorama
Trinidad Express
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Five-time Calypso Monarch Leroy Calliste (Black Stalin) is currently putting lyrics to Len "Boogsie" Sharpe's melody for his 2013 song for five-time Panorama winners Petrotrin Phase II Pan Groove.
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An Open Letter To Chief Bowie Sonnie Bowei, ATTSDC
Dear Chief Bowie,
We, the WST membership, would like to know, why you have chosen to remain silent, on the issues raised on this forum, regarding your newly formed company, the Africa Trinidad & Tobago Steelpan Development Company. As die-hard lover
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Are Pan Trinbago And Its Leaders Breaking The Law? Hmm...
REPOST: Hotep. I've been doing a little research over the last few days, and based on the law, the facts, and evidence, Pan Trinbago and any "for profit" business or company they form, may not be legal, and in violation of applicable statutes, as th
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Questions For Chief Bowie Sonnie Bowei, CEO, ATTSDC
Firstly, Chief Bowei, I sincerely thank you, on behalf of the WST membership, for the opportunity to have my questions answered. Again, they come through me, and are not of me, nor for my personal gain. I seek only honest answers to the following, wi
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Boogsie overwhelmed at panist’s funeral
By VERDEL BISHOP Wednesday, June 20 2012 - Trinidad Newsday
After playing a musical tribute on the steelpan, during veteran pannist Franklyn Ollivierra’s funeral service at the Trinity Cathedral, on Monday, Len Boogsie Sharp, broke down and had to
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"DRIVE" SOUNDTRACK COMPOSER, CLIFF MARTINEZ AND HIS USE OF THE BASS PAN
Did anyone see this interview? Notice the bass pans in the background? This percussionist/composer appreciates the unique tone that can only come from a bass pan. Oh how I long for the day when we (as a country) learn to truly value our national inst
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“In The Rainforest” – An Unforgettable Steelband Experience - by Mark Loquan
Global - ....I returned to Trinidad in October 2000, specifically to play tenor with Skiffle Bunch, but I had only a week to learn the two pieces “In the Rainforest” and “Pan By Storm” before the finals. What a monumental effort. I remember learning
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Phase II Pan Groove must vacate panyard before December 31
Five-time Panorama champion, Phase II Pan Groove, must vacate its Hamilton Street home before year's end in order to make way for the completion of the One Woodbrook Place Project.
Port of Spain Mayor, Louis Lee Sing, advised the band's manager, Err
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Boogsie Sharpe's New Tune - Do Something for Pan
Hello family
What do you think about Boogsie's panorama tune for Phase II? You can hear it on panonthenet http://www.panonthenet.com/tnt/2011/tunes/do_something.htm
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Pan Rebels - In My House - Len "Boogsie" Sharpe - Another Basement Productions
This is a never-before-released or heard, 'slow version' of the great Len "Boogsie" Sharpe classic arrangement of "In My House" as performed by Pan Rebels and captured by Basement Recordings, as the orchestra prepared for the annual New York panorama
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