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2025 SOUTH/CENTRAL Small Conventional Steel Orchestra Preliminaries - Panyard Judging

 Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - More steel orchestras in the small conventional category will grace the ‘stage’—that being their respective panyards—in the presence of judges, as they vie for a spot in the January 18 semi-finals coming off at Victoria Sq

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Order of Appearance - Single Pan Bands - PRELIMINARIES - South/Central Region

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Jah Roots will be the first south-based band to be judged as the National Panorama Single Pan Band Preliminaries continues.

Playing the band’s arrangement of Aldwyn Roberts’ “Sixty-Seven,” Jah Roots which hails from Ernest G

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Judging flawed

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Chairman of Pan Trinbago South Central Region Michael Joseph says he intends to have discussions with colleagues over the judging system of the National Steelband Panorama competitions as he decl

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Panorama 2014 Single Pan Preliminaries On Track

Global - Seventy Single Pan Bands in four Regions will face panels of adjudicators when the 2014 National Panorama Single Pan Bands Preliminaries gets underway in two weeks’ time.  This means that sixty-nine bands will be attempting to dethrone the r

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Happy Birthday Nelson Mandela - Symbol Of African Resistance!

Today, I just wanted to be aware of the day Nelson Mandela arrived. Happy Earth Arrival Day, Nelson Mandela! President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, the first ever to be elected in a fully representative democratic election!!! http://www.nobelp

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International Marimba and Steelpan Festival 2012 - South Africa

South Africa will be blown away by the marimbas and steelpans at the Education Africa International Marimba and Steelpan Festival.

It will be held at Bishop Bavin School in Bedfordview, Gauteng on 4 and 5 August 2012.

Be prepared for over 1 000 marimba

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Godfrey Camps – from Steelband Captain to Bartender

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - ....Godfrey Camps was at the tender age of thirteen when he had his first brush with the national instrument of his native Trinidad & Tobago. At that time Melody Makers was situated at the corner of Coffee and Drayton street

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Steelband Music Ambassadors down South take Pan By Storm

San Fernando, Trinidad, W.I. - St. Margaret’s Boys’ Youth Pan Extravaganza was previously a single local event held in Port-of-Spain at Trinidad All Stars Pan Theatre. Due to its resounding success during the initial three years, it was decided to sh

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Open Steelband letter to the Mayor of San Fernando, Trinidad

Trinidad and Tobago, W.I. - With a focus on southern Trinidad where he and his band, Southern Marines Steelband Foundation, are based, columnist Michael Joseph expresses his dismay about the treatment of the steelband community with respect to the fi

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Revisited - Soweto Steelpan Woman Rising - An Interview with Kefilwe ‘Sweets’ Morutimang

An Interview with Kefilwe ‘Sweets’ Morutimang
Soweto Steelpan Woman Rising

South Africa - Meet Kefilwe ‘Sweets’ Morutimang, musician, steelpan player and scholar from Soweto, South Africa. Kefilwe ‘Sweets’ Morutimang is a charismatic, bright and mul

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