Trinidad Express Newspapers
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - ....The resilience and growth of the steelband movement is amazing. August was Pan Month. I began with the annual birdsong summer camp graduation musical concert.
I have previously described th
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Laventille, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The late veteran calypsonian Garfield Blackman (Ras Shorty I) is renowned for the classic “Watch Out My Children”—a lament against the evils of substance abuse.
Last Friday evening, a
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Natural birdsong has therapeutic qualities; we may hear peripherally but still absorb some of those sweet improvisations and calls. Similarly, to judge by responses in the packed-out auditorium of Queen
Barbados Advocate
Barbados, W.I. - Students participating in the ‘Pan in the Plaza’ steel pan camp are gearing up for the Youth Pan Extravaganza.
Now into its 11th year, the camp is hosted by the Central Bank of Barbados and the National Cultural
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Tobago, W.I. - The RBC Redemption Sound Setters Steel Orchestra recently launched its annual July-August holidays, “Redemption Academy Pan Camp” for children ages five and up.
The camp will run for four to five weeks after
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