Panorama Is The Bride Of Carnival. Why Try (To) Separate Them?

Panorama and Carnival are locked in matrimony. Panorama was meant to be a competition, where steelbands would perform music (calypso and, eventually soca) related to the (Carnival) season. The "Bomb" competition, which my dad not only supported, but

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Carnival TV streams Tobago Jazz Festival 2013 to the World

Global - Carnival TV has quickly established itself as one of the leading organizations for streaming music entertainment content out of the Caribbean. For those who are unfamiliar with Carnival TV, they are the media broadcast company that has been

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Revisted - Presenting Carnival to the World - An interview with Paul Charles, Director of Carnival TV - A When Steel Talks Exclusive

Carnival TV - Meeting the Challenge of presenting Caribbean Entertainment and Events to the World

After years of unprofessionalism, bad products and lame excuses -  Carnival TV stepped in and showed it could be done. In an exclusive interview the dir

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Woeful Monday night pan in South

Trinidad Guardian

After the fourth steelband passed the judges during the Carnival Monday Night Steelband Competition in San Fernando, one woman said, “I am still waiting to hear a real band play.” Another said: “Is this all the bands in San Fernando

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A Real home for Panorama and Carnival

Ace photographer and journalist Mark Lyndersay says -  This is how you build the Grandstand to view a Carnival. What say you?

Brazil’s Epic Carnival: Scenes from Rio’s Sambadrome

Ricardo Moraes / REUTERS

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Police and the Pan pushers

Tillah Willah

....I’ve been here before.The last time I remember the police being so hognorant at Panorama was when Papa Patos was at the height of his unpopularity. The Guard and Emergency Branch were on a rampage. One scraped my arm and tried to g

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2013 Carnival the worst

Trinidad Guardian

Trinidad & Tobago: Attendance was high on Saturday morning when the National Carnival Commission (NCC) hosted its Carnival Stakeholders Consultation—“Crystallising the Role of the NCC”—at the UTT Auditorium, National Academy for the

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New cultural economic order - for T&T carnival - by Sunity Maharaj

posted by odw on Sunday

by Sunity Maharaj

Re-published with the expressed permission of the author

A big lagniappe of Carnival 2013 was the duel over rights in which value creators squared off against value appropriators.

It's been a long time in co

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Carnival's Axis of copyright by Mark Lyndersay

I’ve been advised, by a source with no reason to lie about such things, that some quite draconian fees have been instituted for the coverage of Carnival in 2013.

These fees break out as follows in T&T cash money as the unsuited thugs say…
NCC Fees: Per

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T&T Carnival not on world wide web: 'halt' to Parade of Bands

Trinidad Express

The Carnival parade is not being streamed on the world wide web by any local media, not even by State-owned CNMG

The National Carnival Bands Association (NCBA) yesterday moved to block the station from streaming the Parade of the Ban

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Mayor Lee Sing not happy with new Downtown Dimanche Gras

If Port Of Spain Mayor Louis Lee Sing has his way there will be competition to the Dimanche Gras show being put on the by national carnival commission on carnival Sunday night. As Melissa Williams tells us, he is upset with the decision to remove t

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Diaz: Panorama to go international next year

Trinidad & Tobago Guardian

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago president Keith Diaz says this year’s Panorama competition will be an exciting year for steelband and will lead to the introduction of Panorama as an international pan competition in 2

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What really matters... We've lost more than 18,000 of 20,000 genius elders in the last 10 years

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Carnival shake-up - "Groovy Soca Monday Night" steelband competition coming

Trinidad Express

THE Calypso Monarch competition will be held on Carnival Thursday and not the traditional Dimanche Gras Sunday night.

This was disclosed yesterday by recently appointed chairman of the National Carnival Commission (NCC) Allison Demas

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Carnival 1975 - Trinidad and Tobago - By Nick DeWolf Photo Archive

port of spain, trinidad
february 1975

trinidad carnival

carib tokyo, steel drum orchestra
parade of bands, panorama 1975
queen's park savannah

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2012 D.C. Caribbean Carnival in doubt

By Jimm Phillips and Stefanie Dazio, Published: April 10The Washington Post

The annual D.C. Caribbean Carnival is in serious financial trouble and may not occur this year, organizers say.

City officials say they will not sign off on the Caribbean Car

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"Out of pain this culture was born" by Gerry Kangalee (As published on Trinbagopan.com, 8/21/08)

I thought some of you might appreciate this really well-written article, that breaks down the history of the steel drum/pan, in clear, concise narration. I hope you all enjoy this reading, if you haven't read it before. Again, I am not going to keep

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Every waking hour - Pan Trinbago has already lost almost half of the North Stand

Every waking hour

By Marlon Miller

Trinidad Express

...Maybe that is one of the reasons why they no longer command capacity audiences, with the North Stand just over half-full last Saturday night, when the first big band didn't come on stage until a

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Nigeria and Trinidad cooperate to improve cultural carnivals

Written by TAIWO OLADOKUN

Nigerian Tribune

TAIWO OLADOKUN writes on the synergy between Nigeria and Trinidad aimed at earning millions from carnivals.

The synergy started with the participation of Trinidad and Tobago in the 2011 Abuja Carnival and

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Arnold wants second carnival - for Tobago

Tobago, W.I.- Chairman of the National Carnival Commission Patrick Arnold has crossed swords with the THA's position of no second carnival for Tobago.

Arnold who served for 12 years as President of Pan Trinbago was recently appointed as head of the na

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