The Role Women Arrangers will play in Panorama during in the next decade.

Thanks WST/Pan Times for your continued dedication and service you provide your membership.
Your Tribute To Women In Pan “Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form had me thinking.

On Panorama Finals night we saw Pan Trinbago leadership offer

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Nurturing the future of pan

Trinidad Express Newspapers

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Music was the language of celebration for the 84 Pan-in-Schools workshop participants who showed off their talents in a spectacular graduation ceremony held at the Queen’s Hall Auditorium recently

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What a shame!

http://www.bcraw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1335%3Apan-in-a-senior&catid=22&Itemid=22

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What a shame!

http://www.bcraw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1335%3Apan-in-a-senior&catid=22&Itemid=22

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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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WIADCA Speaks - The True Situation On Panorama: Setting the Record Straight

By Thomas Bailey, President, West Indian American Day Carnival Association (WIADCA) - NY Carib News

In recent months there has been a lot of criticism heaped upon the West Indian American Day Carnival Association (WIADCA). Some of that criticism has

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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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Steel Pan Blueprint For Success (Rough Draft Edit) by George D. Goddard (c. 2011)

To All Panists:

Re: Steel Pan Blueprint For Success (Rough Draft Edit)

Hi to all,

Recently, a pan colleague asked me what were my ideas on what needs to be done to “revive the pan movement...” (as he put it). In relation to that question, I though

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Steelpan still in danger

Steelpan still in danger

2011-03-23

Pan in danger, sang Merchant in 1985. Today, 26 Panoramas later, it seems danger still exists.

Apparently panmen in Trinidad are fuming over being drowned out by the big music trucks in the recently concluded Carni

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Happy Birthday, George "Sonny" Goddard! "The Malcolm X of the Steelband Movement"!

In honor of George "Sonny" Goddard, who would have turned 87 today. Happy Birthday!!! We share with you an article, in which Brother Valentino accounts for George's power and courage, against both the "Father Of The Nation", and the "Grandmaster"! (I

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Wyclef Jean shot in hand in Haiti

Wyclef has visited New York pan yards in the past. He did a music video with Pantonic Steel Orchestra in 2005 for then upcoming album.

 

(CNN) -- Hip-hop singer Wyclef Jean was recovering Sunday after he was shot in the hand, his publicist said.

Spo

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Dedicate Panorama 2011 for those lives Lost

To Whensteeltalks, the Steelpan Community, and PanTrinbago,

 

The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago has definitely hit a low point when innocent pan men are afraid to go to their rehearsals with the fear of being shot and killed by those people in the

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Sesame Flyers Steel Orchestra Pan Yard Vandalized!

New York, USA - The Brooklyn, New York Pan Yard of Sesame Flyers Steel Orchestra was broken into during the very early morning hours of Thursday August 19, 2010 and vandalized. The perpetrators left the yard in disarray and completely destroyed the e

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Utopia Pan Soul: next generation presents

Utopia Pan Soul : next generation presents a "youth groove" featuring entirely the up and coming younger pan musicians and their friends in pan. They have planned a culturally rich program including various steel band artists, spoken word etc. If the

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