Cancel all Carnivals & Panoramas? -- The real deal on the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

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Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band Travels Across Generations And Genres

Heard on All Things Considered

OLIVER WANG

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2017 Trinidad & Tobago Panorama Review - the Good, Bad and Ugly

WST Review

The 2017 Trinidad and Tobago Panorama season—and by extension the Carnival season—was a tumultuous one that was overflowing with enough drama, intrigue, passion and controversy to field a season of Scandal, Empire or Game of Thrones. But i

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Revisiting --- The Good, Bad and Ugly - Smooth Sailing at 2015 Panorama Musical Game of Thrones - A WST Review

Trinidad & Tobago National Steelband Panorama 2015

In the age of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram the self-made Pan experts and gurus are popping up everywhere all over the world -- type 140 characters, hit enter and scream ‘Look at me...’ Luckily in

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Coming Home - Andy Narell Delivers Awesome, Edgy CD

Global - Andy Narell’s new album, Oui ma Chérie!, is just the thing to gift the soul of music. Bright and splashy, it delivers a mosaic of ideas and sounds the Italians may well categorize as coloratura.

From the very first cut, Forward Home, arran

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WST - New York 2012 Steel Orchestra Panorama in REVIEW - Performances

New York continues to be one of the leading bastions of the large steel orchestra format in Panorama in the world - second only to Trinidad and Tobago. The Panorama pulse is alive as ten orchestras participated in the 2012 competition. The following

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Revisiting - New Book Illustrates Image of Pan with Telling Stories of The Steel Band

Global- The first few images in “The Illustrated Story of Pan” (288 pages) that jumped up and grabbed my eyeballs seemed eerily familiar. It wasn’t the six or seven young men scratching out the early rhythm of the steel band on paint pans, biscuit dr

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Revisiting -- Showtime at the Savannah! - The Good, Bad and Ugly - A WST 2011 Panorama Review

Showtime at the Savannah!

“...With heart, faith and Steel. In the end there can be only one” - 2011 Panorama

One, two, three... nine, ten. It’s over! Good night, folks...

Like a scene out of the movie Rocky, or that classic still pictu

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Panorama 2011 - A Review by Dalton Narine

Panorama 2011 - A Review by Dalton Narine

Trinidad & Tobago - The city had been sitting prettier than in recent years - smoldering, really.

Another fine Children’s Carnival; the grand Soca Monarch finals; a strident tone infiltrating through the half

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Robert Greenidge + Steelpan + Xmas = “A Coral Reefer Christmas” - A WST CD Review

Global -The steelpan instrument, Christmas and Robert Greenidge = “A Coral Reefer Christmas.”  What more could one ask for in terms of a special music item for the season? And if that’s not enough, Robert brings a star musical cast to the table on th

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Panorama Rewind

 

Going back in time here to 2003, and moving up through the years.  Following are links to the results of, and pictures from Trinidad & Tobago Panorama from 2003 through 2010 as compiled by When Steel Talks/PanOnTheNet. Additionally, you may click

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An Analysis and Review of Trinidad and Tobago’s 2009 National Steelband Panorama

An Analysis and Review of Trinidad and Tobago’s2009 National Steelband Panorama by Dr. Jeannine Remy Trinidad, W.I. - The format of a panorama tune has evolved because of the early innovations of arrangers who actually gave the judges ideas for the

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