GARY CARDINEZ Friday, June 17 2016
IT IS very obvious that the national musical instrument “steelpan” is under- utilised in the land of its birth. Apart from the pan camps and National Panorama competitions which determine the best playing steel orchestras in the land, there is nothing.
Sorry, I missed the fact that Pan Trinbago takes the steelpan to some people with their Pan in the Country series but this pales in comparison with the latest initiative I discovered last month.
I can call names that you cannot pronounce, names like Roten Pick, Yahli Segev, Saleh Shanawi, Yuval Azrad, Dror Cohen Sefer and Ziv Meir and tell you they are associated with pan and you might think I am going off. But the truth of the matter is they all belong to a steelband called Peace Drums SteelBand.
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The POWER of the PAN, it does remarkable things to people.