LAURA DOWRICH-PHILLIPS -- Loop-TT
Legendary pan arranger Len Boogsie Sharpe is apologising to Nailah Blackman and her camp for dropping her song, ‘Sokah’, as the tune of choice for Phase II Pan Groove.
Sharpe told Loop that while he was clos
Keeping the POLITICAL TENSION alive, Nermal “Massive” Gosein has made it into the finals of the NLCB Play Whe Chutney Soca Monarch competition.
The RAJ STORY (Kenneth Supersad) also made it into the finals.
These two songs turned out to be the best o
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GARY CARDINEZ
Two-time Soca Monarch Aaron “Voice” St Louis has thrown his hat into the Calypso Monarch and Road March arena.
St Louis last week registered with the Trinibago Unified Calypsonian Organisation (TUCO) for both competiti
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It is victory for the second year running for Newtown Playboys Steel Symphony, which successfully defended its title in the Single Pan Band category of the 2018 Trinidad and Tobago National Panor
Read more…Ok , pan people another controversial thought...
Can someone explain to me the purpose of the single pan competition , if it is not a way of maintaining and celebrating the historic "pan round neck" tradition ?
Or are we going to relegate the pan rou
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
2018 Single Pan Bands Prelims Results
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So I am calling on THE MINISTER OF CULTURE to come up with the THREE MILLION DOLLARS and HAND IT OVER to THE RIGHT HONOURABLE KEITH DIAZ so that we could make this a SUCCESSFUL CARNIVAL (and PANORAMA) 2018!!!
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The sounds of steel will resonate at the Basketball Court, Princess Royal Park, Arima, east Trinidad on Sunday January 14, as twenty Single Pan Bands vie for pan music supremacy in their category
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SINGLE PAN FINALISTS
SUNDAY JANUARY 14, 2018
BASKETBALL COURT, ARIMA
4.00 P.M.
Small and Single Pan people always saying we don't pay them any attention, here is an opportunity for y'all the pick a band.
Read more…...no compromise from veteran calypsonian
For this Carnival season, Anthony Phillip, better known in the Calypso arena as Brother Valentino, is lighting up Kaiso House (at what used to be the Globe Cinema on St Vincent Street) with his vintage classi
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Global - In the inner circles of Soca music creation and production, the name Jovan James is well known, as he has singularly written, or co-written, hits for some of the biggest Soca stars in Caribbean. The list reads like a who’s who of heavy hi
Read more…By Raffique Shah
January 11, 2018
...Except for the steelband component which is rising in spite of Carnival, every other aspect what was once the people’s festival has been hijacked by the vultures, the mafia, call them what you will. A slick cabal
YVONNE WEBB
Newsday January 12, 2018
Weeks before National Panorama finals, Caribbean Airlines has pulled its sponsorship from the Invaders Steel Orchestra because of economic constraints the airline is facing.
http://newsday.co.tt/2018/01/12/cal-pul
Read more…Things eh going good AT ALL. But ah read ah article in the GUARDIAN yesterday which does not speak to the CARNIVAL specifically and does not use the term "EXPATS" specifically ... but if you read the article and inject the MUSIC INDUSTRY (PAN AND SOC
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Because this is Trinidad and Tobago...
"Here every creed and race
find an equal place,
And may God bless our nation.”
So we, all of us, side by side, have a mas of attainment to play, a work of art to entertain and to commu
Great News! Sangre Grande Cordettes will be visited by the Soca Royal family of Fay Ann Lyons, Bunji Garlin and their entourage to give support and listen to our Panorama 2018 tune of choice, Fay Ann's 2009 Road March "Meet Superblue" arranged by Ken
Why am I seeing comments to a certain discussion is closed? Lets not go down this road.
Read more…I've got to get this off my chest , it has been bugging me for too long , and allyuh won't like it.
Somehow or other , pan people seem to have developed what can only be called a socialist mentality.
It is no accident that most of the progress in pan
