D Midas
Dawad Philip
When an elder dies, a great library is lost, so the African proverb says. So too, when a mas man passes on, a storyteller, raconteur and magician disappears, a piece of the Carnival -- theatre, art and transcendence -- is taken
Cecil Hinkson: I don't know who is pushing YOUR AGENDA to get PAN BACK ON THE ROAD FOR CARNIVAL. But it certainly seems that the PP formed a new company in 2014 to promote the music of TRINIDAD and TOBAGO internationally. Which is all I have ever tal
Read more…“ TRYING TO COVER YOUR TRACKS hum???”
Professor Brian R.Copeland, Dean of UWI is trying to cover his tracks, when he decided to award, Anthony Williams of St James North stars Steel orchestra (SNSE), aka Pan Am North stars, with an honorary PHD, af
Read more…INDIGISOUNDS has successfully delivered the rhythms and sounds of the Caribbean with the advanced technology made for the modern pan player, studio musician, composer, arranger and producer.
The ten thousand musicians in Trinidad and thousands more
Read more…Tichona Shervington - Education Officer, Cary Codrington - President Locals, Caspar Durant - Trustee, Malcolm Kernahan - PRO and Jyotir Gittens - Clerk, as they all work out the details for XL4Pan.
Condolences to the family of Stephen Derek who took MAS to the outside world.
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William R. Aho, Ph.D.
Introduction
The focus of this paper is the class, color, and race components in the struggle to create a people’s music — a music originally and essentially of the economically disadvantaged and less formally educated citize
ishing all WST Xpats, Members, Posters, well wishers, readers and all their families who are in the PATH of Hurricane MATTHEWS are SAFE and sound. More PAN and MAS on the road for Carnival 2017. hope and change is on the horizon. BLESSINGS.
Read more…Over the weekend I saw a tenor/soprano pan without the skirt and it sounded excellent, I was also told that the same technology could be applied to all pans, my question is why the powers that be in the Mecca don't get behind the inventor and market
Read more…Steel pan, born on the island of Trinidad in the late 1930s, began as an outlaw instrument, hammered from milk tins, biscuit
Read more…Dr. Kim Johnson outlined why PAN TRINBAGO was formed and what purpose it continues to serve. And that continues to be that!!! So from today on wards you all should give up that ghost because unless you are calling the PAN TRINBAGO office to offer th
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Global - In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks, Desperadoes Steel Orchestra elder statesman, Matthew Cox, speaks on this legendary and world-renowned music organization from Laventille, Trinidad and Tobago.
In addition, Cox gives insight
Read more…Anyone have lyrics to Kitch's Old Time Calypso?
Read more…Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Cordettes Steel Orchestra may be an unsponsored outfit, but it remains an institution in the eastern district of Sangre Grande.
Established around 1962, the band has held its own as an ensemble,
Read more…The Huffington Post
Nigeria, Africa - Re-Percussions: Our African Odyssey, award-winning Trinidadian film-maker Kim Johnson’s contribution to this year’s Caribbean Tales International Film Festival in Toronto, is a documentary masterpiece focused on
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