When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family and friends of Curt Jardine, Pan Rebels, and D'Radoes Steel Orchestra family. He will be missed.
Read more…Of the 8000 PAN PLAYERS in TRINIDAD, I don' think any one of them could live up to the rigors and requirements of representing THE PAN GLOBALLY. And though the QUALIFICATIONS are not STATED, they are IMPLIED on a number of LEVELS.
An EXPAT from NEW Y
Read more…... dem YANKEES have more BASEBALL and BASKETBALL more than TRINIDAD ... so BEVERLEY, why neglect THE PAN MEN yuh making me FEEL SAD -- ah say: CALYPSO and STEELBAND and the PAN MEN is the CULTURE OF TRINIDAD!!!
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I spent my whole life (knowingly and unknowingly) waiting to hear that PERFECTLY RECORDED PAN NOTE. And as the PANS got BETTER and BETTER the notes came closer and closer to my dream -- more so L-I-V-E than R-E-C-O-R-D-E-D. But then the DIGITAL ERA c
Read more…You don't have to restrict your choice to TRINIDAD -- THE PLAYER could be from NEW YORK or LONDON or EUROPE or CANADA. But you have to remember that PLAYING THE PAN is only like 50% of the JOB REQUIREMENT. THE PLAYER has to bring a whole BUNDLE OF CH
Read more…Bishops High School Student Conference. These young people jamming. I so enjoyed spending time with them. Thanks to the students for your engagement and enthusiasm during our presentations and ending with a bang. They are awesome. Read more…
Trinidad Newsday -- Gary Cardinez
Melodians steelband performs at the launch of Panorama 2020 at the Queen's Park Savannah, Port of Spain on Sunday.
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Panorama 2020 was launched on Sunday evening at HADCO Phase II Pan Groov
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Pan Trinbago Inc. T.C. Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held on Sunday November 3, 2019 at the N.C.C. V.I.P., Lounge, Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain. Starting time is 10:00 a.m.
Registration commences two hours earlier at 8:00 a.m.
Report
Read more…Ah really thought that by now TRINIDAD would have produced a GLOBAL PAN STAR gracing stages around the world and producing best-selling CDs and getting music reviews here and there and appearing on talks shows in AMERICA and in a film in HOLLYWOOD an
Read more…Trinidad Guardian
October 21, 2019
"Citing the late Merchant’s calypso Caribbean Connection, Ramsey-Moore reminded the large turnout that Merchant’s Caribbean Connection was held in Tobago and that the final of the National Panorama
Read more…Let's pray for Dr. Roy Cape's full and speedy recovery after he sustained a non life threatening injury from a fall earlier in the week. The Doctor is in high spirits and is resting comfortably at the moment.
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EARLY DAYS
Steel pan was little known outside Trinidad, the island-nation of its invention, in the early 60’s when Rupert Sterling, an exchange student from the Caribbean island of Antigua, arrived in NYC to study engineering. Rupert soon found hims
Read more…"Steel pan has come a long way in Guyana. It has been in the country since in the 1950’s. Because of challenges such as cost and maintenance, the steel pan music was on a break for a while. However, in 2008, things were
Read more…KEITH ANDERSON
TRINIDAD GUARDIAN
October 19, 2019
"There are two major changes agreed to by the membership.
1: Bands will be judged on the song they select. They cannot change verses in (songs) mid-stream; which means that there will be no chan
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