Global - Someday, Phase II drill person Natasha Joseph will arrange for a large band in the Panorama, “but I’m biding my time.” For now, arranger Len “Boogsie” Sharpe relies on her ability to conduct rehearsal sessions, so indispens
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Corbeaux Town, Port-of-Spain, is named after the corbeaux who scavenged the garbage from the La Basse and fish market, about where the fire brigade station is now, in the 19th and early to mid-20
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Trinidad and Tobago - Worldwide pan history was created within our 2013 Golden Jubilee, national panorama season at the schools’ panorama competition held at the “Big Yard’, Port of Spain, on February 3rd, when the St Margaret’s Bo
Read more…Georgetown GINA, February 17, 2013
Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, performing the duties of the President and Minister of Culture Youth and Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony were among music lovers enjoying the delightful sounds of the Republic Bank Mashramani P
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Global - The steelpan music of Trinidad and Tobago has certainly come a long way in the past 50 years from 21 participating bands in 1963 preliminaries to 156 bands (totals for single, small, medium, and large) participating in
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A big lagniappe of Carnival 2013 was the duel over rights in which value creators squared off against value appropriators.
It's been a long time in co
Global - Meet the champion arranger for Success Stars Pan Sounds in the Non-School category of Trinidad & Tobago’s Junior National Panorama, Mickiel Gabriel. The orchestra is from Laventille. This ‘successful’ collaboration has resulted in three cons
by Sandra L. Blood
Read more…"Coming from 2nd-to-last in the semi-final rounds of the Golden Jubilee national Panorama competition in Trinidad, to 3rd in finals...entering the competition emotionally and psychologically embattled (hoping to maintain its hat tr
I looks like PanTrinbago had a very successful season having staged Panorama, the Greens and Champs of Steel, congratulations are in order.
I am "just wondering" if they would be hiring additional staff to help them count all that money they collecte
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After the fourth steelband passed the judges during the Carnival Monday Night Steelband Competition in San Fernando, one woman said, “I am still waiting to hear a real band play.” Another said: “Is this all the bands in San Fernando
Read more…It is with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of Everald Flores this past Monday. In New York Everald played many years with Silhouetts Steel Orch. then later with Golden Harps.
Condolences to his family. May his soul forever be with the Lord
Read more…Tuscarawas Bargain Hunter
Ohio, USA - The Dover High School Steel Band, under the direction of Joan Wenzel, will create an evening of warm-weather paradise for their annual Pantasia concert. The unique event will be held on Feb. 17, and will be a cel
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What moves grown men to wear fur and poke at a papier mache polar bear in the tropics? Probably an imagination that demands a Grandstand's worth of space. Desperadoes plays Polar North. Photograph by Kingsley Lyndersay (res
Trinidad Express
The Carnival parade is not being streamed on the world wide web by any local media, not even by State-owned CNMG
The National Carnival Bands Association (NCBA) yesterday moved to block the station from streaming the Parade of the Ban
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By Mark Lyndersay
The sun is dimming on the horizon and there are disjointed tinkles of tenors and rumblings of bass drums in the Woodbrook panyard of Phase II.
It’s hours after practice was supposed to formally begin on my fir
Global - Scintillating music and band performances from the Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama Medium & Large Conventional Steel Orchestra competition have been captured “live” on DVD and CD.
Panorama Finals 2013 – The DVD is produced by Pan Trinba
Read more…As a pan fan I was embarrass and ashamed last night to see we are on the world stage and these jokers with their steelpan app made so much mistake trying to play our national anthem on their steelpan app to open the 50th anniversary of panorama WHAT
Read more…A couple of days ago I got my first steel drum, and as of 2:00 today, i could play about 27 songs on it. until now. a few minuets ago i hit my e, and it instantly went REALLY flat, and every time i hit it, it went flater. as you can tell, i am a tota
Read more…By Kevin Baldeosingh
February 7, 2013
Is Carnival a popular event? The answer might seem an obvious Yes, given the massive crowds which go to the fetes and the manner in which the festival occupies centre stage in the country for several weeks. But
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