Strangled: Asami Nagakiya
THE body of Japanese murder victim Asami Nagakiya was flown back home on Saturday and is expected to arrive sometime today, according to an official at the Japanese Embassy yesterday.
The cost to have her flown back was s
Read more…... and they say "OK" we going and listen to CECIL and the WST NOSTALGICS and play a MAS in town. How do they finance bringing 80 players and 100+ PANS and 50 PAN PUSHERS to the heart of town to recreate 1965?
And how do you compare NUTONES to ALL ST
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Glass City Steel from the Toledo School for the Arts will perform Saturday at Bowsher High School. Bowling Green State University and Miami University bands will also perform.In ho
When Steel Talks extends our sincere condolences to the family and friends of Asami Nagakiya.
by Ron Tiah
Ron Tiah to Asami Nagakiya
For Asami :
She was a special young lady, a dedicated pannist who played not only for our Panorama, but yea
Will there ever be a return of Caribbean youth panoramics, Dem stars, Marsicans, Panphonics, Harlem Allstars to panorama or a stage side.
Read more…By Susan Mohammed
FOREIGN delegates and heads of missions of international organisations yesterday held a memorial for slain Japanese pannist Asami Nagakiya in Port of Spain.
The representatives laid a wreath on the spot in the Queen’s Park Savannah,
Here is a man from TRINDAD who is DOING IT and not just TALKING ABOUT DOING IT. All praises to TRINIDAD JAMES
http://hiphopdx.com/news/id.37514/title.trinidad-james-just-won-a-grammy-he-wants-more
Read more…Jessie Moniz Hardy -- The Royal Gazette - Bermuda
Working on a cruise ship isn’t for everyone. The travel is constant and the work can be intense.
Steel pan player Robert Symons got hooked in 1989 and hasn’t looked back. His latest gig was on Oceani
Read more…By FRANCIS CARR Jr.
WILTON -- While growing up on the island of Trinidad, Norwalker Donna Rogers-Jones and her brother Robert were discouraged from playing the percussion instrument known to Trinidadians as a steelpan.
The instrument, fashioned from
Read more…Trinidad Newsday
A JAPANESE cruise ship, ‘Asuka II’, arrived yesterday on its inaugural visit to Trinidad and Tobago — nine days after Japanese national Asami Nagakiya was found strangled on Ash Wednesday under a large tree at the Queen’s Park Savann
Read more…by Maria Murriel -- Public Radio International
Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago is celebrated with colorful, feathered, sequined costumes. Last week the capital city's mayor said it was these costumes, an international symbol of the festival, that we
Read more…Paradise Pulse Online Magazine
There is this old Japanese folktale that tells the story of two frogs who lived at the opposite ends of Japan and who wanted to see what was beyond their home towns.
I would like to try doing some music for pan and would like to arrange it from my laptop, any one have any good programs I can use that will give me the full lines of instrument in a band?
Read more…http://www.cnc3.co.tt/press-release/how-trinidad-and-tobago-won-three-grammys-last-night
https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/2016-02-16/use-gram
Read more…On another front -- a DJ inspired this question.
With Desperadoes winning Panorama 2016 with a popular tune - Different Me - does this signal the return of orchestras picking popular music as their tunes of choice?
Read more…JULY/AUGUST is just the right time to have a SECOND MAJOR PAN EVENT every year. The problem is that the production (competition?) should be handled by forces outside of the KEITH DIAZ and PAN TRINBAGO sphere. And it should be financially INDEPENDENT
Read more…Pan Trinbago Inc. T.C, would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Bro. Keron Valentine, on his elevation to the position of Mayor of the capital city of Port of Spain.
Our pride in his achievement stems from the fact that His Worship the May
Read more…AN ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITIONAL STYLES OF RAY HOLMAN, LIAM TEAGUE, AND ANDY NARELL.
http://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5868&context=etd
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PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten - Island Gems Charity Foundation continued its commitment to children a
– The Saint Lucia Hotel and Tourism Association (SLHTA), on Tuesday February 16th, made a monetary contribution to the Cultural Development Foundation (CDF), in support of the organization’s capacity building efforts.
The handing over took place at
