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Government Distributes Grants to Unsponsored Steelbands ,and Cultural Organisations, and Remittances to Pan Players Participating in Panorama 2023 to Pan Trinbago
The corollary is the AMERICAN COMMERCIAL MUSIC MARKET ... they take snippets of CALYPSO MUSIC and wrap their genres around it and make HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS over the years.
I have spent over 50 years listening to how CALYPSO is hybridized into AMERICAN COMMERCIALS.
And we have all the PAN and MUSICAL GENIUSES down in TRINIDAD not making a dime in that industry. But we know how to integrate CLASSICAL MUSIC into our CALYP
Read more…Ah eh doing allyuh home work for allyuh but do ah GOOGLE SEARCH on this:THE ARRANGING TECHNIQUES OF LEON “SMOOTH” EDWARDS AND THEIR APPLICATION TO CALYPSO-STYLED CLASSICAL MUSIC ...
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THE ARRANGING TECHNIQUES OF LEON “SMOOTH” EDWARDS
AND THEIR APPLICATION TO CALYPSO-STYLED CLASSICAL MUSIC
Ah putting up THE ORIGINAL CALYPSO of the WINNING PANORAMA SONG (2023) on here RIGHT NOW ...
Now I have said 100 times on THIS FORUM that I am a REAL TRINIDADIAN -- I eh come on NO BOAT.
So if you are playing this CALYPSO on a CARNIVAL MOTHER OF ALL CARNIVALS SATURDAY NIGHT in TRINIDAD on a CARNIVAL SATURDAY NIGHT -- I WANT TO HEAR THE CALYP
Read more…A young ‘Okie’ just posted a video ‘bigging up’ our Pan culture. it’s sweet, Go have a look at it
What ‘Okie’ did
A young Oklahoman lad, with roots here in Trinidad, TT, came for a holiday and enjoyed with his family, the beaches and some other things; things that you do while on holiday here in TT.
But he also visited the panyards of Valley H
Read more…With DUVONE STEWART drawing position #11 -- THE PANORAMA DONE. I don't even have to listen to THE BROADCAST ...
My only hope is that DUVONE STEWART doh PANIC and fall backwards into making dem classical music judges happy by adding passages to please them. I am just hoping that he JUST JAM JAM JAM HOW THE BLACK MAN COME OUT TO PARTY.
STRAIGHT CALYPSO -- NO COM
Read more…Finals: Order of Appearance for LARGE Steel Orchestras - Panorama 2023 - Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The thirteen finalists in the large steel orchestras now know how they appear before judges on final night on Saturday February 18 (Carnival Saturday) at the Queen’s Park Savannah in Port-of-Spain.
Read more…THA Pan Champs - 2023 Results
Kirsten Michener lives her dream in Phase II panyard
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Kirsten Michener playing with Len “Boogsie” Sharpe as she is instructed by D’Arcy King at the Hadco Phase II Pan Groove pan yard on Hamilton St, Port of Spain in August 2021.
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - When Kirsten Michen
Read more…Hundreds stranded in Tobago after Panorama final
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Hundreds of passengers were left stranded in Tobago yesterday, having been bumped off the early sailing of the APT James fas
Read more…If the whole nation was a panyard, Trinidad would be the best place in the entire world - Rev. Archbishop Charles Jason Gordon
The panyard is one place in T&T that transcends race, class, and gender. Jit Samaroo was the arranger for Renegades for many years. They would have protected him with their lives.
For many, the panyard is their home that gives a sense of identity an
Read more…Katzenjammers Steel Orchestra Takes Title with Arranger Kersh Ramsey as Medium Band Champions
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The Katzenjammers Steel Orchestra with winning arranger Kersh Ramsey led from the preliminaries, then made it clear coming out of the semi-finals, and finally cemented the title with a resounding performance on stage in th
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