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How a fire in the Inland Empire could spell doom for the worldwide vinyl LP boom
Los Angeles Times February 14, 2020

"How did one Southern California company end up monopolizing the global market for blank lacquer discs? What happens now that it’s out of commission? From an environmental perspective, can such a facility even exi
Read more…Well the STEELBAND PLAYING CALYPSO IN CALYPSO is an OLD DISCUSSION of mine. And a few months ago I put up this RENDITION as a "good example" to support my position -- so I am doing it again ...
... however. I have never been an ALL STARS fan and it kind of broke my heart to use them as an example (which is one more reason why I don't like the "give me on example").
Anyway, from a CALYPSO PERSPECTIVE -- and let me make it quite clear that I
Read more…Earl Richards: I have a hypothetical question for you on the TOBAGO PANORAMA. Suppose BEVERLEY and PAN TRINBAGO went crazy spending money and then they suddenly realize they are coming up short ...
... so their only recourse is to tell some of the TRINIDAD FINALIST BANDS that they need to cut down their bands to the MINIMUM NUMBER (I think that is 70 -- yuh know ah not into the PAN TING). So now the TRINI BANDS have NO CHOICE but to go along wi
Read more…Protecting pans, promoting TT
TT's coat of arms on a pan case cover. -
Jennifer Moore always assumed going into business was a simple thing.
“I thought it was just a matter of making something, selling it and putting the money in the bank.”
Now 25 years into the business of mak
Read more…Results - Large - Panorama Semis 2020
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Eleven large steel orchestras from the original fourteen semi-finalists withstood the musical test in the large category and are through to the Trinidad & Tobago’s National 2020 Panorama finals, to be held at the same venue
Read more…Pan Trinbago press conference on 2020 National Medium Bands Finals. Press conference at the Tobago Festival
Pan Trinbago press conference on 2020 National Medium Bands Finals. Press conference at the Tobago Festival
Commission office on Wilson Road, Scarborough on Thu, Feb, 13.
Read more…WELL, the problem is that ONLY ONE BAND COULD WIN. And then we GRUMBLE and move on to PANORAMA 2021
Ten days later if you turn on the radio here in the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA you will hear the LOCAL FOOTBALL FANS still blaming the REFEREES for missing some FLAGRANT FOULS.
Meanwhile the PARADE done PASS in KANSAS CITY!!!
So on SUNDAY NIGHT when the
Read more…AH HAVE AH CHALLENGE FOR PAN LOVERS: Listen to THIS CALYPSO very carefully!!! And then tell me what RELATIONSHIP it has to the PANORAMA ARRANGEMENTS OF THIS CALYPSO.
I feel VERY INSULTED!!! Because I AM A REAL TRINIDADIAN!!! And I have been listening to and LOVING CALYPSO since 1953 -- as a LITTLE BOY. So I feel that I know what a CALYPSO SOUNDS LIKE because I have put my TIME and LOVE into the ART FORM.
And when
Read more…de judges tief!! 2020 Panorama
Dem judges tief Supernovas and Pamberi.
Pamberi and Supernovas have to be in the top two in their categories. What madddddness is this? Dem judges suffering from multiple concussions or the Russians got to them with mind control.
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The Pain-o-rama explained: Episode One..Renegades, Desperados and Exodus.
by Sharmain Baboolal
#ChroniclesofÀPanorama
All are mighty. But the heaviness of the badly disorganised Carnival 2020 is weighing on the shoulders of the only people now upholding culture. But whose vision is limited to money. Easily the Panorama is
Guyana open for business, Granger tells Sabga [Same thing I have been talking about for months; this is why PAN cannot afford nobody like DANE GULSTON as ERO]
PAN TRINBAGO should have had a team working out PAN PLANS with the GUYANESE GOVERNMENT from the day that BEVERLEY took office. What a shame!!!
Guardian February 14, 2020
President David Granger on Thursday received a courtesy call from Chief Ex
Panland survives tough times
JULIEN NEAVES -Newsday
Panland president Michael Cooper highlights the miniature steelpans which the company manufacturers at its factory, Eastern Main Road, Laventille. - ROGER JACOB
THE PANLAND steelpan manufacturing company rests inconspicuously
Read more…DOCTOR deLIGHT: I need a SPECIAL FAVOR from you. Please come on THIS FORUM and HANG OUT with us on a DAILY BASIS until ASH WEDNESDAY!!!
Ah just love to read all your POSTINGS!!! If a PAN SIDE could play "WRONG AGAIN" with the literary DYNAMICS that you put into your USE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE we woulda done win ah GRAMMY FOR PAN MUSIC ALREADY.
Anyway:
Come leh we lime
As the people
Read more…Dwight Yorke Stadium - Tobago
| Location | Bacolet, Scarborough, Trinidad and Tobago |
|---|---|
| Owner | Government of Trinidad and Tobago |
| Operator | Ministry of Sports |
| Capacity | 7,500 |
| Surface | Grass |
| Opened | 2001 |
The Dwight Yorke Stadium, located in Bacolet, Scarborough, Tobago, (Trinidad an
Read more…FRUSTRATION IN THE PAN WORLD and dey TRYING TO BLUFF DEY WAY THROUGH ...
BEVERLEY FOOLING EVERYBODY and EVERYBODY SWALLOWING the BS.
I have ALWAYS STOOD UP for the EXPAT COMMUNITY and I WILL NEVER FOLD THAT HAND .., except when DEM YANKEE ARRANGERS go down to TRINIDAD and make themselves LOOK LIKE FOOLS because they can N
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