Revisted - PAT BISHOP - A Person In Pan - Women in Pan

PAT BISHOP - A Person In Pan
by Pat Bishop

A When Steel Talks Exclusive

Trinidad - I can’t say that gender has been a factor in my pan yard activities – which now span so long a period of time that I’ve forgotten when it all started!

I remember on

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“In The Rainforest” – An Unforgettable Steelband Experience - by Mark Loquan

Global - ....I returned to Trinidad in October 2000, specifically to play tenor with Skiffle Bunch, but I had only a week to learn the two pieces “In the Rainforest” and “Pan By Storm” before the finals. What a monumental effort. I remember learning

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Queen Mother A Desperadoes Fan!

When Steel Talks - News Reboot - March 11, 2011

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Guinness World Record for Largest Steelpan - Jomoline

The late Jomo Wahtuse was awarded the Guinness World Record for the largest steelpan in the world - the Jomoline. His claim for the Largest steel pan / steel drum - Claim Number: 313592 with the Guinness Book for Records has been successful and confi

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Revisited - Pelham Goddard - Thoughts on Panorama and Judging

The following was forwarded to When Steel Talks by veteran arranger Pelham Goddard

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Pelham Goddard challenges the qu

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Revisited - Do something for Pan and get EDUCATED!

Global - ....The Pan movement utterly lacks humility amongst its peers and supporters; conversely, it lacks audacity and a sense of community against its offenders.

....Boogsie”had it right ... “Do something for Pan”.  Not for your ego. Not for the

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Bomb Competition Results

Neal & Massy T’dad All Stars scored another victory, this time in the “Bomb” competition.

 

The Panorama 2011 winner copped the Pan Trinbago Northern Region’s J’Ouvert Bomb Competition on Carnival Monday morning at Victoria Square, Port of Spain, wit

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Steel Pan Blueprint For Success (Rough Draft Edit)

Steel Pan Blueprint For Success
(Rough Draft Edit)
by George D Goddard 

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I.  -  Recently, a pan colleague asked me what were my ideas on what needs to be done to “revive the pan movement...” (as he put it). In relation to that que

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Steelband: no stamp that said it was created in T&T?

A meeting took place yesterday, Wednesday in Trinidad in the Crowne Plaza Hotel to discuss Carnivals around the world.  If I'm reading the third "paragraph" in the article, which is really just one line - its printed:

• The minister said in the case o

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More Panorama 2011 Notes by Dalton Narine

More Panorama 2011 Notes by Dalton Narine
 

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -  Now that I can see things more clearly since eye surgery, allow me to avail readers with more material from the 2011 Panorama. And, yes, I trust my ears.

 

Raf Robertson, musician

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Toronto police mark day to eliminate racial discrimination

Toronto police mark day to eliminate racial discrimination

Toronto Community News 

Toronto, Canada - The North Albion Collegiate Institute Steel Band performed at 23 Division headquarters in north Etobicoke Thursday morning to celebrate the Toronto

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Emmanuel Riley - Pan Tuner and Renowned Pan Soloist Revisited

Emmanuel ‘Jack’ Riley in the Spotlight

You've heard of Len 'Boogsie' Sharpe and Robert Greenidge, two of the best steelpan players on the planet. Now in an exclusive When Steel Talks interview meet Emmanuel “Jack” Riley - the man who influenced them

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Michelle Huggins-Watts - Celebration of Women in Pan - Women's Month

Michelle Huggins-Watts
by Robbie Joseph

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - She is one of the world's foremost experts, educators and promoters of the steelpan instrument. Her name is synonymous with inspiring and guiding young musicians to achievement, greatn

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Pan Trinbago takes lion's share

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Ole Time Carnival 1959 - Video

Ole Time Carnival 1959

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Revisiting -- Showtime at the Savannah! - The Good, Bad and Ugly - A WST 2011 Panorama Review

Showtime at the Savannah!

“...With heart, faith and Steel. In the end there can be only one” - 2011 Panorama

One, two, three... nine, ten. It’s over! Good night, folks...

Like a scene out of the movie Rocky, or that classic still pictu

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The Dr., the Trinidad Guardian, and unauthorized "borrowing"

Global - ....It has been brought to our attention that works of Dr. Jeannine Remy which were written exclusively for When Steel Talks (WST) upon our request - to share with our

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Steelpan still in danger

Steelpan still in danger

2011-03-23

Pan in danger, sang Merchant in 1985. Today, 26 Panoramas later, it seems danger still exists.

Apparently panmen in Trinidad are fuming over being drowned out by the big music trucks in the recently concluded Carni

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Advance Dynamics Steps Up Big Time

After a horrendous performance in 2010 for the national panorama in Trinidad and Tobago,video production and post-production company Advance Dynamics stepped up to the plate and delivered a quality product in its live internet broadcast of the event.

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Thank You, Folks for Panorama 2011

Thank You, Folks for Panorama 2011

Panorama 2011 Completed - Take a Bow...

 

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