Hundreds flocked to John Marshall High School last weekend in support of a local teacher afflicted with breast cancer, raising nearly $2,100 at the Steel Band Fest.
Band Director Tracey Filben said the turnout was “fantastic” for the event, which oc
Read more…What ever COMPENSATION we agree on, I will DONATE to the GUARDIAN NEEDIEST CASES FUND!!!
(When is CHARITY/I give ah DONATION -- Marcus Ash ah steal dem lyrics from SCRUNTER!!!)
So it is NOT A MONEY TING!!! It is about TAKING PAN MUSIC GLOBAL -- and i
Read more…I know that this is a FAR LEFT FORUM but REALITY IS REALITY and it is only in CALYPSO that THE TRINIDADIAN touches reality!!! (Marcus Ash: Is Naipaul who say that -- not me!!!)
And we have to admit that after THE REPORT got released -- THE DONALD B
Read more…What is Pavarotti really singing about in Puccini’s aria? We translated the Italian lyrics to find out...
‘Nessun Dorma’ is an incredibly emotional aria, that for the passion and precision he poured into it, we have all come to associate with the lat
Read more…There is (ah have to stay with the dialect here) THREE things that you do not have to advertise in TRINIDAD: Christmas, New Years and PANORAMA.
But BEVERLEY hire a whole MASSIVE CREW to MARKET PANORAMA. And then I hear that the team get paid about 2.
Read more…Naparima MP Rodney Charles said it is not surprising TT has been left outofa meeting with US President Donald Trump.
In an interview with Newsday today, Charles said this country was left out because of the negative stand the Government took towards
Read more…Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form
“From my perspective I personally feel it (Panorama) is indeed a blessing. The people that I have met over the years, there is a likelihood I would never see again. I’ve got the chance to perform in fro
Read more…Thanks for that VIDEO -- odw and BEDE!!! The most intriguing piece of PAN MUSIC I have heard in a very LONG TIME!!!
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The NY Times
EAST LANSING, Mich. — The trumpeter Etienne Charles stood in a Michigan State University classroom on a recent Tuesday evening — about 2,000 miles north and 50 degrees Fahrenheit south of his native Trinidad — and spoke to the undergrad
Read more…Newsday March 19, 2019
THE RECENT announcement by Minister of National Security Stuart Young and supported by Commissioner of Police (CoP) Gary Griffith and acting Prime Minister Colm Imbert that Carnival should end by 9 pm on Carnival Tuesday, star
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Guaico Presbyterian Steel Orchestra during their winning performance
The Honourable Anthony Garcia, Minister of Education followed, and who—while praising the art form, the event that would unfold throughout the day, and especially the young
Read more…As an alternative to Pan Yard judging, the facilities at the Savannah should be given serious consideration for the preliminary round of Panorama 2020.
Read more…THE PRIME MINISTER!!!
THE CHIEF JUSTICE!!!
THE PAN TRINBAGO PRESIDENT!!!
THE WINNING PANORAMA ARRANGER -- THE BEST PAN ARRANGER IN THE WORLD!!!
Everybody from TOBAGO and yet people trying to convince me for years about all the GENIUSES from TRINIDAD
Read more…A highly respectable and informed PAN COMMENTATOR is putting the blame for the TIME-WASTING removal of PANS from the stage after each performance squarely at the feet of BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE. And he seemed rather annoyed that THE PLAYERS (who played
Read more…San Francisco - Classical Voice
(M)iyamoto Is Black Enough
At the first break for applause after a face-melting drum solo, poet and spoken-word artist Roger Bonair-Agard commanded, “This ain’t golf, make some noise for Sean Dixon, the filthiest drumm
Read more…With a fruitful work registered during the 30 years of its creation, Steel Band del Cobre already has credentials in the musical taste of Cubans, and particularly among outstanding performers of the country, who recognize the uniqueness of that timbr
Read more…Prof Brian Copeland said today his vision for the University of the West Indies' St Augustine campus was to help in the development of the national economy and make it more sustainable, through microenterprise.
Speaking at UWI’s consultation with the
Read more…Now, I COULDA swear that I READ ON THIS FORUM that AQUIL ARRINDELL and GREGORY LINDSAY and CECIL HINKSON and DUVONE STEWART and DANE GULSTON and EARL RAMSEY and BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE and DENISE HERNANDEZ and BERTEL GITTENS and EARL RICHARDS and VALEN
Read more…Beverley promise TRANSPARENCY 1000 times on the CAMPAIGN TRAIL. But now the PANORAMA has been hailed a SUCCESS (the greatest ever, she said) with RECORD ATTENDANCE and the PAN PUBLIC is still waiting to see some NUMBERS.
Like what was the attendance
Read more…Daily Beast
A new documentary at SXSW attempt to get to the bottom of who, exactly, let the dogs out in the first place. The answer is more complicated than you could imagine.
Keith Wainwright was the proprietor of a salon in London called Smile, wh
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