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GREGORY LINDSAY: When you become CHIEF EXECUTIVE of PAN TRINBAGO ...
I am going to self-employ myself as part of your ADMINISTRATION. I am going to be your EXPAT ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT. NO SALARY!!! I am a VOLUNTEER. And I am going to work on MARKETING PAN MUSIC GLOBALLY and contacting FOREIGN MINISTRIES OF CULTURE
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Meet Athena Nichole - New York, USA -- Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form
Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form
“I feel when you truly love something or someone musically, you can NEVER just like one of their pieces. Clive Bradley will always be my favorite arranger because of his inventiveness to create masterpi
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IJ Lobby Lounge: The joyful sound of Drums of Fire, the Davidson Middle School Steel Pan Band
Davidson Middle School students perform as part of the Drums of Fire steel pan band. The IJ Lobby Lounge went on location for the first time to record our
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Music pioneer Johnny Gonsalves succumbs to pancreatic cancer
Gonsalves, a former chief judge for Digicel Rising Stars, succumbed to his illness at 5.58 am on Friday in Florida.
Gonsalves was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2016 and migrated to the United States to seek alternative treatments.
Co-founder of
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There has been a significant Guyanese contribution to steel pan technology
Dear Editor,
I was pleased to read, if belatedly, the Wednesday, February 22, Stabroek News editorial headed ‘Pan-O-Rama.’
As a member of the steel pan fraternity, I must say that while much of it was okay, I found some key points to be both extreme
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Straying a little bit from the Pantrinbago Fiasco, What does WST Members think of the 59 TOMAHAWK MISSLES fired into SYRIA in retaliation of the chemical attack on innocent civilians.
President TRUMP launches military strike against SYRIA. Is this the beginning of more strikes against Terrorist Countries, another world war, the decline of tourist traveling to other Countries including Trinidad and Tobago. how long will it last? T
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Meet Crystal Noel - Trinidad & Tobago - Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form
Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form
“...funding is the most serious issue. Pan is hard work - talent or not - and most times the reward for playing pan can never compensate for the long nights on your feet or the 6-7 days of practice jus
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Meet Kimberli St. Clair - Trinidad & Tobago - A Celebration of Women in Pan
A Celebration of Women in Pan
“I am proud of the fact that there are still some people who genuinely love the instrument and just love to play. Those are the people that show that there is still hope for the art form. I am most proud of the fact th
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Trinidad’s Skiffle Steel Orchestra returns to Sweet Briar for concert, student workshops
April 5, 2017 | By Janika Carey
Members of Skiffle perform live. Photo by Tony Howell
Sweet Briar College will welcome back Trinidad’s famed Skiffle Steel Orchestra for a special concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 13, in Murchison Lane Auditorium
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While thinking if Pantrinbago will have NEW or same OLD LEADERSHIP in the near future i decided to post this short video for the ( BACK TO THE FUTURE) man Cecil Hinkson.
Cecil this is a short early 1980s video of a Steelband and its Masqueraders crossing on top of the savannah stage together, not like now when Mas only on stage and Steelbands on trucks on the side, I guess the savannah stage was made stronger in the
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Inspire: High school senior wins college scholarship with steel pan talent
Inspire: High school senior wins college scholarship with steel pan talent. (ABC7)
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Pan Masters Steel Orchestra experienced a personal tragedy.
PanMasters Instrument Fundraiser
During the weekend of February 11- 12, 2017, the Pan Masters Steel Orchestra experienced a personal tragedy. Our secured Music Studio in North Brentwood, Maryland was vandalized and our Truck, Band Equipment and two
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Breaking news coming from the southland !
The leader of popular south large band NLCB Fonclaire has announced that long time arranger Ken Professor Philmore will no longer be the arranger for the band.The new arranger will be Leon Foster Thomas who is also from the southland.It was an execut
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Roy Cape All Stars plays no more
GARY CARDINEZ Trinidad Newsday
AS of March 1, after 57 years, veteran musician and band leader Roy “Pappy” Cape “hung up” his prized Selmar Parris Super 80 saxophone as a performer with the long-standing brass band he formed - Roy Cape All Stars.
He
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Radio Station
In New york is their a radio station dedicated to pan music or a time slot
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LET IT BE KNOWN....
In spite if how things may seem at times, all members here on the forum want what's best for the Steelband and Pan People in the Mecca. Let's see how we can use the Internet to accomplish this.
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Revisited - Junior and Edwin Pouchet of Silver Stars Steel Orchestra
A Tale of Two Brothers and Their Band
by Dalton Narine
Published with permission from Dalton Narine.
Submitted to When Steel Talks by Dalton Narine.
Always, it seems, something’s going on down there in Cocorite. In the late 1940s and 50s, a steel
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