I used the term "Caribbean pitfalls" in recording PAN MUSIC on this forum recently and I was challenged to define the term. Almost in a way as if I did not have support for my statement. Many times I have said on this forum that I am here mainly to a
Read more…I am re-posting this for one primary reason. The format of this discussion forum is not friendly to multiple pages of postings on a single topic. I hope that software challenge gets corrected in the near future. So instead of leaving Bob's HISTORIC C
Read more…Jun 24, 2016 · by Yasmeen Khan
At P.S. 156 Waverly in Brownsville, Brooklyn, Principal Beverly Logan started the year thinking about how to tackle a 40 percent chronic absentee rate. That means that well over a third of her students
Read more…Read more…These are issues facing every carnival or mas band. It’s apparent in Notting Hill, where there’s an urgent need for younger designers, band-leaders, steelpan arrangers and players, and organisers to take over the reins from the old guard. Carnival ne
GospelOnDeBeatz and AlternateSound present Taking Over Me Live Version featuring Yemi Alade & Phyno. Read more…
It will be a “pantabulous” Sunday evening, come July 10, as the National Cultural Foundation and Massy Barbados Ltd launch Pan Pun De Sand 2016.
Head of information and communications technology at Massy (Barbados) Ltd, Allan Herbert, said his compan
Although Claude is suffering from the concussion Lebron and company gave him in game 6, he does raise an interesting point. Why do we spend so much time in the past when talking about Pan music and experiences? This is not something that is locked in
Read more…Looks like now is the time for a new assessment and review...
The Music Industry in Trinidad and Tobago
By:
Ralph Henry
Kairi Consultants Limited
14 Cochrane Street, Tunapuna, Trinidad, WI
Email:
rmhenry@wow.net
Website:
www.kairi.com
Alvin Daniel
To My Steelband Family:
Since 1960 this man has been tuning pans for the City Symphony Orchestra on St. Paul’s Street (behind the bridge) in Port of Spain. When Carnival finished that year, we were each paid $300TT for an entire season of tuning. D
Read more…Cecil, Boy: Ah under heavy manners on this forum. Brenda Hosang tell me to stop posting using CAPS. And ah next fellah tell me and bugs not to talk about basketball if we really love pan. And ah buy two CDs from ah english girl and she demanding that
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Global - Orman “Patsy” Haynes from Casablanca Steel Orchestra is simply one of the all-time greats of Pan. When Steel Talks (WST) spotlights Orman “Patsy” Haynes as we revisit his 1985 interview with academic, journalist, historian, and cultural an
Read more…Oswald Alexander and Bertel Gittens and Merrytonestothebone are three unheralded pan soldiers who work their fingers to the bone down in T&T and still find time to come on this forum and contribute to the discussions.
Dem three fellahs have some BIG
Read more…Inquiring minds would like to know if this non payment of the Trinidad and Tobago Pan Players, a national disrespect? An international disrespect? Or a good old fashion pan people disrespect? Because rumors have it that even the DJ from Panorama nigh
Read more…If the Cleveland Cavaliers played Pan there is no doubt that they would have given the Panorama champs a challenge.
Read more…Looking for list of the most popular calypso's of the 1930's qnd 1940's. Looking for songs the can be found written (sheet music) and /or recording. Thanks.
Tim Delaney/Steely Pan
Read more…On 91.9 FM steelband show last night a caller called in and said PANS long ago used to sound better and the best basses were DESPERS. The host asked who am I speaking to and the caller said BOOGSIE man, BOOGSIE SHARPE. and the host said BOOGSIE man.
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California, USA - ....His dad grew up on a farm and listened only to country music before [Joseph] Peck expanded his music appreciation to jazz, the steel drums or pans of Trinidad and Tobago, calypso, reggae and ultimately world music. Peck
Two-year-old Jamel Davy has a go playing with Lionel McCalman with Ayanna van der Maten (left) looking on at a street party for the Queen's 90th birthday in Blackbird Leys.
EVEN on a drizzly day in Oxford, this steel band managed to bring some Jama
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