Why do WST FORUMITES spend so much time LOOKING BACK at the SIXTIES (and SEVENTIES)?

I well understand FIXATIONS!!! But, LORD, this is WAY TOO MUCH. The WINDSHIELD in your car is about 80% larger than your REAR VIEW MIRROR and you spend less than FIVE PERCENT of your time looking into the REAR VIEW MIRROR when you are driving. Why? B

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Pan for Peace in Israel

GARY CARDINEZ Friday, June 17 2016

IT IS very obvious that the national musical instrument “steelpan” is under- utilised in the land of its birth. Apart from the pan camps and National Panorama competitions which determine the best playing steel orch

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Fathers’ Day steel drum concert set at 4-H center

The Franklin News Post

Event benefits SML Good Neighbors

Virginia, USA - SML’s Parrot Pan and Toucan Pan steel drum bands will perform for Father’s Day on Sunday, June 19 at 3 p.m. in the W.E. Skelton 4-H Center’s covered pavilion.

“This will be the

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St Lucia National Steel Bands Association elects new committee

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TT delegation to visit St. Lucia for roadshow

Press Release

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A VIDEO BY RITSON DOUGLAS

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Wallace Austin, Famous Pan Tuner needs Medical Help,

To When Steel Talks/ Pan Times/ James Foster,

I just learned that Wallace Austin, Famous Pan Tuner needs Medical Help, we can talk as much as we want on this web site Pan Trinbago more than likely from past experience will not do anything.

Can you or

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PATRICK RAMDOO said we playing smart with foolishness amplified band or amplified pans must have been a bad idea,where is it today.? IS HE FOR REAL?

In and earlier post about the  difference between TRIPOLI amplified band and HIGHLANDERS amplified pans, PATRICK  RAMDOO said bring the history, at the end of the day, it must have been a bad idea, where is it today . Could someone enlighten him on t

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The DIFFERENCE between amplified BAND TRIPOLI and amplified PANS HIGHLANDERS.

In the  late 1950's TRIPOLI amplified their band which was on a float with one MIC that captured the sound of the whole band  that came thru a speaker box. In the middle of 1960's Bertie marshall of Highlanders attached his MIC's directly to the unde

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Is there a VAST difference between KNOCKING IN a note and TUNING?

Casper Durant in a recent post stated...

If I am at a concert and for what ever reason a note should move, I could knock that note  in and be able to perform. That is not tuning, and this is exactly what most modern tuners can do, nothing more, you h

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Mayor saves St James pan festival

Trinidad and Tobago Guardian

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - As late as 8 p.m. on Thursday, when it seemed that tonight’s 16th annual steelband parade along Western Main Road, St James, would be cancelled due to a lack of funding, Port-of-Spain Mayor Kerr

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Steelpan Music Program and Performing Arts School, Meyer Levin Safe for Now!

City nixes bid to nest charter school inside Brooklyn's cherished Meyer Levin building

City school officials have scrapped a controversial proposal to place a charter in a beloved Brooklyn public school building, they said Friday.

The move comes aft

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PARTY TIME ONCE AGAIN ACROSS THE LAND!!!

It looks like PARTY TIME again in Trinidad. Oil went back over $50.00 a barrel and the PRIME MINISTER grabbed 2.5 BILLION from the HSF. So the streets are once again flush with free flowing CASH. All talk about DIVERSIFICATION OF THE ECONOMY will dis

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How about a tribute to THE MIGHTY SPARROW???

How about we discuss some SPARROW CALYPSO and praise the CALYPSO KING OF THE WORLD while he could still log on to this forum and enjoy the accolades.

What's your favorite Sparrow Calypso or Couplet or Calypso Topic or Melody or Rhythm or Personal Ex

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New York panorama and arrangers

My question is with the amount of arrangers based in New York or the states  why is it bands are bringing big arrangers to do the music for them is it worth the money to put out to fly them in even if you win are dont win. I credit despers for going

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My favorite Sparrow melody/song melody

My all time favorite has to be Jean & Diana

                                                                            

                                                                                                                                 

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North Charleston Middle School Performers Become Stars of Their Own Disney Show with Performance at Walt Disney World Resort

River Oaks Steel Band

River Oaks Honor Band

River Oaks Singers

River Oaks Middle School students from North Charleston, South Carolina entertained Walt Disney World Resort guests from across the nation and around t

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People studying pan in America

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago President Keith Diaz has renewed calls for a local masters degree programme in steelpan as people are learning Trinidad and Tobago’s national instrument in other countries.

....He sa

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Pan-America: calypso, exotica, and the development of steel pan in the United States.

Martin, Andrew Richard

2011-06

The American steel band story is one of migration and the appropriation of the national instrument of Trinidad by and for the cultural dominance of America. Moreover, despite its humble beginnings the steel pan has slo

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Panmen can’t get work

By JULIEN NEAVES Sunday, June 5 2016

A LACK of music literacy is hindering steelband arrangers from getting employment and has resulted in Panorama compositions not being recorded.

These were some of the concerns raised yesterday during the open

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