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Does sponsors regret dropping their sponsorship of Steel orchestras when another sponsor comes to the rescue and the band becomes more successful ?

I remember  in the late 80s a sponsor severing ties with a popular Steel orchestra and another sponsor came to their rescue, Over the years the band became more popular and very successful with its new sponsor. Do the former sponsor regrets its decis

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Human capital key to refining Navy Band

The Nation

 In: Arts & Life, Life - The Midweek Magazine

The Nigerian Navy Orchestral Department would deliver better refined renditions unique to her various folklores, if quality investments were channelled to human capital development, an Associ

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Unrequested Advice for Big5 Concert

Make sure you hire professionals to video tape and properly document the bands' performances. This will allow the organizations involved to generate income for years to come from these performances in the future "while you are sleeping".

Make sure NO

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UWI graduates underemployed

Trinidad Newday

NEW Principal of the University of the West Indies (UWI), St Augustine campus Professor Brian Copeland said there is unprecedented levels of underemployment of UWI graduates even in the high demand professions of medicine and law.

He

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Toronto All Stars Steel Orchestra wins GOLD in Australia.

Congratulations to Salmon Cupid and TASSO on their big win.

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Antigua - What the bands are playing for Panorama 2017

Antigua & Barbuda National Panorama Steel Orchestra Music Competition The Anatomy of Panorama 2017 - Quick Chart

St. John’s, Antigua & Barbuda, W.I. - Nine steel orchestras are scheduled to take the stage in the capital of Antigua & Barbuda to vie

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Pan and more at Pan Fusion

Barbados -- Nation News

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Percussionist Cote Plays Steel Drum on LIVE

“When I’m playing a song I want to impress myself. I want to grow in front of the audience,” Aaron Abrahamson Cotesays. 

Cote is recognized as one of the most elite percussionists on the live music scene in Rhode Island. He’s also performed in 35 c

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So where is THE RIGHT HONOURABLE KEITH DIAZ in the middle of this Seminal Production of 5 Pan Titans?

BIG PAN SHOW in the SAVANNAH this Saturday and NOT A WORD from the RIGHT HONOURABLE KEITH DIAZ or the PRO who is sitting there and WATCHING the MARDI GRAS (White People) steal the PAN from right under the nose of the AFRO TRINIS who invented the inst

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Would a SLOW JAM competition held after the national Panorama appeal to specators???

From a YouTube poster...Jerry Dolabaille

It's my firm belief that there should be a competition for arrangements done at SLOW JAM tempo. To the average listener like myself we will be better able to identify intricate passages and also feel the mood

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Pupils play last gig for church garden party

                       

Seahouses Steel Band at an open garden event

More than 150 people turned out to see youngsters from a north Northumberland middle school play steel pans at a garden party. The event, hosted by Jan and Colin Brunt, was held in

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More research needed of Caribbean niche products - Prof Morrison

Loop - 

Professor Morrison identified Caribbean niche market products as ethnic music inclusive of Reggae, Dance Hall and Steel Pan; tourism which involves marine studies and eco-awareness; and sports involving athletics and netball. Photo via Jamai

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St. Vincent & The Grenadines Panorama 2017 Results - It’s “Gold” for Starlift Steel Orchestra & Arranger Duvone Stewart

Kingstown, St. Vincent & The Grenadines, W.I. - All that glittered was indeed gold, and this was the case for Starlift Steel Orchestra of St. Vincent and The Grenadines on the night of Thursday July 6, as they played their way through to the 2017 Pa

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Youth taking pan higher...

With most of the old guard of the steelband world in the autumn of their years it is now up to the youth to take the national instrument forward and upward to greener pastures and higher ground. Almost every one of our steel orchestras, inclusive of

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Do you remember this slogan (PAN IS BEAUTIFUL)? Is Pan still beautiful or will the BIG 5 (ISF) give Pan a needed facelift to Charm the world again?

Not long ago I remember this slogan Pan is Beautiful, But in recent times things has change dramatically. Pantrinbago in debt, players not getting paid, So to right the ship, up comes the New Visionaries, CIP, UPPM, Gregory Lindsay, Aquil and others

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Steel Band Festival coming to Edmonds July 20

Edmond Beacon

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Courts Babonneau Steel Orchestra received $25,000 from Courts to compete in National Panorama Competition 2017

St. Lucia News Online

Babonneau Steel Orchestra

Castries, St. Lucia, W.I. - This year even with the challenges artistes, event planners and groups face securing sponsorship for participation in National Carnival Events, furniture and electrical giant

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SOG, Dow move steelpan school to Festival Village

The Daily Herald

PHILIPSBURG--The foundation for government buildings Stichting Overheidsgebouwen, (SOG) signed a one-year agreement on Wednesday with Isidore “The Mighty Dow” York to house his steelpan classes at St. Maarten’s Festival Village.

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Republic Bank donates over $1M to steel pan programme

Guyana Times

Republic Bank Limited (RBL) has donated the sum of $1.066 million to the Ministry of Education’s (MoE’s) steel pan training programme known as the ‘Republic Bank’s Right Start Pan-Minors Music Literacy Programme’.

Receiving the donation

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Happy Birthday to Jared McCallister - July 16

When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to NY journalist Jared McCallister.

NY Daily News

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