2016 Winners
Despers USA - STEELBAND 'BOMB' Competition
D'Radoes - STEELBAND CALYPSO Competition
Sumkinabakanaal - RHYTHM BANDS
Oildowners - TRADITIONAL OLE MAS:
You are the only man on this entire forum who could encapsulate: NFL Football, NBA Basketball, WST References, AMERICAN Politics (Hint: Hillary Clinton), Pan Trinbago (Another hint: Keith Diaz) and the mal-broadcast of the NEW YORK Panorama with one
Read more…The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: A look at the 2016 Brooklyn J’Ouvert Celebrations
New York, USA - 2016 Brooklyn J’Ouvert was tremendous, loving, fun-sharing - and it was an exhilarating joyous event pricked by heartbreaking tragedy. Two young lives
Austin Lewis, 73, known in the calypso world as King Austin, died yesterday, Sunday, morning at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital.
Austin’s son, Marvin King, said his father had been battling with Alzheimers for many years and added: “I was taking
Read more…by Michael "Brother Scobie" Joseph
Birdsong Steelpan Academy, epitomizes the phrase, 'a king has no honor In his own land'. Pantrinbago must take heed, because a blow to one is a blow to all. I tried looking at the unpleasant predicament of Birdsong
Read more…Wise Men have said to know the future you have to return to the past, Well for Pan on the Avenue 2016 Boogsie and phase 11 went way back to the past and had the audience who knew the calypsoes NEVER EVER WORRY by Lord Pretender and ICE MAN by Lord
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Tobago Region of Pan Trinbago will be presenting a Republic Pan Jam with four of the island’s steel orchestras.
Come Saturday September 17, D’ Colosseum Car Park, Milford Road, Crown Point, Tobago, will be the venue for th
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New York, USA - There were no rookies in New York Panorama 2016 when it comes to expectations wi
Read more…Every year I see the same thing and it grows more and more each year this year i seen 6 djs on the road for jouvert soon i will see them on truck on the route.
Read more…Still no pay for T&T 2016 Panorama players while Pan Trinbago bonding in North America.
Can we please get an estimate when the players of Trinidad and Tobago will be paid?
Read more…by -- Huffington Post
Think of the greatest joy you’ve ever felt. Think of what it was like to be blanketed in sheer bliss. Think of home, in every sense of the word: how it feels, how it looks, how it treats you, and what it means
Do u envision in the future T&T / USA sending each other's Panorama winners to perform in their Panorama finals as automatic qualifier's because of their victories or as a guest artist. or do u see transportation and housing and other things as a pr
Read more…Congratulations to D'Radoes Steel Orchestra on retaining the New York Panorama Championship for the third consecutive year.
Below is a direct quote from page 2 of the program booklet:
FAILURE:
Failure is lack of success of the pannist in a pan competition, ie, they fail to examine the nature of their problems. In an act of competing rivalry may be very tough and the co
Read more…I have seen time in and time out that when a band wins the next year they get larger! players will leave their band to go play with a big band to just say they played and won a panorama! but did you really win if you didnt but in the ground work with
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Brooklyn, New York, USA - Recently, it has been brought to WST's (When Steel Talks) attention, that someone who has to be considered technology-challenged, but is still in fact president or vic
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - birdsong acknowledges with the deepest gratitude the widespread outpourings of support for our cause that have been aired in both the conventional and social media in response to our recent eviction from the premises that we
