Here are THREE CALYPSOS that begin right in THE MIDDLE OF THE ACTION ...
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So I had to settle for THIS VERSION!!! She tries hard but she does not have the DEPTH OF TONE and sense of MOCKERY to DELIVER THE LYRICS -- but I have to give her CREDIT for GOOD DICTION!!!
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WE SO TALENTED ... but ah still waiting for ONE GREAT PIECE of GLOBAL PAN MUSIC from the GREATEST PAN PLAYERS IN THE WORLD.
Meanwhile ah going and listen to ANDY!!!
I have to go back to THE BEST OF ANDY NARELL(SUPER GENIUS -- REALLY)
I got the impression that with or without the $500,000,000 allocation to THE ARTS from the NEW BUDGET -- this production was in FULL SWING ...
The 2021 Virtual Carnival is On
Read more…TUNE IN TO STEELPAN MELEE WITH PETRA WILLIAMS & KHAN KC CORDICE
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Listen to the late iconic steelpan pioneer, tuner and panist Mikey Enoch in his own voice.
This seminar was captured at a When Steel Talks/Basement Recordings pan class in the early 1990s.
Tuner Mikey Enoch was unequivocally one of the pillars of the
... there was NO FINANCIAL REPORT in 2019 -- and you CANNOT BLAME COVID FOR THAT!!!
In 2020 they are BLAMING COVID for not producing a financial report. Yet they sent a TREASURER on THIS FORUM to boast about her GOD-GIVEN ADMINISTRATIVE SKILLS -- and
Read more…In TRINIDAD POLITICS they like to say: "IS WE TIME NOW!!!"
In California THE LATINOS (MEXICANS, REALLY) are putting it in more formal language: “Our voice remains missing from the highest levels of our government, even though we are 40% of the state
Read more…The Steel Pan Builder completes the first stage in the construction of a percussive instrument. The Builder processes the raw material, the steel drum, in
Global - “If I do have a blueprint, it is embedded in my head. The younger tuners today have a more systematic approach with actual measurements. Older tuners still eyeball a lot of the steps. In today’s world, we have a lot of specialization where
Read more…Trinidad Express October 23, 2020
Now in its 34th year, the Divali Nagar has grown into the largest celebration of its kind in the western hemisphere. Now the producers expect that this virtual run because of Covid-19 will attract as large a number o
But even when we CONSTRUCT the PERFECT PAN TONE, you still have to learn to REPRESENT IT from the KEYBOARD.
OUR PAN SOLOISTS and THESE SYNTHESIZER PAN TONE DEVELOPERS all try to make THE PAN sound like a PIANO -- that KILLS the UNIQUE MUSICAL BEAUTY
Read more…Personally, I consider ACTION IS TIGHT to be the FIRST SOCA SONG RECORDED. At the time that I asked ROSE to autograph THIS ALBUM she told me that it was worth $100 -- way back in 1993. But I think that it is worth a SPOT in a CALYPSO MUSEUM!!!
Ontario Canada - This documentary by Claire Prieto and Roger McTair examines steel drum production, education, performance and cultural influence in Ontario in the 1970s and 1980s. It follows the stories of men and women who work with steel drums in
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - ....We talk ad nauseum about a future built on innovation but keep missing the dirty tricks that history has played in bequeathing us the legacy of an economy where it is possible to become a multi-million
Read more…... so in 1978 I moved from WASHINGTON DC to SAN FRANCISCO ... still full of my TRINIDAD IDEAS. A few weeks later I went out into the backyard of my NEW SURROUNDINGS and got the SHOCK OF MY LIFE -- a HUMMING BIRD was hanging out next to a tree in THE
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