EARL RICHARDS: If they wanted an ENTRANT from LONDON (ENGLAND) or CANADA -- all they had to do was to SEND ME AN EMAIL or come on WST -- I have ah GIRLFRIEND in LONDON and a BOYFRIEND in CANADA ...

... and I COULDA HOOK THEM UP!!!

I coulda call up BOTH AH DEM and PUT THEM ON THE HUNT and we could have had 5 BRITS and 5 CANADIANS in the INTERNATIONAL PAN RAMAJAY. So I don't want NO EXCUSES from THE EXODUS BRASS!!!

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I have a NEW RESPECT for ANDRE WHITE!!! With a BIG NAME like HIS -- he took the risk to enter in ALL THREE CATEGORIES ... THAT MAN REALLY LOVE GLOBAL PAN PROGRESS!!!

DEM LOCALS cannot even understand the "G" in Globalizing PAN MUSIC!!! Much less the rest of the letters!!!

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DEY CYAR MAMAGUY AH BIG MAN!!! SALAH WILSON (MY COUSIN) spent his whole adult life in CANADA teaching and promoting PAN with all kinds of MUSIC ACADEMY --you mean to tell me that EXODUS ...

... could not CALL UP SALAH WILSON and tell him (DEMAND OF HIM) that CANADA come up with TWO ENTRANTS in this INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA?

Like dem YOUNG PEOPLE who take over EXODUS and think that they understand the GLOBAL PAN TING step on ah banana pee

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I cannot believe that the organizers of THE INTERNATIONAL PAN RAMAJAY did not have the foresight to include ONE PAN MAN FROM GRENADA ...

Now, I am NO ADVOCATE for GRENADA -- especially to anyone who has ever read my comments on TRINIDAD POLITICS. But GRENADA is one of the islands that promoted PAN from early. And I think that at least TWO of their PAN PLAYERS should have been featured

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Message of Hope and Resilience -- Canadian Caribbean Association of Halton

The last week of May 2020 was a difficult one as we were reminded of the continued existence of anti-Black racism both in Canada and the United States. The circumstances surrounding the death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet who died subsequent to a

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WAR! - Trinidad All Stars

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Invaders Steel Orchestra pioneer Errol Zephyrine has NOT passed

When Steel Talks is pleased to announce that Errol "Augmented" Zephyrine is alive and well.   He was one the Invaders Steel Orchestra pioneers and standout musicians. He also represented Starlift Steel Orchestra in the Trinidad and Tobago National S

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Remembering Anthony Rouff: Pan Activist and Omniscient Narrator of Steelband History by Peter Noel

Before he suddenly passed away on May 24, Anthony Rouff, who relished the style of injecting searing “picong” into conversation and polemic writing, was looking forward to celebrating 2022: this would be the 50th anniversary of the publication of hi

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If any CARIBBEAN COUNTRY wants to LAY CLAIM to having one of the BEST HEALTH-CARE SYSTEMS in THE WORLD -- it has to be NEVIS-ST. KITTS!!!

15 COVID-19 CASES and ZERO DEATHS!!!

Hey, NUMBERS DON'T LIE -- RIGHT!!!

I am still QUITE INTRIGUED as to how THE CARIBBEAN escaped the CHINESE LEASHED-UPON-THE-WORLD VIRUS!!!

Ah leave out "FOR CHINA WORLD DOMINATION" in my QUALIFIER!!!

ST. KITTS eh

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A Moment NOT in Pan

Still Separate and Unequal

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Get up and Watch... It's Showtime! NY Pan Stars performs "Finesse" by Bruno Mars

Get up and Watch... It's Showtime! NY Pan Stars performs a slamming Marc Brooks arrangement of "Finesse" by Bruno Mars

"New York Pan Stars - performed a Marc Brooks-arrangement of Bruno Mars’ “Finesse” that skillfully traversed the decades of music

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When Things Fall Apart - An Opinion by Handle-That

All Lives Matter

The aftermath of all of this is protests that have turned into chaos. People are outraged. When will it be enough? When will the time come that black Americans either minding their own business or even those accused of minor infracti

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Condolences to the family and friends of "Beverly Fonrose" of Starlift Steel Orchestra

When Steel Talks extends condolences to family and friends of Beverly Fonrose of Starlift Steel Orchestra. You will be missed.

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"One Love: How Reggae Music Inspired The World" [The MUSIC COGNOSCENTI in TRINIDAD have no clue how much WORK and DEDICATION went into making REGGAE a GLOBAL PHENOMENON]

The MUSIC COGNOSCENTI in TRINIDAD want to believe that JAMAICANS went to sleep one night and woke up next morning to discover that REGGAE MUSIC had become a GLOBAL PHENOMENON. So they are dreaming dreams that they will wake up tomorrow and 50 MILLION

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Hell No, The Beat Is Not Gone - Ray Holman’s New CD “FIRST LOVE” Keeps The Music Going

It’s Celebration time for Ray’s first love, PAN

by Dalton Narine

Global - I feel pretty, now that I’ve flirted with Holman’s take on his lover boy spin about Pan, the new world’s glorious instrument. Ray Holman Holman lights a fire under the instrum

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Treasurer of United States Steelband Association Inc (USSA) Resigns

Steelpan Music News

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The Pan Trinbago Social Prosperity Fund presents Pan Do-Nation Drive

Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago Inc. has joined a number of organizations across Trinidad & Tobago in providing assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Can T&T do it too?

Guardian May 27, 2020

"The recently streamed clash between Jamaican dancehall MC’s Bennie Man and Bounty Killer called Verzuz, has arguably resulted in greater global influence of Jamaican culture - but it has also given rise to discussions about T&T

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Stories of steel — the future of the steelpan | Panorama

Caribbean Beat

Carnival is the season of steelpan. But behind the Panorama stage, the future of T&T’s national musical instrument will be shaped by administrators, craftspeople, arrangers, and educators — like these men and women profiled by writer S

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