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Do arrangers of pan music seek consent of composers?

Newsday

THE EDITOR: Are writers of original musical compositions approached by pan arrangers to rearrange their original compositions? If so, are composers compensated from the prize monies won from the Panorama competition?

Customarily, steel pan arr

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A BILLION DOLLARS pass through TRINIDAD CARNIVAL THEY SAY -- and STILL TOBAGO PAN MEN EH GET PAY ...

... and DEY STAYING SILENT LIKE LAMBS because they DO NOT WANT to upset THE TOBAGO PRESIDENT. How backward could PAN PEOPLE BE?

And now with this CORONA THING -- the WHOLE ECONOMY going and CRASH and cost the nation 100 times that CARNIVAL BILLION.

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THE WISDOM OF THE BODY: EAT CALLALOO!!!

I could make this ah LONG STORY but ah KEEPING IT SHORT ... allyuh should be EATING CALLALOO (I am) to STAVE OFF THE CORONA ...

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Corona Virus Impacts Steelband Legend's Funeral

Newsday

Mourner turned away from pan pioneer’s funeral

Ingrid Jules touches her husband Neville Jules' casket as prayers are said at the Lapeyrouse cemetery prior to his burial on Friday. PHOTO BY AYANNA KINSALE - Ayanna Kinsale

Trinidad All Stars S

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Meet Gerelle Forbes - Trinidad & Tobago

Trinidad & Tobago. W.I. - “Women still cannot get the same RESPECT as their male peers...

“....So when I create and want to fall in love with the music and industry again…. I just go to the younger players. I create with them in mind. You don’t hav

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Ah like THE MAYOR OF NEW YORK and the GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK -- because DEM IS THE ONLY TWO DEMOCRATS JAMMING TRUMP ...

I am a DEMOCRAT AT HEART -- but I have MY ISSUES.

And I DON'T UNDERSTAND why THE DEMOCRATS are NOT JAMMING TRUMP -- LEFT AND RIGHT!!!

This is the FIRST TIME that they have him UP AGAINST A WALL -- and they are being VERY FEEBLE ... in MY OPINION.

Now

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When last ALLYUH see BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE so SILENT and not TOOTING SHE OWN HORN and BEATING SHE CHEST?

She LET DOWN she OWN TOBAGO PAN PLAYERS in a MOST SHAMEFUL WAY. It is sad that the STEELBAND COMMUNITY is so DEPENDENT and GIMME GIMME that they CANNOT OPEN THEIR EYES to SEE THE TRUTH.

DEY WORSE THAN THE TRUMP VOTERS!!!

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Cuba sends 53 Doctors and Nurses to Lombardy, Italy to assist in COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak

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POLITICS and COVID-19

In California, THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO is the SPRINGBOARD for STATEWIDE and NATIONAL POLITICS.

NANCY PELOSI, DIANE FEINSTEIN, KAMALA HARRIS, BARBARA BOXER, GAVIN NEWSOM, WILLIE BROWN -- all gained NATIONAL POLITICAL STATURE from their SAN FRANCISCO

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PANdemic - When nobody wants you!! -- Lessons in and for Pan - Remember who your friends are...

CNN

Virus-hit cruise ship MS Braemar docks in Cuba after Caribbean odyssey

(CNN) — A British-operated cruise ship left stranded in the Caribbean when people aboard became sick with coronavirus has finally docked in Cuba after a fraught search for a

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Lebron James sued $150,000 for posting his own picture on Facebook - Pan and Mas take note

Novieku-Babatunde Adeola | Staff Writer - Face 2 Face AFRICA

Lebron James playing for the Lakers_Photo: HypeBeast

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CECIL HINKSON: All the years you make me come on THIS FORUM and work for you FOR FREE -- and I thought that YOU care about PAN PLAYERS ... but since BEVERLEY take over you and EARL get soft soft soft!

Cecil: If it wasn't for you -- I woulda NEVER COME ON THIS FORUM. Because I consider you to be the GREATEST PAN LOVER IN THE WORLD ... so I came to give you some SUPPORT.

And whenever ANYBODY ever attacked me -- you came to my side to FEND THEM OFF.

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Well yuh think dat ROWLEY could go to ITALY and say we HAVE CORONA -- yuh MAD oh meh LARD OHH ... ITALY have MORE CORONA more than TRINIDAD ...

... so why neglect YUH CULTURE and PAYING TOBAGO PAN PLAYERS for dey PANORAMA PERFORMANCE and EFFORTS EXTRA ... yuh making me FEEL SAD because TOBAGO and TRINIDAD PAN PLAYERS is THE CULTURE OF TRINIDAD ...

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When it comes to PAN PROGRESS -- I don't get DISTRACTED by NOTHING ... NOT EVEN THE CORONA VIRUS. So I want TO KNOW when the TOBAGO PAN PLAYERS getting PAID by BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE ...

People getting DISTRACTED!!! But I have always been here to talk PAN and CALYPSO.

(And if allyuh GET FOOL with that LONDON BREED PROPAGANDA -- THE MAJOR OF SF -- about THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA and the SHELTERED IN PLACE NONSENSE .... I could tell a

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Dear Corona -- Khuent Rose

A Moment in Pan

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Calling on some serious help for San Francisco & New York

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OBAMA warn TRUMP about a coming PANDEMIC -- TRUMP EH LISTEN!!!

Politico March 16, 2020

[bugs: make sure you read this!!!]

"Seven days before Donald Trump took office, his aides faced a major test: the rapid, global spread of a dangerous virus in cities like London and Seoul, one serious enough that some countrie

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Post-Coronavirus, How Will Live Sound Go Back to Work?

Clive Young Pro Sound

How will the live-sound industry have changed when it comes out of its coronavirus-induced hibernation?

New York, NY (March 17, 2020)—With the coronavirus continuing to spread throughout the U.S., live events and the production

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GYPSY and COLIN LUCAS run up $78 MILLION$$$ in debt in their first two years running the NCC ... and now these same TWO MEN are supposed to PAY TOBAGO PAN PLAYERS ... no suprise the NCC ACCOUNT EMPTY

NCC owes $78m to service providers ...

Ah sure allyuh remember THIS STORY which was already discussed on THIS FORUM. So how BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE could trust these two CROOKED MEN to pay TOBAGO PAN PLAYERS in a timely manner. Clearly she is complicit

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Artist of the Year 2020: Instrumental music…

by Heide Janssen | Orange County Register

The following students have been named as nominees for the 2019 Artist of the Year in instrumental music. We received 117 nominations from teachers and private instructors at Orange County high schools and ar

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