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Who is ALEXICA ADAMS -- The now FAMOUS Panorama Music Critic?

The Monsterrat Reporter April 2012

Montserrat’s music student Alexica Adams wins Myrtle Sammy bursary in Trinidad

The Trinidad Express earlier this year reported that the recipient of the year’s Myrtle Sammy Award was Alexica Alana Adams.

Adams, who

Guyana and Biden and Corona tie up meh head and ah almost forget about BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE and PAN TRINBAGO and all the FALSE PROMISES ...

How long that NEW PRO get appointed? And not a word yet from that MAN to PAN SUPPORTERS around the world. Dane Gulston is still the EXTERNAL RELATIONS OFFICER -- but he eh even lifting a finger INTERNALLY. We done hear the TREASURER is JUST A SHILL .

Former Panorama arranger: ‘South musicians have talent’

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Dr Jeannine Remy congratulates Jesse Jagnarine for placing first in the Steelpan Solo 21 Years and Under at the Music Festival at the Naparima Bowl in San Fernando.

Former Panorama arranger Dr Jeannine Remy’s appreciation

Award-winning youth steel pan orchestra performing in Stonebridge and Harlesden ahead of #Brent 2020 festivals

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Winsford Devine had the best ROYALTIES COLLECTION PLAN in TRINIDAD after CLIVE BRADLEY made him aware that he was being EXPLOITED ...

... He drive down by SPARROW house with THREE BADJOHNS in the car and they tell SPARROW is time to start PAYING ROYALTIES.

SPARROW tell them he cannot really remember which songs DEVINE write for him -- so how he go pay.

Well the BIG BADJOHN name BOL

Should Steel Orchestras like the Big 5 consider negotiating co-ownership of rights to Panorama arrangements?

The composer derives income from licensing the use of his compositions in performance, publication, and recording. If the orchestras are making (new music) the arrangements popular and desirable world wide, is not fair that a certain percentage of t

PAN NATIONALISM

http://mydatabag-hotmail.blogspot.com/2013/01/make-steelpan-countrys-national.html?spref=fb

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When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family and friends of Mr Eustace 'Manning' Henry & the Hells Gate Steel Orchestra franchise

When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family and friends of Mr Eustace 'Manning' Henry & the Hells Gate Steel Orchestra franchise.

Hells Gate Steel Orchestra

'Manning' Henry. Mr. Henry was a master Steelpan Builder, Tuner, Blender, Soloist an

Does Pan Trinbago pays a license fee to COTT?

Simeon L. Sandiford  ||  Winsford Devine - I believe that Pan Trinbago pays a license fee to COTT and this revenue is divided proportionately among the songwriters/publishers. David Bereaux can verify.

Steelpan legend Eustace ‘Manning’ Henry remembered

Pan grandmaster, Eustace ‘Manning’ Henry who died on Monday

1 – Hell’s Gate at Panorama 2010 
2 – Hell’s Gate members burning steelpans back in the day
3 – Hell’s Gate performing in Montserrat some years ago
4 – Hell’s Gate will mark its 75^th anniversa

NOBODY eh ANSWER ME and ALEXICA Lxc ADAMS as yet -- and it is really IRONIC that both she and I bounced from ISLAND to ISLAND in our TEENAGE YEARS ...

ALEXICA asked the question: If you NEVER PLAYED THE ORIGINAL SONG for almost FOUR MINUTES in the ARRANGEMENT -- how could the JUDGES give you POINTS for DEVELOPMENT of the ORIGINAL COMPOSITION.

THAT IS HER QUESTION ... but here is MY QUESTION!!!

Yuh

GREGORY LINDSAY: Yuh treating us FORUMITES like DOGS, BOY!!! Yuh promise to release the GATE RECEIPTS FIGURE from PANORAMA 2020 and man still waiting ...

GREGORY: And don't forget about the FINANCIAL REPORTS from the AGM in OCTOBER. And the ATTENDANCE and gate receipts from the TOBAGO PANORAMA.

Look GREGORY!!! Either you is ah REVOLUTIONARY or you are just a BEVERLEY SHEEP. Let me know RIGHT NOW!!!

An

Thinking of CALYPSO!!! A lot of times I reference CALYPSOS I almost always play a SPARROW -- but I am going to play a KITCHENER now with a little story behind it ...

This is one of my MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS in CALYPSO -- and I do HAVE MANY.

In 1963 I was going to school at BISHOPS in TOBAGO (and Jeremy will come and tell me that ah lie) -- but I will still tell my story ... much like JOHN AGITATION bringing you T

After my POLITICAL DEPRESSION today I decided to go and find ONE CALYPSO that could soothe my nerves ... guess what I came up with?

It was a choice between TWO SONGS because I find them both to be INTROSPECTIVE ....

US, UK, Canada, EU say Region Four results not credible -- [WHAT A DAY!!!]

Stabroek News March 5, 2020

"The envoys of the US, UK, Canada and the European Union today said the full count of Region Four’s elections results was not completed and they questioned the credibility of the results released today by GECOM."

Read Mor

AI & The Future of Panorama Judging

by Russell J C Providence

 
Can AI Be More Efficient Than People in the Steel Orchestra Panorama Judicial System?

Despite its widespread lack of familiarity, AI is a technology that is transforming every walk of life. It is a wide-ranging tool that

Commonwealth says [GUYANA] final results not yet tabulated, urges stakeholders to ensure legal process followed

Stabroek News March 5, 2020 ... 30 minutes ago

"Amid mounting chaos in the verification of the election results for Region Four, the Head of the Commonwealth observer team, Owen Arthur  this evening said final results for the general elections have n

I have never SEEN MYSELF as a CARIBBEAN MAN -- I have always seen MYSELF as a TRINIDADIAN ... but something about the GUYANA OIL SCENE had brought me to a CARIBBEAN PERSPECTIVE ...

... that I was LOOKING FORWARD TO with so MUCH HOPE. So as I follow the NEGATIVE DRAMA of the elections in that COUNTRY TODAY -- I have to say that this is the FIRST DAY that I have been REALLY DEPRESSED in DECADES. MAN OH MAN -- this was SUCH A GRE

THE MIGHTY SPARROW: B.G. WAR ... [Granger doh care if the whole ah GUYANA burn down ...]

REGION FOUR in UPROAR!!! RULING PARTY IN SHOCK!!! FOREIGN MINISTER loses it and threatens to take away ACCREDITATION from FOREIGN OBSERVERS ...

GRANGER allowed the PPP to get too much of a BIG LEAD on the OUTSIDE. So now his only chance to stay in POWER and SPEND THE OIL MONEY is to RIG THE VOTES in REGION FOUR. Ah cyar take the TENSION is too much to MENTION (ah wonder if ah have to pay ro