2020 Panorama Semi-Finals at the Queen's Park Savannah
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... when a STEELBAND decides to PLAY A CALYPSO -- is few men left in THIS WORLD who brave enough to walk down a DARK ALLEY with me AFTER MIDNIGHT and argue CALYPSO!!!
I eh come to TRINIDAD on NO BOAT and I see myself as a BORN AND BRED TRINIDAD NATIO
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - In tandem with the recent article Large Steel Orchestras Take Control of their Live Stream Broadcast and Production, WST (When Steel Talks) touched base with on-air personality and cultural activist Gerelle Forbes, who embo
Read more…After the DIAZ CORRUPTION I was much against DARREN SHEPPARD. But I have NO HORSE in the PAN RACE ... so I can listen OBJECTIVELY.
And I really enjoyed his ARRANGEMENT in the PRELIMS. Even though some of my BEST FRIENDS from the SOUTH sent me numerou
Read more…Now, I doh know NOTHING about PAN MUSIC!!! But if I was a PAN ARRANGER -- I would NEVER ATTEMPT to PLAY THAT CALYPSO ("WRONG AGAIN") in a PANORAMA.
So far, with ALL THE TRY THEY TRY -- NO ARRANGER has been able to DELIVER THE DOMINANT MELODIC line i
Read more…Dem lil HALF-AH-TRINI YANKEE BOYS -- they CANNOT HEAR CALYPSO!!!
You have to be BORN and GROW up in TRINIDAD to be able TO HEAR CALYPSO.
Now, to be honest, I don't know what the BREAK POINT AGE is -- but I am guessing somewhere between 18 and 25!!!
Read more…Beverley make meh wake up so early and now all ah seeing is ah empty stage!!!
WHERE IS THE MUSIC?
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Pan Trinbago president Beverley Ramsey-Moore, National Carnival Commission chairman Winston "Gypsy" Peters and Culture Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly tour the facilities at the Queen's Park Savannah ahead of Sunday's lar
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'm here. See you in the Grand Stand. I'll be wearing my WST t-shirt and hopefully sitting behind the judges. Come and say hello
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#ChroniclesofAPanorama.
If this was titled self excellence, in the headline, Akinola Sennon would have been blacklisted by the time his band, Siparia Deltones, crossed the stage at the Panorama semifinals. His refreshing arrange
Suraya Mohamed - NPR
Here's a first: Steelpans at the Tiny Desk. It's true. Nearly a thousand performances into the series and the instrument has never been featured, until now. While the two bowls look shiny and new in this Jonathan Scales Fourches
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - In spite of the all the brew-haha and local controversy over the recently-constructed “Pan-City” for Panorama 2020, some of the oldest and most revered steel orchestras in the world have vowed to display continued commitmen
Read more…I would start with SILVER STARS and STARLIFT and BIRDSONG and INVADERS and La Brea Nightingales; and of course -- ALL THE YANKEE ARRANGERS!!!
Read more…1 - Trinidad Valley Harps
2 - Steel Xplosion
3 - San City Steel Symphony
4 - Katzenjammers
5 - Pan Elders
6 - Dixieland
7 - Tornadoes
8 - Pamberi
9 - Couva Joylanders
10 - Sound Specialists of Laventille
11 - Siparia Deltones
12 - Potential Symphony
Dara Healy
IT WOULD not be an exaggeration to say that Kitchener’s music ruled the road. Apart from winning the Road March five times in the 1970s, his calypsoes were played by the winning Panorama large bands seven times.
From Margie to Play Mas, Tr
Read more…National Panorama 2020 Semi-Finals - Large Steel Orchestras
1. Exodus
2. Buccaneers
3. Invaders
4. Skiffle
5. Birdsong
6. Supernovas
7. Tropical Angel Harps
8. Trinidad All Stars
9. Renegades
10. La Brea Nightingales
11. Phase II Pan Groove
12. Foncl
