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2020 Tune of choice for steel orchestras:
THIS PANORAMA get SIMPLIFY early!!! Betweeen "WRONG AGAIN" and "MORE SOKAH" -- is only THREE BANDS have a chance to come FIRST, SECOND and THIRD ...
RENEGADES and ALL STARS and DESPERADOES done LOCK UP the FIRST THREE SPOTS with these TWO SONGS.
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TMZ Reports -- KOBE BRYANT DIES IN HELICOPTER CRASH ...
Kobe Bryant died in a helicoper crash in Calabasas Sunday morning ... TMZ Sports has confirmed.
Kobe was traveling with at least 3 other people in his private helicopter when it went down. A fire broke out. Emergency personnel responded, but nobod
Read more…Congratulations to Trinidad All Stars Youths
When Steel Talks extends congratulations to Trinidad All Stars Youths, the 2020 winners of the under 21 Trinidad and Tobago Junior Panorama category.
Click for FULL JUNIOR PANORAMA RESULTS
photo - by Trinidad All Stars
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2020 Junior Panorama Results: Guaico Presbyterian, Bishop Anstey & Trinity College East (B.A.T.C.E.), and Trinidad All Stars Youth Steel Orchestras Claim Titles
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Great weather and sunny skies played host to enthusiastic music performances from no less than thirty-two Junior steel orchestras. All vied for 2020 titles in their respective categories of ‘Primary Schools,’ ‘Secondary S
Read more…We the CRITICS of Pantrinbago that exists on Tax Payers $$$, Are we fully supporting School and Med and large bands Panorama and pay per view stream, Are we just Talk we Talking or Mocking Pretenders.
We have been the staunch critics of this new Pantrinbago regime since they were elected into office, Namely, the VEE PEE and the AUDIT SCANDALS together with the CRACK SHOTS EPIDEMEDICT circling all categories of the Panorama and it is our rights as
Read more…Watch -- 2020 Junior Panorama Finals Live Steam
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Thirty-two Junior steel orchestras will be vying for championship status in their respective categories at the Trinidad and Tobago 2020 Junior/National Schools Panorama Finals at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain, on
Read more…Audit: TUCO mismanaging taxpayers $$ [News but not REALLY NEWS]
Guardian January 25, 2020
The audit spanned three years—between 2013-2016—and the final report was completed in April 2018 and submitted to the Ministry of Community Development, Culture and Arts (MCDCA) and Minister Dr Nyan Gadsb
Read more…Organiser: Raise standards of schools’ chutney soca music
Newday January 25, 2020

Chairman of the School’s Intellectual National Carnival Chutney Soca Monarch competition wants young people to bring change to the artform.
Dr Vijai Ramlal said the deliberate use of the word “intellectual” in the title of t
Read more…Well there is a NEW PANORAMA DISCUSSION going on in some HIGH MUSIC CIRCLES on the GROUND in THE MECCA on the subject of SHADOW ARRANGERS
You see, long time in PANORAMA when yuh see an ARRANGER name on a banner or you see that ARRANGER "conducting" the band in the PANORAMA COMPETITION -- MOST DEF he was the man who arranged THE TUNE for the BAND.
But now ah days it isn't so.
Some HIGH
Read more…How “badjohn” became a word
by Kim Johnson
So when a Trini calls you a badJohn, you’ll know the word originated as a descriptor for John “Bad John” Archer: a Barbadian born ex-soldier who had served in British West India Regiment, ex-Panama Canal worker
Read more…Pan fraternity mourns Pete Braxton, 31
Newsday -Yvonne Webb
Pete Braxton. -
The pan fraternity in San Fernando is mourning the death of one of its youth mentors, Pete Braxton.
Braxton, 31, died on Wednesday after ailing for more than a year.
He was the son of former soldier Joseph Wayne
Read more…Pan City Rising - NCC putting up $2.8m central stand
Joan Rampersad - Newsday
NCC chairman Winston "Gypsy" Peters is pleased with the Queen's Park Savannah stage. - Vidya Thurab
The National Carnival Commission (NCC) has started building the central stand for the Pan City at the Queen’s Park Savannah
Read more…ALL THINGS CONSIDERED (and I mean ALL THINGS) -- If KENDALL WILLIAMS cannot TAKE PAN ELDERS and go to TOBAGO and win that MEDIUM BAND COMPETITION ... then this PANORAMA TING is TOO CORRUPT for me!!!

Now, as a CALYPSO LOVER (and with my views on PAN MUSIC), I DO NOT LIKE the TUNE OF CHOICE. But even so, KENDALL WILLIAMS supposed to RUN ALL OVER dem other arrangers.
And speaking of RUNNING: I think that RUNNING QUARTERBACK thinks that he is going
Read more…Renegades Youth tops pan prelims
BP Renegades Youth - ROGER JACOB
THE BPTT Renegades Youth Steel Orchestra is going into Sunday's National Jr Panorama final with a boost of confidence, having topped the 21 and Under Category preliminaries which was held on Wednesday.
The band will
Read more…Kudos to Marcus Ash and the Youth Arm of Pan Trinbago
When Steel Talks extends kudos to Marcus Ash (pictured), Education Officer of Pan Trinbago and crew for bringing a sense of urgency and quality to the National Junior Panorama.
Quite frankly, in the past, getting information about the participant
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