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Ace pan arranger Duvone Stewart is calling for the national instrument to be mandatory in the school curriculum
Trinidad Newsday
Today, his wish remains “to see this instrument in all the schools as a compulsory instrument for students to learn music.”
“Funny enough, I have been a student at the Scarborough RC School… no pan, Scarborough Junior Secondary Schoo
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Fears of gang violence, steelband takes refuge at Savannah
Roadblock Steelband of Trou Macaque, Laventille, has relocated to the Queen's Park Savannah, Port of Spain, due to fears of borderline gang violence. - Gary Cardinez
Newsday -- THE young players of Roadblock Steel Orchestra are exposed to the elemen
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Today we say goodbye to our Woman of Steel the beautiful Vanya Reid
Today we say goodbye to our Woman of Steel the beautiful Vanya Reid
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A message to DUVONE STEWART and SALMON CUPID: You TWO GUYS are the GREATEST AMBASSADORS FOR PAN in the MODERN ERA (the world today) -- so don't waste allyuh time responding to THE BOTTOM FEEDERS!!!
YOU TWO have gone BEYOND THE CLOUDS OF PAN and you have to STAY FOCUSED on THE MISSION. Don't let the TRINI OLE TALK pull allyuh back down -- STAY ABOVE THE FRAY!!!
YUH UNDERSTAND?
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So MICHAEL JOSEPH say that THE BEV (The current PRESIDENT OF PAN TRINBAGO) is LYING about the $60,000,000 debt left by HIM and DIAZ and FORTEAU ...
Michael Joseph:
"Instead of lending support to our efforts at capacity building and institutional strengthening, THEY try to belittle our integrity with maliciousness?
Some SELLING a FALSE NOTION about a debt of SIXTY MILLION[$$$]."
Now I don't live
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Video Performances -- SMALL Steel Orchestra Prelims - 2020 Panorama - Northern Region
Pan Unity Centre Videos
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THE WINNING CALYPSO 2020 SMALL BAND PANORAMA: GOVERNMENT BOOTS
Ah hope they play it in CALYPSO and not some PSEUDO-CLASSICAL VERSION
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"The instrument is in good hands, because it is the only thing that matters, in terms of its economic value" - George D Goddard
Below is a thought from the son of George Goddard that is as true today, as it was yesterday, and will be tomorrow.
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IMHO: Steelbands were the "invention" of the same gang demographic, however, they were marginalized, because the society accept
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Steelpan music sheets for Junior Schools
Can anyone recommend a source for music sheets for steelpan music in the UK.
A school near me, South of Bristol has just started up and are looking for beginners' music sheets.
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Bob Lyons: How to Play Pan Gigs Full-time for 30 years, Part 1
3. What’s your biggest source of income as a pan musician? How did it become your biggest source?
“Playing live music. I don’t teach. And CD sales are pocket change. It’s always been about playing music live. Almost half my gigs are weddings. That’s
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Participants for Small Conventional Steel Orchestra Competition - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama 2020
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Trinidadian singer-songwriter Lord Invader’s Calypso Travels album reissued
Referencing his time at Belgium’s 1956 World Fair, his touring experiences and the rise of Fidel Castro.
He took his name from a suggestion from his tailor: “you should call yourself Lord Invader so when you go up to the city you be invadin’ the cap
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Eastern Small Conventional Steel Orchestra Preliminaries - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama 2020
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - While seeing to the Christmas ham, pastelles, parang, and like preparations, some Trinidadians and Tobagonians are also having another key focus: Pan. This, as the preliminaries in the small conventional steel orchestra cat
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Why did BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE pick A FIGHT with THE DOLLY?
I warned THE BEV not to come in TONG and put up SHE COLLAR -- especially not for THE DOLLY. But THE BEV doh ever TAKE ADVICE FROM ME!!!
Now THE DOLLY vex with THE BEV and she PUNISHING THE BEV by HOLDING BACK all KINDS AH MONEY FROM PAN TRINBAGO --
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When you have people like RUSSELL PROVIDENCE and LAWFORD DUPRES and GILLIAN BISHOP and AINSWORTH MOHAMMED sitting outside THE EXECUTIVE OF PAN TRINBAGO ... and you have people like ...
THE TREASURER and THE ERO and THE VEE PEE and THE PRESIDENT running that "WORLD GOVERNING BODY OF PAN" -- could you really expect PAN TO PROGRESS.
After reading THAT PASSAGE that I stole from RUSSELL PROVIDENCE about FIVE TIMES -- I AM DEPRESSED. Bec
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I am going to indulge in a little plagiarism here and claim ORIGINAL AUTHORSHIP of this passage ... and if I get sued I will pay in BLUE NOTES
"Promotion of mediocrity in the steelband fraternity by Pan Trinbago shall never cease, unless the system by which executives are elected to office changes. A moratorium on the registration of new bands may be necessary to conserve the quality that w
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Defence Force pushing hard in Panorama prelims - Panorama 2020 News
Trinidad Newsday
MUSICAL ECSTASY: Members of the Roadblock Steel Orchestra appear to be high on the music during judging for the preliminary round on Tuesday. PHOTO BY SUREASH CHOLAI in prelims of Panaorama small band competition playing in the dag
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Could somebody explain what the "PAN UNITY CENTRE" group is all about!!!
It seems like they went and TAPED the SMALL BANDS and I have also seen them mentioned here and there on a regular basis with their "PAN MUST ALWAYS BE THE WINNER" slogan.
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