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Meet Nigel Byam, Director of Marketing, New Dimension Steel Orchestra, Grenada - UpClose!

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Calypso, Carnival, Steel Band: Expressive Cultures of the Caribbean Diaspora

Canada - The performance of ‘Esso Tripoli Steelband’, Trinidad and Tobago’s representative of the nation musical heritage for Canada’s centennial celebration ‘Expo 67’ in Montreal was a watershed moment in North American culture and arts. Canada's Ca

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Steelpan 101 with Khuent Rose

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CECIL HINKSON: This MEDIUM SEPARATION might be a good thing; Two of them bands could set up couple BLOCOS in the CARNIVAL WEEK ...

Cecil: When the TOBAGO MEDIUM FINALS done, all dem MEDIUM TOWN BANDS FREE -- so they could organize a COUPLE BLOCOS between the TUESDAY and FRIDAY in sections of the city.

All the GLOBAL EXPAT TOURISTS already ON THE GROUND so they could draw some ni

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Ingrid Blackwood-Belle: "PROSPERITY IN PAN" turn into STRETCH OUT YUH HAN to the GOVERNMENT for HANDOUTS

Ingrid: Yuh encourage everybody to VOTE FOR BEVERLEY because two ah allyuh was going to bring PROSPERITY TO PAN and now yuh running and stretching out your han for GOVERNMENT HANDOUTS saying that is the ONLY WAY TO SURVIVE.

Ingrid:You and MARABUNTA B

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Bream Bay: College steel pan band strikes right note at music fest

The Panimals playing at PANZfest 2019 in Melbourne: Laura Corbet (front left), Scott Brown, Hayden Bartlett, Maraea Henry, Joseph Brady (back left) and Mirabella Uphof. Photo / Holly Munford

Rocklea, Queensland, Australia

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Tuning 101 with tuner -- Andy Niels

Tuning 101 with tuner -- Andy Niels in Aruba

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Steel Margarita Pens Tune About Her Love for LBI

The SandPaper

Long Beach Island, New York, USA - Sometimes there’s traffic on the GSP,
but I love this island so its worth it to me.

Speed limit here’s only 35,
that’s why you gotta find a bike to ride

So many people you can meet,
and plenty of

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NINE YEARS EARLIER: Minister Winston "Gypsy" Peters upsets Pan Fraternity

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When will PAN TRINBAGO stop BEGGING THE PNM FOR MONEY?

How much more MONEY do PAN PEOPLE want THE PNM to give to PAN TRINBAGO to be squandered?

THIS CURRENT PRESIDENT made ALL KINDA AH PRE-ELECTION PROMISES about FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE in PAN TRINBAGO -- and then after she win is strictly BEG THE PNM FOR

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Pan Trinbago Vs The PNM

B U D G E T - The most repetitive word on the lips of this sitting executive of Pan Trinbago. 

Why is this sitting executive of Pan Trinbago continually bullying the government of the day and painting a flawed picture of the responsible minister in t

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Fed up of disrespect

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Ramsey-Moore: Pan fraternity treated unfairly

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago President Beverly Ramsey-Moore has warned the public that the organisation, the local governing body for the steelpan, will not be ins

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I have to interrupt this program to give THIS FORUM a little update on AMERICAN POLITICS: TRUMP FINALLY TRIPS ... but BEVERLEY keeps moving at FULL SPEED!!!

Now TRUMP had a strategy which said: Admit to NOTHING and REVEAL NOTHING. And it was working REAL GOOD until this WHISTLEBLOWER came out of nowhere. But when the UKRAINE MARK BUS, Mitch McConnell (The Republican Head of the SENATE) panicked and calle

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FIVE STRAIGHT MONTHS OF PANORAMA FEVER ... but we have to put ah HORSE in the PAN SYNTHESIZER RACE ...

PAN TRINBAGO get ah little taste (35,000 TT) of the EXPAT MONEY this year with a PAY PER VIEW by WACK. So they going all in for PANORAMA 2020 with PAY PER VIEW looking to bring in a windfall. I could stand by THE PLAN but they need to deliver a QUALI

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Inbox Jukebox Track of the Day: A Steel-Drum-Heavy Cover of Kraftwerk's "Tanzmusik" by Ebony Steel Band

by Dave Segal - the Stranger

Ebony Steel Band, "Tanzmusik (Jump Up)" (OM Swagger)
Now in their 50th year, London-based Ebony Steel Band accepted Record Collector Magazine editor Ian Shirley's challenge to cover several Kraftwerk tracks with their a

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The Seven Ages of Patience complete with steelband = Kiln Theatre, London

The Seven Ages of Patience, directed by Katie Posner, takes us through various stages in the life of  Patience, a midwife determined to contribute to the happiness of her neighbours, be it through medical aid before the NHS kicked in, or orchestrati

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Tell your story. Please. ONE VIDEO IS NOT ENOUGH. One raindrop is not a thunderstorm. One note is not a Panorama song.

Opinion:  by Markus Garceran

New York, USA - “It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”

- FDR

I remember three years ago, Jahlani and I launched a project...movemen

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Carnival 2020 Launch - Pan Trinbago

Carnival 2020 Launch - Pan Trinbago

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[CAKE WHISTLEBLOWER IN T&T]: Ministry buys $4,000 cake to celebrate CARIFESTA [Ah feel is BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE who blow that WHISTLE on THE DOLLY for not letting PAN in the SUPER CONCERT!!!]

Guardian September 28, 2019

"Ques­tions are now be­ing raised about the Min­istry of Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment, Cul­ture and the Arts' (MCD­CA) de­ci­sion to fork out $4,000 on a cake while min­istry work­ers claim they had been fac­ing prob­lems i

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Meet Champion Arranger & Performing Artist, Cordel Byam - UpClose!

Grenada, W.I. - He is a first-time national champion steelband Panorama arranger; youthful, yet at the age of thirty-one a “young” veteran in his craft of musicianship, with a history of more than twenty years of involvement with the steelband art

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