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Have you every faced backlash from other music teachers telling you or students that the steel pan is not a real instrument. How did you deal with it?

This thread was initiated in the Steel Band Directors group on facebook.

"Have you every faced backlash from other music teachers telling you or students that the steel pan is not a real instrument. How did you deal with it?"

While there were numerou

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Nigerian Navy band partners MUSON, others for improved musicals

The Nation

Nigeria - Plans are underway for the Nigerian Navy (NN) Directorate of Music to partner foreign counterparts, the Music Society of Nigeria (MUSON) centre, and key universities to upscale its band performances. The Chief of the Naval Staf

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Well BEVERLEY have all her lackeys out there now BEGGING ROWLEY FOR A MINISTRY OF PAN thinking that they will put her in charge ... but ONE REASONABLE FELLAH just expose them

Christobal Copeland said: ..isn't that the same Government that pumped millions into Pantrinbago over yrs ..also gave them money and LAND to put up a Headquarters..now folks are dissing that same Government..?... Maybe the Government should hold bac

Started by Claude Gonzales in Steelband Music

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DIXIELAND PANORAMA 1969 with a CURTIS PIERRE arrangement of LORD KITCHENER'S "THE BULL"

Started by Claude Gonzales in Steelband Music

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Liz Mannette puts pan on the (Google) map

Trinidad and Tobago Guardian

Liz Mannette Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Elizabeth “Liz” Mannette was tired of getting lost. Setting out to visit a new panyard was always a wearisome adventure because she would often have to turn back when she could not readily find t

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PAN PIONEERS CRYING while others DYING waiting for PAN PROGRESS -- but "I DON'T WANT TO WAIT IN VAIN" FOR PAN LOVE while BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE subverts PAN PROGRESS ...

Now everybody know by now that I am a HARDCORE TRINI SOCA MAN (who did not come to LA TRINITY on NO BOAT) -- and I EH IN THE REGGAE THING. But on the other hand, since our MUSICAL GENIUSES are INCAPABLE of MAKING MUSIC for GLOBAL MARKETS -- ah have

Started by Claude Gonzales in Steelband Music

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Pan Trinbago - Tentative Calendar of Events Carnival /Panorama 2020

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THE PIONEERS (Inventors, Players, Expats) did all the ground work and got PAN where it is today; what is LACKING NOW is ADMINISTRATION ...

NINE YEARS OF KEITH DIAZ, followed by THREE YEARS of BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE is GUARANTEED FAILURE until 2021!!!

PAN LOVERS the WORLD OVER (especially in TRINIDAD) HAVE to demand more from our PAN ADMINISTRATORS.

The PAN PRODUCT is being DEVELOPED and

Started by Claude Gonzales in Steelband Music

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Funeral arrangements for Pan pioneer Curtis Pierre

From Giselle Pierre

Funeral service for the late Curtis Pierre takes place at St. Theresa’s R.C. Church, Woodbrook on Friday 13th September, 2019 at 9:00am, followed by private cremation. Funeral entrusted to C&B.

For those who can attend prayers we

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DIXIELAND: AGNUS DEI

Trinidad Guardian

"The T&T National Steelband Music Festival was started in 1952 as a category in the National Music Festival hosted by the T&T Music Association ... A defining year in the Festival's history came in 1959.

Started by Claude Gonzales in Steelband Music

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Meet Curtis Pierre of Dixieland Steel Orchestra: An Original Trinidad Pan Story - UpClose!

An exclusive Von Martin interview with Mr. Curtis Pierre of Dixieland Steel Orchestra, one of the first 'college boy' steel orchestras in Trinidad and Tobago. Hear in his own words, Curtis Pierre's story, in Martin's interview.

more

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Khuent Rose - Live Lessons In Pan -- "Iron man" by Lord Kitchener.

"Iron man" by Lord Kitchener.

1. The tessitura of the Steel orchestra.

2. Why pans have their names.

3. Advice on strumming and player motivation.

*please correct me if I have misspoken of the historical or scientific points*

my opinions are unreun

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When the NY Panorama audio engineer turns all the steelbands' music into noise and the host still says she is hearing sweet pan music...

Everyone is in agreement that sound at the 2019 NY Panorama was terrible. That's nothing new. It's always awful. The sound coming through the streaming broadcast was awful too. It doesn't sound like any NY steelband I have ever heard. Yet the broadc

Started by Bugs in Steelband Music

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Look PAN ON D AVENUE done advertising their 2020 PARADE OF STEELBANDS already while PAN TRINBAGO is yet to put on ONE PARADE or CONCERT since they took OFFICE ...

Started by Claude Gonzales in Steelband Music

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Pan News -- CASYM will be starting back steelpan classes

Pan News -- CASYM will be starting back their steelpan classes. Please use this link to register https://forms.gle/5jwRZwopVbPHvsw68
#casym #casymfam #casymsteelorchestra #ilovepan #steelpanclasses #panislifelifeispan #nypan #panfamily #steelpan #ste

Started by Pan Times in Education - Pan in School

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Ah watch so much YANKEE FOOTBALL yesterday that I cannot think straight this morning so I have to copy and paste other people views on PANORAMA under BEVERLEY ...

"The powers-that-be are so hell bent on keeping the status quo that they have hoodwinked all the other greedy bands, panists, what have you, to accept the rubbish of a November Single Pan competition, a half-December-half-January Small Band competit

Started by Claude Gonzales in Panorama

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"Dare we hope that pan administration will really move towards some degree of internal reform?" Mr. Martin Daly is looking on the bright side. And I hope that RUSSELL PROVIDENCE is doing likewise!!!

That was an interesting article, you all should go down and read it.

But my problem remains singular: WHERE IS THE MUSIC?

Plenty MUSIC EDUCATION has been acquired by many of our PLAYERS (in and out of TRINIDAD), so there is no SHORTAGE of HIGHLY MUSI

Started by Claude Gonzales in Steelband Music

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Not much talk FROM BEVERLEY about the PROGRESS of the TOBAGO PANORAMA -- and she is a woman who like to run to NEWSDAY to boast about her TRIUMPHS

So I am suspecting that she might be UNDER PRESSURE in trying to deliver this PROMISE to TOBAGO. But I always give BEVERLEY good advice. So once again I will encourage her to CALL A PRESS CONFERENCE and give a STATE OF THE PAN WORLD report after one

Started by Claude Gonzales in Steelband Music

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TOBAGO PANORAMA OFF? (The Straw That Broke Pan Trinbago's Silence)

Informed sources are whispering in closed social circles that the 2020 Medium band Panorama Finals in Tobago may have already been cancelled because of the inability of the main stakeholder to present any ballpark zero based budget as a pre requisite

Started by Russell Providence in Uncategorized

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Why would BEVERLEY and the TRIVIAL TROOP choose to fight a war with DOCTOR DOLLY when they have to go BEG HER FOR MONEY??

Started by Claude Gonzales in Steelband Music

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Have you every faced backlash from other music teachers telling you or students that the steel pan is not a real instrument. How did you deal with it?

Nigerian Navy band partners MUSON, others for improved musicals

Well BEVERLEY have all her lackeys out there now BEGGING ROWLEY FOR A MINISTRY OF PAN thinking that they will put her in charge ... but ONE REASONABLE FELLAH just expose them

DIXIELAND PANORAMA 1969 with a CURTIS PIERRE arrangement of LORD KITCHENER'S "THE BULL"

Liz Mannette puts pan on the (Google) map

PAN PIONEERS CRYING while others DYING waiting for PAN PROGRESS -- but "I DON'T WANT TO WAIT IN VAIN" FOR PAN LOVE while BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE subverts PAN PROGRESS ...

Pan Trinbago - Tentative Calendar of Events Carnival /Panorama 2020

THE PIONEERS (Inventors, Players, Expats) did all the ground work and got PAN where it is today; what is LACKING NOW is ADMINISTRATION ...

Funeral arrangements for Pan pioneer Curtis Pierre

DIXIELAND: AGNUS DEI

Meet Curtis Pierre of Dixieland Steel Orchestra: An Original Trinidad Pan Story - UpClose!

Khuent Rose - Live Lessons In Pan -- "Iron man" by Lord Kitchener.

When the NY Panorama audio engineer turns all the steelbands' music into noise and the host still says she is hearing sweet pan music...

Look PAN ON D AVENUE done advertising their 2020 PARADE OF STEELBANDS already while PAN TRINBAGO is yet to put on ONE PARADE or CONCERT since they took OFFICE ...

Pan News -- CASYM will be starting back steelpan classes

Ah watch so much YANKEE FOOTBALL yesterday that I cannot think straight this morning so I have to copy and paste other people views on PANORAMA under BEVERLEY ...

"Dare we hope that pan administration will really move towards some degree of internal reform?" Mr. Martin Daly is looking on the bright side. And I hope that RUSSELL PROVIDENCE is doing likewise!!!

Not much talk FROM BEVERLEY about the PROGRESS of the TOBAGO PANORAMA -- and she is a woman who like to run to NEWSDAY to boast about her TRIUMPHS

TOBAGO PANORAMA OFF? (The Straw That Broke Pan Trinbago's Silence)

Why would BEVERLEY and the TRIVIAL TROOP choose to fight a war with DOCTOR DOLLY when they have to go BEG HER FOR MONEY??

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