Steelpan, music for youths

Trinidad Newsday - Narissa Fraser

Workshop to revive interest in national instrument—page 21

Students of Naparima College and Naparima Girls' High School perform together as Naparima Combined Steel Orchestra to win the secondary schools category of

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Toronto Caribbean Carnival events that you can't miss

August 2

Pan Alive: Indulge in the sweet sounds of the steel pan at the Pan Alive steel pan competition. Did you know that the steel pan is the only acoustic instrument invented in the 20th century? Trinidad is its original home, but the instrument

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ALL THE PAN FORUMS DEAD!!! NOBODY EH TALKING ABOUT NUTTEN -- well, except for HOW THINGS WAS LONG TIME ...

All the HIGH EXPECTATIONS from BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE and her failure to deliver end up KILLING THE PAN DISCUSSIONS.

But ah TELLING ALLYUH -- dem WHITE AMERICANS moving at HIGH SPEED to DOMINATE GLOBAL PAN. While TRINIS still living in a DREAM WORLD t

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Ping Pong Solos And Doubles

The Gleaner 

This leads to the main reason many of us switched from calling the game ‘ping pong’ and used ‘table tennis’ instead. The fact is that we had another ‘ping pong’ that by the time I was born in 1945 was starting to develop into an art for

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Petoskey Steel Drum Band performs to a massive crowd at Concerts on the Lawn series

Concerts on the Lawn series - Grand Traverse Pavilions - Traverse City, Michigan -  Sponsored by Grand Traverse Pavilions

Just a ridiculously massive crowd in TC tonight to hear the PSDB. Estimate was 6,000+! Thank you everyone for coming out! And

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The Anatomy of Panorama 2019 - Quick Chart Antigua & Barbuda National Panorama Steelband Music Competition

St. John’s, Antigua & Barbuda, W.I. - Saturday August 3, 2019 is the date for the annual Antigua & Barbuda National Panorama in the country’s capital of St. John’s.  This year, no doubt the quest will be on in earnest to break last year’s “tie” for t

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Call for pan in preschools

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Trinidad & Tobago Chinese Steel Ensemble Wows Audiences in Toronto

Toronto, Canada - The Trinidad & Tobago Chinese Steel Ensemble (TTCSE) took Toronto by storm during their recently-concluded performances a couple of weeks ago.

....This small ethnic group, captained by Susie Young, received rave reviews from all t

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Well, LOOK!!! BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE going and do something productive -- even though she stole my idea!!!

She is going to build a DATABASE with all STEELBAND MEMBERS!!!!

HOORAY!!! HOORAY!!!

Member Info Data

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Boogsie the musical genius

Nation News - DONNA SEALY

He is called the Mozart of the steel pan, a legend, and a genius. And while all those things are true, the composer, arranger and teacher doesn’t brag.

He is humble and acknowledges that his talent was a gift from God.

A

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I cannot CRITICIZE Beverley Ramsey-Moore anymore on THIS FORUM after reading about the LEGAL ACTION taken by the LOSING TT SOCCER COACH ...

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'Murder' -- by Michael L Joseph (former PRO of Pan Trinbago)

Trinbagonians have become so conceited and deceptive that they are now victims of their own conceit and are wondering why the country is in such a despicable state, where no one is safe with the run away crime rate, while politicians continue making

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But how could GREGORY LINDSAY be SO SILENT while the PAN TRINBAGO EXECUTIVE sleeps until PANORAMA?

When KEITH DIAZ was in power, GREGORY LINDSAY  make all kinda noise. Now they put ah WOMAN AS BOSS and she throw way she manifesto once she win office and all she care about is PANORAMA IN TOBAGO.

Not ah ting eh happening for PAN and GREGORY LINDSAY

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Black Rock honours past, celebrates future

Newsday - Kinnesha George

Dancers begin a folk performance at the Black Rock Sea Festival event at Courland Heritage Park.

...During her research, she noted the cultural roots of the steelpan can be traced back to the West African slaves who came to

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I understand BEVERLEY RAMSEY MOORE'S perspective on the TOBAGO PANORAMA TING -- but it is PERSONAL and not in THE BEST INTEREST OF PAN!!!

First of all, it is fraught with BIAS!!!

You CANNOT have a PANORAMA FINALS IN TOBAGO with a SON OF THE SOIL arranging at the HEIGHT OF HIS CAREER and NOT GIVE HIM THE WIN!!! So before the PANORAMA even start -- DUVONE DONE WIN ALREADY!!!

Where is the

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Poetry by Cordell "Spongy" Barbour

Poetry by Cordell Barbour (written in 1996)

 

BLIND TRUST

Our motto as a nation

Based on compassion

Is together we aspire and achieve,

But scoping the past

And present corruption

Poor workers are the ones they deceive.

 

It seems like God reigns in H

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Spice Isle Pan Rockers to perform in NY

SpiceIslander.com

Grenadian talent on showcase in New York

New York, USA - A group of veteran Grenadian panists will showcase their talent later this month at a Grenada event in Brooklyn, New York.

It’s a dinner, dance and awards’ ceremony that will

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The Edmonds Center for the Arts is offering “Intergenerational Steel Drum Camp with The Seattle Steel Pan Project and Silver Kite Community Arts”

Edmonds News

Intergenerational steel drum camp.
(Photo courtesy Edmonds Center for the Arts)

Edmonds Kind of Play: The value of intergenerational activities

...Next week, the Edmonds Center for the Arts is offering “Intergenerational Steel Drum Cam

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Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra - ... jazz and steel pan bands to music theory, composition, and international tours, providing quality musical experiences for a wide range of skill levels.

The Journal of Music

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A Review of 2019 Panyard Lime with Pan-Ossia Steel Orchestra & Melody Warriors by Robert Cadet, Jr.

St. John's, Grenada, W.I. - The panyard lime is an event put on by each steel band in Grenada to raise funds and also to let the public get to know the songs the bands are playing [for Panorama]. Pan-Ossia and Melody Warriors were the first two bands

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