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Reboot -- Meet Bowie Sonnie Bowei of Nigeria -- Manufacturer, Pioneer, Panist, Arranger, Educator and Pan Ambassador - UpClose!

On what keeps his passion for the instrument going - Bowie Sonnie Bowei says:

“At first, it was the uniqueness of the instrument and the positive reactions on the faces of people who listen to pan for the first time. Now, it is the joy that it bring

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I am TOTALLY DEPRESSED!!! EXPATS all over the world are out here trying to GLOBALIZE PAN and STATE-APPOINTED DIPLOMATS went to AFRICA and subverted GLOBAL PAN PROGRESS -- FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE!!!

I am calling on BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE to hold a PRESS CONFERENCE and DIFFUSE this BOMBSHELL REPORT in her capacity as PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD GOVERNING BODY OF PAN!!!

All the WORK that all the THOUSANDS OF EXPATS have done PUSHING PAN AROUND THE WORLD

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BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE shows a lack of DIPLOMATIC SKILLS in dealing with MR. Bowei; turns her back on PAN IN AFRICA!!!

"THE WORLD GOVERNING BODY OF PAN" is now being led by a short-sighted, TOBAGO-CENTRIC leader whose only concern is building her political capital in TOBAGO.

The inequity is that there are THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of EXPATS all over the WORLD fighting

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bugs: Given all the variables, would you have taken this shot at this crucial moment? And I know that NEW YORK has plenty money -- but can they afford KD?

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Happy Birthday to Robert Greenidge

When Steel Talks extends birthday greeting to champion arranger panorama arranger Robert Greenidge.

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When Steel Talks gets Honorable mention - NY Daily News - CARIBBEAT

World of pan on the web

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MAESTRO ~ MOUNTAIN DEW GANG

MAESTRO ~ MOUNTAIN DEW GANG {TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO}

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BEVERLEY: Mr. Bowei waiting quite in Africa for you to call him and set up the AFRICAN CONNECTION!!!

Every time ah read anything about PAN the authors always have to tell me about AFRICA being the ROOTS OF PAN. Now I am a TRINIDADIAN, eh. So I have a little different view on that.

But ah know that BEVERLEY and TOBAGO heavy into the AFRICA TING. So I

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Errol Zephyrine is alive & well

It's gives When Steel Talks great pleasure to announce that the reports of the passing of Errol Zephyrine were false

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Well yuh think yuh could come to OAKLAND and say yuh could PLAY BASKETBALL? Or yuh think BOOGSIE could go to CUBA and say he could play LATIN?

Or yuh think BEVERLEY could come to TRINIDAD and say she could run PAN TRINBAGO?

YUH MAD OH MEH LARD, OHHH!!!

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Medium band Panorama may go to Tobago

Newsday

Pan Trinbago president Beverly Ramsey-Moore says moves are afoot to host the medium-band category of next year's Panorama competition in her native Tobago.

Ramsey-Moore told Sunday Newsday she met recently with Tobago House of Assembly (THA)

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When are TRINIDAD PAN PLAYERS going to wake up and realize that BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE has no INTEREST in PAN TRINBAGO ... her only purpose is to lift her political profile in TOBAGO ...

PARTICK ARNOLD was a BUST!!! KEITH DIAZ embezzled SIXTY MILLION and now you have BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE using PAN TRINBAGO  as a SPRINGBOARD to NATIONAL POLITICS aimed at being an MP FOR TOBAGO.

In SIX MONTHS this is the first (and only) proposal comi

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This early PAN MUSIC was put up on THIS FORUM decades ago (a little exaggeration) but I am putting it up again ...

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Ambridge Steel Drum Band to play 30th-anniversary show

The Times --

AMBRIDGE — It has represented Ambridge in the Rose Bowl parade and warmed a crowd for Steven Spielberg in San Francisco.

The Ambridge Area High School Steel Drum Band has showcased its mood-lifting, Caribbean-seasoned music far and wide.

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Skeete speaks on resignation -- Former President of the Grenada Steel Bands Association

The New Today ---

Former President of the Grenada Steel Bands Association (GSA) Jason Skeete believes that he has grown to become a much stronger individual as a result of the treatment meted out to him during his tenure at the helm of the organisati

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MAESTRO ~ MOUNTAIN DEW GANG (IN DE MANG)

T&T Throwbacks

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Well they say that ANDY NARELL only make it in PAN because HE WHITE; maybe we should get some WHITE TRINI PAN PLAYERS and send dem GLOBAL; because I just want to see ah TRINI PAN MAN go GLOBAL so BAD

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After all these years ARGUING about PAN -- ah finally FIND AH KINDRED SPIRIT in an fellah name MICHAEL KERNAHAN! Thanks to CECIL HINKSON!!!

Well CECIL went and put up a post wondering how with all the HIGHLY EDUCATED PEOPLE in PAN they CANNOT come up with some SOLUTIONS to MOVE PAN FORWARD.

Now that is a TOPIC that I could write a 1000-page paper on. But that is not the point that I want

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A Little Tempo Japanese/Reggae/Pan

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ANDY NARELL was in NEW ORLEANS last night SHOWCASING PAN. Now everybody knows that I consider ANDY NARELL the GOD OF PAN. But at the same time I IS AH TRINI -- and I eh come on NO BOAT ...

I IS AH REAL REAL TRINI -- A FAR-RIGHT NATIONALIST TRINI!!

That means as much as I LOVE ANDY NARELL and rate him so highly, I would love to see A TRINIDADIAN representing PAN GLOBALLY -- and this is not the FIRST TIME that I have broached THIS  TOPIC

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