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TT engineer to pay US$4m to Prince’s estate [This is the engineer who should be working on dem DIGITAL PAN TONES ah was talking about]

Newsday April 10th, 2019

A Grammy-winning mixing and recording engineer has been ordered to pay the late musician Prince’s estate US$4 million for releasing an unauthorised EP of Prince songs.

TT-born Ian Boxill was also ordered, said an April 9 BBC

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Two of the greats in one video. Natasha Joseph and Jimi Phillips

Two of the greats in one video. Natasha Joseph and Jimi Phillips

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Kendall Williams named as new arranger for Pan Elders

Kendall Williams will be the 2020 Panorama arranger for the defending Medium Band champions Pan Elders Steel Orchestra.

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Revisited - Meet Kendall Williams, Arranger, Composer UpClose!

2018 Skiffle Steel Orchestra 

Global -  This young man is serious, driven, witty and focused. Kendall Williams’ journey with the steelpan instrument began at the age of four as he mimicked the steelpan performances of his parents. He is that singula

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IAN FRANKLIN: Since you are the RECOGNIZED AUTHORITY on PAN HISTORY, I am inviting you to come on THIS FORUM and set the record straight!!!

Ian: We need to clear up a a very simple issue!!!

In what year was the PAN "invented"?

Or put another way: In what year did a TENOR PAN made from a 55-gallon drum EXPOSE ITSELF to the TRINIDAD PUBLIC?

Even though we are all on DIFFERENT FORUMS -- is

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DEFENSE FORCE enters the DUVONE STEWART medium band arranger SWEEPSTAKES ..

Everybody want DUVONE STEWART to arrange for them now. He is like the KEVIN DURANT of PAN.

So DEFENSE FORCE decide that they want to move up from SMALL to MEDIUM and they want DUVONE STEWART to ARRANGE for them in the MEDIUM CATEGORY -- for an AUTOMA

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In less than SIX MONTHS, PAN TRINBAGO has had over 150 meetings -- but ZERO ANNOUNCEMENTS to the PAN PUBLIC

I am still waiting to see the NUMBERS from the PANORAMA (ah had to give up on the FORENSIC AUDIT REPORT dey eh releasing that) and ah still waiting for a NEW PRO and the REPLACEMENT of the ERO who eh accomplishing nothing.

The LIAISON OFFICER to STEE

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Who plays the steelpan on Talking Heads' 1977 song, "Uh-oh, Love Comes to Town"?

Does anyone know the answer to this mystery?

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Pan Elders and Duvone Stewart Part Ways

From Pan Elders

"Good Morning... As the saying goes..."nothing lasts forever". With that said, the Executive committee wishes to formally announce the resignation of Mr. Duvone Stewart as arranger for Pan Elders Steel Orchestra. We understand that wh

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BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE is a WICKED and HEARTLESS POLITICIAN making MINCE MEAT out of the DUMB PAN PLAYERS

Allyuh living in TRINIDAD. So allyuh should really go dig up the facts on how ruthless BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE was in the last election and how she MANIPULATED BOOGSIE to destroy every chance that KERON VALENTINE had ... employing MALICIOUS GOSSIP.

Now

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PAN TALES from the WEST COAST

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Mighty Sparrow: He inspired Bob Marley’s political awakening

According to the Trinidadian writer and broadcaster Isaac Fergusson, “Even politicians were afraid of Sparrow and what he would reveal about them in a song. Until he came along, most calypsonians were semi-professional. People paid them with rum and

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Pan Elders part ways with Duvone [New arranger to be announced today]

Newsday April 8, 2019

AFTER a successful seven-year partnership in which Duvone Stewart brought victory after victory to Pan Elders steel orchestra, the arranger and the band have parted ways.

The southern pan fraternity reacted with surprise yesterd

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Meet Jenica Henry - New York, USA

Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

New York, USA - “Set Goals, Stay Focused and don’t be afraid to fail (pressure can either bust pipes or make diamonds….and you, darling, are diamond material). Also don’t get caught up in changing who y

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The RUMOUR MILL has it to say that DUVONE STEWART resigned from PAN ELDERS to take his talents to KATZENJAMMERS in TOBAGO

That is a GOOD STORY for PAN and PANORAMA!!!

Ah wish that the INTERNATIONAL PAN COMMUNITY would show more ACTIVISM and find ways to participate in the LOCAL PROCESS.

For example: What if 200 EXPATS put up $100 (USD) each and we fund PAN ELDERS to the

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Tobago Jazz uproar over Glasgow contract [Tobagonians REAL UPSET]

Newsday April 6, 2019

Kinnesha George

On Friday, chairman of Tobago Entrepreneurs Kristal Manswell said the request by the island’s private sector was a call for transparency.

“This is not piggy bank money, $500,000 cannot be wasted nor disappear wit

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Big BACCHANAL with the TOBAGO JAZZ FESTIVAL: Dey pay Randy Glasgow Promotions $500,000 to promote TOBAGO JAZZ but we still eh know how much Beverley pay all dem advertising people to PROMOTE PANORAMA

THE Tobago Festivals Commission bypass a tendering process and pay Randy Glasgow Promotions $550,000 to market Tobago Jazz Experience 2019. And they give him an advance payment of $110,000.

That turn into a BIG BACCHANAL!!!

But the first thing that B

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Steel Drums - "Accompong"

Jamaican-born pianist, Monty Alexander, performing his original composition "Accompong" with Othello Molineaux and Len "Boogsie" Sharpe on steel drums, Marshall Wood, on bass, Marvin "Smitty" Smith on drums Robert Thomas, Jr., hand drums...

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Meet Dianne Ariel Whiteman - Trinidad & Tobago

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Steelband woes in the Spice Isle

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