Sello Gomes, the first arranger of Silver Stars Steelband passed away suddenly last night in Toronto at the age of 84. Sello was a pan pioneer both in Trinidad as one of the 8 original members of Silver Stars in 1951,and in Canada in 1970 when he in
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UNSPONSORED steelbands received over $2 million from the Ministry of Community Development, Culture and the Arts last week. The bands collected their cheques at the ministry’s St Ann’s office.
In prior news reports, steelbands were s
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Zanda’s knowledge of rhythm, melody and harmony adds to the complexity of a band on the move as it primes itself for yet anoth
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Large Band Results (Semis)
Marcus Ash: I am putting you in charge of producing that report and presenting it on THIS FORUM.
It seems that you are the de facto PRO and the 20,000 readers on WHEN STEEL TALKS are very curious to know how the NORTH PARK mixed in with this NEW PAN
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Semi Finals Results for Medium Conventional Steel Orchestras
WHAT IS THIS?: A vendor points to a space where a sink is supposed to be inside a booth at the Queen’s Park Savannah yesterday. Vendors are facing a myriad of problems with the booths provided to them by the NCC. PHOTO BY RYAN HAMILTON-DAVIS
WHILE t
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....The tragedy is that pan, the soul of Carnival, continues to disappear from our mas. It is being reduced to bastard-sister status in Carnival. After the Panorama competition, only a few bands appear on the streets on Jouvert mornin
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I am expecting SKIFFLE to make a BIG MOVE tomorrow but I think that they made a psychologically irrevocable error when they decided to SKATE IN to the SEMIS.
Ah wait ah whole year for these FELLAHS to give DUVONE ah good run for the 1st place money a
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A message from -- Mia Gormandy-Bejamin -- I am happy to announce that I will be commentating for t
Read more…When are they going to wake up and realize that they have a BIG GLOBAL FAN BASE that could be integrated into the whole effort of GLOBALIZING the TRINIDAD PAN MUSIC and bringing in the FOREIGN EXCHANGE that they SO LOVE to talk about.
Even if it was
Read more…I understand that two of the judges are from Tobago. Also how is it possible for a band to get a lower score in the semi finals based on the critique each band gets in the prelims.This is the talk in the NY pan circles.
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NCC chairman Winston “Gypsy” Peters
National Carnival Commission (NCC) Winston “Gypsy” Peters made a quick run for the exit yesterday when confronted by irate regional Carnival representatives, upset by the significantly less subv
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