Newsday January 12, 2019
Joan Rampersad
We are confident of victory in 2019 -- says BOOGSIE!!!
Trinidad Newsday
I read the words of recently elected Pan Trinbago president Beverly Ramsey-Moore promising to make our pan industry viable: “...We will ensure that that drum-making factory...will bring in millions, upon millions, upon millions so th
63 Steelbands for National Panorama Single Pan Prelims. Pan Trinbago’s National Panorama Single Pan Preliminaries will run off in all Regions over an eight (8) day period with a total of sixty three (63) registered bands. Bands will be judged at the
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FIVE-time medium band champion Pan Elders’ quest to successfully defend its title for 2019 is in jeopardy.
Bandleader Hollister Smith told Sunday Newsday that as of yesterday he did not even have 40 players in his band, “because eve
Read more…An Interview with Dalton Narine
I believe anyone who did not join in the struggle has no moral authority to question someone who did. (Michael Marcano)
Michael Marcano joined the CIP (Concerned Individual for Pan) out of a concern for the declining
Read more…Newsday January 18th, 2019
Gary Cardinez
THE most popular song for 2019 Carnival Hookin Meh by Darryl Farmer Nappy Henry has become a sort of “test piece” for Conventional Large bands in Panorama.
Five bands, led by defending champions BPTT Renegades
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A founding member of San City, Mr Anthony De Caires, in colabration with San City Steel Symphony, successfully hosted, on the 1stof January, his 46thKwanza/toy distribution. Mr. De Caires single-handedly started on the 1st of January, 1973 sharing
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Jeremy in a loving moment with his mother Charmay Granado. PHOTO BY ANSEL JEBODH
WATCH out Len “Boogsie” Sharpe! Eleven-year-old Jeremy Granado has set his sights on being the next master arranger of steelpan music. He wan
Read more…Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pennsylvania, USA - On the heels of a successful holiday party last month, Barrels to Beethoven — an organization co-founded by Leigh Solomon Pugliano and her husband, David Pugliano, that focuses on the preservation, educatio
His father, small as he was, held him by his neck and threatened him the day he declared that he wanted to arrange music too. Jit Samaroo did not give Amrit an easy passage into his world. He made him earn it because he knew it was no easy road. Nev
Read more…http://www.panonthenet.com/tnt/2019/rules.htm
Gypsy said that he went to CARNIVALS all over the WORLD -- so that makes him SKILLED in PRODUCING a CARNIVAL PRODUCT.
And FAY ANN sing in some SOCA MONARCHS -- so that makes her SKILLED in PRODUCING a SOCA MONARCH PRODUCT.
But I say: If you have the
Read more…The topic of paying to view Panorama live, overseas via internet or cable, was covered in previous years. I think the time has come to re-open the discussion. Monies generated could help paying the bands and panmen. People pay through their nose to w
Read more…It seems a to me that when it comes to getting a sponsor for your band it is who you know rather than what the band can do for the sponsor.
A band like Pan elders cant secure a sponsors interest after winning panorama so much times, and a band that
Read more…Pan Trinbago Inc. T.C. will launch this year’s Panorama competitions on Saturday January 19, 2019, at bp Renegades Pan Theatre, Charlotte Street, Port of Spain, from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm.
This year’s competition is in “Tribute to Our Cultural Icons”
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