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Duvone’s A-game - Arranger seeks repeat victories for Renegades, Pan Elders

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - To the uninformed, Duvone Stewart can seem boastful.

Get to know him, though, and you’ll realise his apparent cockiness is really an affirmation of the greatness, he believes, he was destined t

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Well Sharmain Baboolal flowcharted the PANTRINBAGO MEETING today; so ah waiting to see how things match up!!!

"When Pan Trinbago hosts an Extra Ordinary meeting on Sunday to discuss plans for the 2019 Panorama season- as much as the new executive may be better prepared because they are challenged to be so or die a painful death, it will be the same old.

Beca

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Ready for Panorama 2019 - What the bands are saying...

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Phase II Pan Groove

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Ah picking LIAM TEAGUE and MARCUS ASH to come in the TOP THREE this year -- ah feel this year with RAG STORM they will be COMING STRONG

Silver Stars under LIAM TEAGUE: 2014 (7th); 2015 (6th); 2016 (7th); 2017 (6th); 2018 (5th) ...

Ah feel that they could EXCEL with THIS SONG!!!

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Ah tell BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE from EARLY that she needed to focus on the MARKETING but she was too busy glorifying herself to consider the advice

Instead, she squeeze THE PRO out of the organization and she hire Marie Toby to sit at her right hand and PRETEND to be the Liaison Officer for all STEELBANDS.

Now, how yuh go live in TOBAGO and be the LIAISON OFFICER in Trinidad for STEELBANDS? Espe

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Well it look as if all the CORRUPTION and BAND HOPPING in Pan Trinbago and the Panorama come home to roost. People cussing Steelband Man all over Trinidad

Starting with Beverley calling the PAN PLAYERS hustlers. And then the 60 million taxpayer dollars that disappear. And how GYPSY and BEVERLEY say no more PAY for the PAN PLAYERS and now Petrotrin come and cut out about 23 steelbands from the dependenc

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Giant of the Titans -- Pan's past, present and future share their thought on Jit Samaroo with WST

“Jit Samaroo was the consummate musician. He created a lasting body of wonderful music for the steel orchestra but his humility, his quiet strength, his willingness to share his knowledge and wealth of experience, left a blueprint for musical life...

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Calypso & De Facts of Life

For the Calypso lovers Old School playlist...

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BLUEBOY rethread creating a STORM -- RAG STORM at PANORAMA

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No support for cut in pan prize money

Trinidad Newsday

SAN Fernando Mayor Junia Regrello does not support the suggestion by captain of San City Steel Orchestra Aquil Arrindell to cut Panorama prize money so players could receive a stipend.

Regrello said it was he, as an alderman at the

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Like BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE BLIGHT PAN TRINBAGO or WHAT?

Since she take over: The organization get EVICTED; and then ALL PAN PLAYERS lose their REMITTANCES for 2018 and 2019 and 2020; and, today, 23 STEELBANDS lost their SPONSORSHIP/ASSISTANCE from PETROTRIN; BANDITS tiefing TENOR PANS; SWINE FLU ALERT in

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IAN FRANKLIN trying to wake PAN PLAYERS UP -- but like dey in TOO DEEP A SLUMBER

Ian Franklin‎

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"NO SUPPORT FOR CUT IN PAN PRIZE MONEY" -- South Man against South Man; Beverley have everybody fighting against everybody!!!

Newsday January 11, 2019 Yvonne Webb

SAN Fernando Mayor Junia Regrello does not support the suggestion by captain of San City Steel Orchestra Aquil Arrindell to cut Panorama prize money so players could receive a stipend.

He said to get from prelimin

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Laborie Hosts International Music Workshop

Laborie News

Andy Narell directs workshop participants

Professional and amateur musicians as well as music students from the USA, Australia and France have converged on Laborie for the third edition of the annual Laborie Steel Pan and Brasilian Percu

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Players and Tuners are People Too

by Sharmain Baboolal

Provided by, and republished with, the expressed permission of: the Author

Chronicles of a Panorama

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Acclaimed tuner, master craftsman, “Birch” Kelman, will be out for the carnival season. He’s recoverin

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What the bands are playing for Panorama 2019 - Trinidad & Tobago National Steelband Panorama Competition

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Large Steel Orchestras

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birdsong Steel Orchestra

Tune of Choice - “Hookin Meh” - Arranger:  Robert Greenidge

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Buccooneers Steel Orchestra

Tune of Choice - “Madness” - Arranger:  Seion Gomez

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Desperadoes Steel Orchestra

Tune of Choice - “Iron Love

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Meet Aquil Arrindell Musician, Educator & Pan Activist - UpClose!

On separating himself from the former executive board of Pan Trinbago  "..if there was a fight between the players and the executive then as an executive member I would be standing on the wrong side. I am a player before anything else. It was one of

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Cut pan prize money to pay players -- Steelband leader to Ramsey-Moore

CAPTAIN of San City Steel Orchestra Aquil Arrindell has written to Pan Trinbago president Beverly Ramsey-Moore suggesting that she cut the Panorama prize money for 2019 so players could be paid a stipend.

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odw: Carnival time again with Farmer Nappy HOOKIN MEH

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Downbeat Magazine discovers Jonathan Scales

Jonathan Scales Extends Steel Pan Territory

INTERVIEW, NEWS, FROM THE MAGAZINE, JONATHAN SCALES
By Geoffrey Himes   I  Jan. 9, 2019

Béla Fleck knows a thing or two about establishing an identity in the jazz world while playing an unusual instrument.

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