Hi everyone. I wanted to share a new piece I had premiered that features a pan ensemble. Players include lead, double seconds, triple cellos, and six bass. Score and link are listed below, I hope you guys enjoy it! Please let me know your thoughts.
Read more…This is a GREAT CALYPSO!!! Please check out GEORGE VICTORY on GUITAR!!! The introductory lines have always MESMERIZED me; doesn't matter how many times I listen to this CALYPSO -- the opening lines are NOTHING SHORT of DRAMATIC.
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On the case of professionalism with regards to audio video products both live and recorded, Pan Trinbago has failed miserably. The products baring Pan Trinbago's logo are not up to world standards. Please don't be fooled by those who would tell you
Read more…Ah feel like once a week I will have to update this posting for the NEXT NINE YEARS!!!
So I will just refer back to this posting as the years go by.
Ah tell allyuh it go be ah DRAIN on the PAN TRINBAGO BUDGET and ah tell allyuh this and ah tell allyu
Read more…This NEW COMPANY should be run by: LAWFORD DUPRES, ROBERT AMAR, DENISE HERNANDEZ, MARCUS ASH and AQUIL ARRINDELL.
That is if PEOPLE really want PAN PROGRESS.
Read more…bugs come on this forum yesterday and lay down this DEMAND for Beverley that she STEP UP the PAN TRINBAGO game when it comes to the PRODUCTION of the PANORAMA 2019 VIDEO. For all the little snipes I does be taking at Beverley, bugs making that reques
Read more…People spend the last 6 years fighting down crooked FORTEAU and SHEPPARD and DIAZ and JOSEPH and now end up right where we started with KEITH DIAZ running things again -- only this time without an official title.
I was fighting and hoping for PAN PRO
Read more…Since Beverley was NOT THE PNM CANDIDATE OF CHOICE it is hard to figure out if ROWLEY and DOLLY will bail out BEVERLEY. But the most sensible thing that PAN TRINBAGO could do is to DISSOLVE THE CORPORATION and just vacate the PREMISES.
They could ru
Read more…All the BIG TALK about PANYARDS being CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE and STEELBAND FACTORY and Rebuilding and uprooting the culture of corruption, mismanagement, wastage, misappropriation and laziness and starting to stand on pillars of Honesty, Integrity, O
Read more…I think that you HAVE DEVELOPED really well on THIS FORUM. And you have a STYLE OF EXPRESSION that encourages BROAD APPEAL. So, put in the EXTRA EFFORT and help to keep the DISCUSSION GOING.
At this point you must be wondering why I am trying to PASS
Read more…This CALYPSO has transcended the "normal calypso" that you kind of listen to and like a little bit, for me. Because I had a HIGH LEVEL JAZZ MAN friend from SAN FRANCISCO and he had gone down to Curaçao and when he came back he told me that he heard a
Read more…Ah sure allyuh know that it almost had ah BIG FIGHT at the HANDING OVER CEREMONY. And BEVERLEY jump up and claim that is SHE who part the fight -- but that is not true. She just out there looking for attention at every turn instead of working on all
Read more…I say that if AQUIL ARRINDELL want to go and JOIN BEVERLEY -- let him STAND IN LINE and wait for A HANDOUT FROM THE QUEEN OF PAN TRINBAGO!!!
But I am for PAN PROGRESS!!! Check my postings over the years!!! I am FOR PAN PROGRESS!!!
And I did not fight
Read more…Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
UPDATE:
Composer, music arranger and calypsonian Winston Scarborough, better known as The Original De Fosto Himself, died between 9 pm on Thursday and 8 am yesterday at his Almond Court home in Morvant.
He turned 64 in Sep
Read more…When Steel Talks extends our sincere condolences to the family and friends of Winston Scarborough - De Original DeFosto Himself on his passing.
WST Special
No Stranger, This Calypsoman Shadow
We were writers on the prowl.
It was 1971 when Errol Pilgrim and I walked into Port Services to catch the Mighty Shadow’s first songs at a public venue.
Amid the sparseness, the stage was as dark as the
Read more…The New Today Newspaper
Grenada, W.I. - Police have been approached to conduct a criminal investigation into alleged fraud by an executive member of the embattled Grenada Steelband Association (GSA).
A well-placed source told THE NEW TODAY newspape
Read more…I think that this is one of the MOST SIGNIFICANT CALYPSOS of the MODERN ERA. I looked for it for years on YOUTUBE and only recently found it. I have posted it before. But now I am adapting it not to CALYPSO but to the NEW PAN TRINBAGO LEADERSHIP.
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Mr. Dupres: You could always get my email address from people that YOU KNOW that I KNOW.
And for years I have been PREACHING about PAN PROGRESS on THIS FORUM. And, honestly, given your LIFETIME OF DEVOTION TO PAN and my GLOBAL VISION for PAN MUSIC --
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