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The theme for this year's Junior Panorama Finals was "Celebrating Women In Music" as four women were recognized for their extensive work and contributions to the art form.
Chantelle Esdelle a musician and arranger was the first to r
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In the midst of the Trinidad Carnival season, the sound of steelpan isn't rare to hear.
However, hearing the sound of steelpan on a popular radio station morning show in Dubai may not be as common.
Yesterday, Trinidad and Tobago national Justin Hom
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St. Croix, USVI - Kevin Williams, Jr. has been playing steel pan for a long time although the youngster is still in 9th grade. His talent sees him serenading incoming tourists at the territory’s various ports; he has t
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The Junior National Steelband Panorama Finals went down at the Queens Park Savannah on Sunday and as every other year the event was a reminder that the future of this country's culture is in good hands.
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Renegades Youths
Trinidad All Stars Youth
St Joseph's Convent San Fernando Blue Steel
Read more…We all know what happen to the Andre White with Desperadoes and off course Andy Norrel who is no longer with Birdsong.Note Skiffle with the three New York based arrangers are occupying the same stellar position they held in the 2016 finals.
Read more…Ball Dropped on Junior Panorama 2017 Steel Orchestra Finalists
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It’s 8:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (9:00 a.m. local time) February 19, 2017. It’s the morning of the annual National Junior Panorama steelband competition in
Read more…Reigning Road March monarch Machel Montano has released a new music video for his road song, "Beat It".
Beat It was launched earlier this week, just two weeks before the parade of the bands.
Beat It is a celebration of the steel pan with lyrics that
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BATCE Steel performs for the judges for the 2017 Junior Panorama Preliminaries
Guaico Presbyterian School - "Full Extreme" - 2017 National Junior Panorama Prelims
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Beyoncé or Adele? That was the message from this year’s Grammy Awards, and the debate they’d like us to continue until next year’s ceremony. While “25” sold millions, it was far from the best album of the year.
2016 will be rememb
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Global - Gerome Bhola of Marabella in Southern Trinidad shared a few images from an old collection, relative to the world-famous Tripoli Steel Band participating in carnival in pre-1958 Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. The pictures were taken by his father
Calypso Rose
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Calypso Rose - Victoires de la musique 2017
We were the only people using "IRON" as percussion in music, why today we rush to drown it out in the rhythm section, as if we are ashamed of it, there is a drum they use today that drown out everybody. The IRON has to be heard in a steelband, steel
Read more…I think the GLOBAL FUTURE of PAN would have been better served leaving INVADERS out and putting MIA in the FINALS. But then again how big is the GLOBAL PANORAMA AUDIENCE and how is PANORAMA helping in putting TRINIDAD TALENT on the GLOBAL PAN STAGE.
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I've always felt that the story of the steelband flag woman was more a creation of our beloved calypso legend, the late Lord Kitchener, than reality.
True, there were flag women in the early days of the steelband, but these women were in the minority
Read more…“You have no band without a beautiful flagwoman,” sang the late Lord Kitchener in 1976 and 41 years later the flagwoman remains an important ingredient that flavours a steelband. Pan lore is replete with outstanding steelband flagwomen, like Mayfield
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