Here is the first song!!! We will continue to update as more MUSIC unfolds!!!
Read more…Breaking News- PAN TRINBAGO JACKASS OF THE NIGHT. Here we go again...... Imagine Gerard Mendez, Chairman of the Northern Region displayed total disrespect whilst CAL Invaders were performing for the judges.The Minister of Culture was present . He ope
Read more…PANORAMA ARRANGERS (The most PAN KNOWLEDGEABLE PEOPLE in the world) know this and they JUMP ON THE SONG. The more others are playing it the greater the PANORAMA CHALLENGE.
Ah doh know what everybody complaining about!!!
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At one point during pan historian Kim Johnson’s 2014 TedX talk in Port-of-Spain, he explained that “before pan is encountered as music, it is experienced as a form of belonging.”
“Learning (pan),” argued Johnson, “is through pleasure and love.”
Some
Read more…Try to take a TOP DOWN view!!! But this possibility was hinted at earlier on this forum long before PROFESSOR PHILMORE (People should read PROFESSOR MERRYTONESTOTHEBONES postings more carefully) started FACING THE MUSIC. But as he said: Maybe now tha
Read more…There are more steelbands than there are players.
That is the view of NLCB Fonclaire arranger Ken 'Professor' Philmore.
Mr. Philmore spoke to C News after his band performed for the judges at their San Fernando home on Monday night. Ian Wason has mo
PAN TRINBAGO insists that they have always acted in the best interest of the STEELBAND!!!
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What i'm hearing is total dissonance, in other words NOISE, music is about voices and or instruments in conversation with each other, not aguments, the last good panorama I've heard was in 1978, "Starlift" since then, total dissonance / noise, myself
Read more…The China Post
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- American steelpan jazz fusion group Jonathan Scales Fourchestra will hold concerts and participate in other cultural activities in Taiwan in February, as part of the 2017 American Music Abroad program, co-organized by
Read more…I know that the UPPM has a whole shadow executive all lined up to replace KEITH DIAZ, but is the recycling of the usual suspects the best road to travel.
The "verification exercise" mentioned in this report should rankle the CRACKSHOTS.
Read more…Skiffle - 2017 South Central Prelim Performances
Fonclaire - 2017 South Central Prelim Performances
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Culture Minister Dr. the Honourable Nyan Gadsby-Dolly toured several pan yards this week including Pan Jammers, San Juan All Stars, Valley Harps Steel Orchestra and Newtown Play Boys Steel Symphony.
On January 26, the Minister was also present for
Read more…Any connection with Diaz will only tarnish the Desperadoes legacy and history. Let Diaz leech on to an imagainary single pan band to run Pan Trinbago.
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Read more…I know that it is a STEELBAND FORUM but it is an EXPAT STEELBAND FORUM and ultimately all these pieces fit into the BIGGER PICTURE of PAN.
http://newsday.co.tt/news/0,239097.html
Read more…LET Carnival pass, and let us pray that some juju force invoked by a Jouvert devil not foul up the plans and hopes of Minister Nyan Gadsby-Dolly.
For Carnival and forensic audit just don't go together.
Still, “Forensic Audit” imprin
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