Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - National Panorama 2017 will officially kick off on Thursday 19 January 2017 in Tobago with the Single Pan category under the theme “Transformation In Steel.”
Sixty seven (67)) Single Pan Bands have registered to participate
Youth are the future of pan, and with this motivation Pan Trinbago, as part of the International Conference and Panorama started a week of events on August 3 with a youth empowerment programme.
Welcome to Carnival 2017 as we levitate by creating elegant solutions to resolve our myriad challenges. In context, Laventille is the epicentre of the Steelpan, national musical instrument of Trinidad & Tobago. From foot to summit, its sound emanates
With the NCC poised to take back control of Panorama, moving the large bands Panorama contest back into the Sunday's Dimanche Gras would a shot in the arm for the event. Secondly the, Medium and Small bands would have day to shine for themselves.
In 1970 Phillip said pan tuner Wallace Austin came to Chaguanas and he was taken under the wings of the "top tuner". "Austin came Chaguanas to tune for a band and he wanted people to work with him so I went and I hooked up with
The funeral service for Reginald "Panky" Sobers will take place on Sunday January 22nd, 2017 @ Plaza Jewish Community Chapel, 630 Amsterdam Avenue and 91st Street in Manhattan, 4pm to 5pm. It will be followed by a repast in the build next door. Thank
Culture and Arts Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly has said the National Carnival Commission (NCC) will be collecting the gate receipts at Panorama 2017 events.
However, Pan Trinbago public relations pfficer Michael Joseph said the “gate receipts issue
KEITH DIAZ is talking BIG AND BOLD now that he has vanquished all pretenders to his throne!!! And he wants the GOVERNMENT to know that it should remain one of the primary drivers of the instrument’s development.
Persons interested in making mas may be disappointed to learn that a Master of Arts in Carnival Studies would not necessarily train them to do so. However, it would qualify them to serve on Carnival committees, judge Carnival competitions, ad
What I learned is that when your opponent is down with a fake heart attack, you never pray for him to get well and get back up. I also learned that Dr. Dolly can clean up Pan by simply holding on to the gate receipts. The Pan Players will not boycott
As everybody know, TRINIDAD IS THE LAND OF CALYPSO. But when these STEELBANDS go on the stage for PANORAMA you cannot hear any CALYPSO in the performance. I would like to hear at least one STEELBAND play GOOD MORNING as if they are trying to reach th
I unreservedly apologize to anyone who feels aggrieved, Nigel Williams, Desiree Myers, Michael Marcano, and Keith Byer especially included, that the movement that Dane and I led, for the Real Change that we sought, seemingly capitulated to the pressu
...The issues and concerns raised by the protesting pan players will be dealt with when the substantive president of the steel band body returns from his three week sick leave. Diaz underwent angioplasty surgery to his heart to unclog blocke
IT IS WITH A VERY SAD HEART I ANNOUNCE THE PASSING OF REGINALD "PANKY" SOBERS, PANKY AS MOST PEOPLE KNEW HIM BY DEPARTED THIS EARTH YESTERDAY. HE WAS A VERY FRIENDLY, GIVING AND FUNNY PERSON, WHEN PANKY WAS AROUND, YOU WERE SURE TO HEAR EVERYONE LAUG