Is there anyone else on this forum who is concerned about pan players beating rather than playing pans? Brooklyn Labor Day Panorama provided numerous examples. And the panorama in Trinidad is not much different. Is it that the focus is on learning th
Read more…I read on WST where Ray Holman who arranged Panorama tunes for Tokyo and Hummingbirds Pan Grove said Hummingbirds Pan Grove is a more powerful band than Tokyo, So why would a steelband with 120 players sound powerful on stage and another steelband
Read more…The Baron (Timothy Watkins) calypso crooner, also dubbed the Sweet Soca Man can sing anything from traditional Trinidadian songs, to American classics.
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When PAN was born it faced POLICE STATE OPPRESSION. Later on it faced SOCIAL OPPRESSION. Today, it faces ACADEMIC OPPRESSION.
But once it left TRINIDAD it is FLYING HIGH -- REACHING TO THE SKY. (I think I just stole a Kitchener lyric.)
Read more…Pan Fantasy - Al Foster arranger
Despers USA - Odie Franklin arranger
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It is just over seven months to date, since we in the steelpan fraternity lost an incredible musician and a great friend. Little did we know that February 2016, would
Read more…Long ago Calypsonians told us the future of world events and what would happen to PAN the national instrument of Trinidad and Tobago. KING Austin (Progress), in one of his lines he told us the world would become divided between race. color, creed and
Read more…Dr. Lamuel Stanislaus was an intellect, scholar and gentleman whose name is synonymous with excellence and integrity. This charismatic figure and former UN Ambassador is also one of the great historians of the Caribbean.
more from Dr. Stanislaus
A follow-up to a story we brought you two weeks ago, when Birdsong Steel Orchestra was thrown out on the streets by their landlord in Tunapuna. The band is slowly taking up residence at the old Works department at UWI, St. Augustine. They're determin
Read more…MHTL Starlift will be hosting a panel discussion tomorrow night 14th Sept. at 7pm at their pan yard, this should be a event not to miss.
Please share with us whatever you can be it video or message especially Dr Copeland segment on the Future and it'
Read more…2016 Winners
Despers USA - STEELBAND 'BOMB' Competition
D'Radoes - STEELBAND CALYPSO Competition
Sumkinabakanaal - RHYTHM BANDS
Oildowners - TRADITIONAL OLE MAS:
You are the only man on this entire forum who could encapsulate: NFL Football, NBA Basketball, WST References, AMERICAN Politics (Hint: Hillary Clinton), Pan Trinbago (Another hint: Keith Diaz) and the mal-broadcast of the NEW YORK Panorama with one
Read more…Interesting Steelband Facts and Trivia.
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| TRINIDAD ALL STARS : This band started in 1935 as the “Hell Yard Boys” They changed their name to “Second Fiddle” in 1936 They were also known as “Bad Behavior” In 1938, they changed th |
On the 20th August 2016, at a meeting in Belmont,Trinidad, the membership of XL4Pan nominated and approved the following persons and positions:
Mr Salah Wilson - President - XPATS
Mr Cary Codrington - President - LOCALS
Mr Bertel Gittens - Treasurer
Read more…The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: A look at the 2016 Brooklyn J’Ouvert Celebrations
New York, USA - 2016 Brooklyn J’Ouvert was tremendous, loving, fun-sharing - and it was an exhilarating joyous event pricked by heartbreaking tragedy. Two young lives
Austin Lewis, 73, known in the calypso world as King Austin, died yesterday, Sunday, morning at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital.
Austin’s son, Marvin King, said his father had been battling with Alzheimers for many years and added: “I was taking
Read more…by Michael "Brother Scobie" Joseph
Birdsong Steelpan Academy, epitomizes the phrase, 'a king has no honor In his own land'. Pantrinbago must take heed, because a blow to one is a blow to all. I tried looking at the unpleasant predicament of Birdsong
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