Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - “I’ve grown up around Aunty Pat, hearing her thoughts over and over about the treatment of pan and our culture. It has help shaped my own thoughts on the issue at hand, so t
by Tony Fraser
By DONNA TEREK The Detroit News
...Lyndon Sorzano, 43, says the sound of steel drums was everywhere when he was growing up in Trinidad and Tobago. He played in a school band that won a trip to play a music festival in Inverness, Scotland, an experie
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New York, USA - “It’s just such an amazing instrument to say you know how to play....I feel like the community doesn’t welcome steel pan....The community needs to be more understanding and welcoming t
California, USA - ““...I am, and must be, an advocate for the pan every time I pick up my mallets, direct a rehearsal at school, or talk to someone about pan... I'm still just as captivated by the pan
New York, USA - “....It's not noise, it's music. Bring a chair, sit down and listen; trust and believe you're gonna enjoy it. You might even jump up out of your chair and start dancing - or come back th
Indiana - Westfield High School music teacher Jeffrey McLaughlin learned how beneficial a WEF grant can be this school year. McLaughlin used his $1,000 grant to have steel pan educator David Chase visit his class. Chase is originally from Trinidad an
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Maine, USA - “...Pan and its music (and what we do with it) is at times my salvation, my sanity, and my feeling of worth. It is my joy (AND my frustrations while learning new songs). Nothing else (othe
Many years ago on Carnival days when Steelbands used to come up Charlotte and Frederick Streets one behind the other the first thing you see is the Flag Man or Woman then the banner stretch across the street with the band's Name and Logo big and bold
Read more…Here is an ACTION ITEM. During my time on this forum, three SERIOUS PAN DEVOTEES (living in Trinidad) have impressed me with their commitment and dedication to PAN.
Gerard Clarke, Bertel Gittens and Alima Garcia are LIVING THE PAN DREAM, in my books
Read more…Brunch at 107.7 with Rennie Bishop featuring UWI Levturer, Writer, Researcher and Consultant, Dr. Joanne Tull. "The Economics Of Carnival"
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - This is the feature address delivered by the Permanent Secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Education, Angela Sinaswee-Gervais at the Pan in Schools Coordinating Council Cheque Distribution Ceremony at the Mucurapo West Secon
New York, USA - “As a woman in pan I’ve always felt as though I had to prove that I could play just as well as the men around me. Especially when I started to move on to different sections such as the q
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Winners of the Governor General Award For Literary Excellence: Shakirah Bourne (In Time Of Need) and Winston Farrell (Barefoot On Ice).
Some may not know you were a competent track and field athlete, had entered two pagean
Read more…By Kimoy Leon Sing --- Trinidad Express
PAN ANIMATION: Characters in a 2D animated series called Legends of Panderica done by Brian Matthew Benoit.
‘to another level...’: Steelpan player and founder of the Benoit Academy of Steelpan, Brian Matthew
The storied career of the artist who has been the most renowned name ever in the field of calypso, Mighty Sparrow, will be examined in a symposium presented by the Trinidad & Tobago Folk Arts Institute, in collaboration with the Medgar Evers College
Read more…Every time I read a post on this forum making a suggestion about what PAN TRINBAGO should do to BRING PAN BACK ON THE ROAD FOR CARNIVAL or improve the PLIGHT OF PAN MEN -- ah have to hold meh head and bawl because man doh know what dey talkin bout at
Read more…The Calypsopera Cafe will hold auditions for the production of The Carnival is Over, a semi-ficticious musical based on the life and times of the late Aldwyn Roberts, the Lord Kitchener.
The venue for the auditions is The Opera Cafe, at the courtyard
Read more…Just had a lengthy discussion on this and thought it may be interesting to the pan community. It may have been posted on WST sometime in the past but I have not seen it.
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New York, USA - “I see Pan on the same level as all of the other traditional instruments in the world, like the piano and the guitar. I would love to have a conversation about Pan with a complete strang
