Sleep well, Asami. We all love you!
"WIN, LOSE OR DRAW, WE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER SILVER STARS". (EDWIN POUCHET)
Read more…by Raffique Shah - Wired868
I don’t think Trinidad’s Carnival is dying, as many people say it is.
For the traditionalists, it’s a case of wishful thinking. They want to see the jarring noise that passes for music—songs that have no melody, only hook
Read more…By Joy Vann
Correspondent
On a recent Saturday, while many teens enjoyed an unusually warm and sunny day outside, students from around Hampton Roads gathered to bang on metal drums.
They were learning to make music, keeping tradition alive and build
Read more…Hello everyone,
What do you think is the most significant piece of pan music we have recorded? Music I should be able to source on a record....
I am looking for our equivalent of Beethoven's Ode to Joy. Something timeless, iconic, makes you stop and li
Not with MUSIC but with MURDER!!!
http://www.guardian.co.tt/news/2016-02-12/international-media-pick-pannist%E2%80%99s-murder
Read more…I received a call from Clarence Curvan the other night. He was very moved by the passing of his dear friend and colleague Joey Lewis , and needed to express his feelings verbally.
Clarence , who is still in Trinidad asked me to put some of his feelin
February 11, 2016: It was a good start to the year from pan in Tobago, with an unprecedented 14 bands from the isla
Interesting choice of words!!!
http://www.newsday.co.tt/news/0,223841.html
Read more…by Michael L. Joseph
Public Relations Officer
Pan Trinbago Inc. T.C.
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Gary G Aboud of Port of Spain says that he is a lover of pan, but Pan Trinbago does not have the skill and efficiency to manage $34 million dollars in pri
Read more…Machel Montano has done it again.
The soca superstar has won the Road March title for the third time.
Montano's "Waiting on the Stage" won the Road March by a landlside with 328 plays.
Kes the Band's "People" came second with 29 plays.
Montano
Global - The term “icon” is tossed around much too loosely in our culture. Happily, it was not wasted on Joey Lewis, a giant of a musical presence not only in his native Trinidad and Tobago, but throughout the Eastern Caribbean, ever since he became
Read more…by When Steel Talks
Different Me -- “5Star Akil”
The legendary Desperadoes Steel Orchestra have got their swagger back. And they are letting ever
Read more…Keep posting Mr. Cedric!!! Put up some of your OWN TOPICS!!!
Read more…Trinidad and Tobago Newday
THE EDITOR: No entity should be permitted to evade public scrutiny and accountability, especially those that function using the people’s hard-earned money.
For Panorama 2016, Pan Trinbago received a $34 million free subsidy
Read more…Track:
1. Pantasy
2. Mavis John
3. Regeneration Now
4. Lord Kitchener
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Trinidad and Tobago’s biggest annual festival, Carnival, calls to me in a way that nothing else in my life ever has. As an Afro-Caribbean Black woman who immigrated to America when I was just 4, visits to my homeland feed my soul and put me in touch
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - After a 16-year wait and with a new arranger leading them, Desperadoes Steel Orchestra at 2.55 a.m. yesterday captured their 11th National Panorama Championship (Large Conventional Band category).
Supporters of the band f
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - STEELBAND instruments are one of several items which will not be subject to the revised Value Added Tax (VAT) regime. This was revealed in a special notice published by the Finance Ministry in the name of Finance Minister Co
Read more…Purpose:
To encourage, promote and reward the highest level of percussion education and musical excellence among high school and collegiate non-Western percussion-based performing ensembl
