Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The State will pay out $2.9 million in financial assistance to more than 180 unsponsored steel-bands across the country – including the Samaroo Jets started by the late pan icon Jit Samaroo – acco
Read more…I can't remember the last time Exodus was not in the finals. Is this end of the big five? What did you think of Pelham's arrangement?
Read more…Narrell's discussions on pan are always interesting. (See Andy Narell His Music & Steelband Panorama)
For example, when he says "we have done, perhaps 1% of what we can with the steelband", and I respond "WHAT"? I then remind myself tha
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The North Stand seems to have regained its pride of place as THE party spot at Panorama semi-finals.
The crowd this year was smaller than years past thanks in part to the increased $400 ticket price and strict restrictions on the number
An active steelplan player in his native Trinidad & Tobago, Dr. Lennox Borel assumed that life was behind him when he arrived in Canada in 1960 to pursue post-secondary studies at the University of Toronto.
He was so wrong.
Just as the
Read more…By Melissa Doughty Newsday
From as early as 8.30am the sounds of pan wafted through the City of Port-of-Spain. A line of small conventional bands lined what is commonly referred to as The Drag; awaiting their turn in the 2016 National Panorama semi-fi
Read more…Its about Time that Andy Narel Leave our Panorama Music alone if He Cant understand it, Instead of Trying to Force His Low Energy Music Upon us.
Read more…by Kalifa Clyne - Trinidad Guardian
Minister of Arts, Culture and Community Development Nyan Gadsby-Dolly says T&T is looking to South America as a potential market for steelpan and steelpan services.
Gadsby-Dolly said this during an interview yester
Read more…The Transparency Institute Guyana Inc. (TIGI) yesterday said that the Department of Culture, Youth and Sport of the Ministry of Education has been dragging its feet on a probe into the alleged misuse by its staff of state-owned steel pans.
In a state
Read more…Salah: There is so much discussion of PAN MUSIC on this forum by the LESS MUSICALLY INFORMED. I would really like you to come on and explain some of the PANORAMA musical intricacies to the MASSES.
Read more…‘Afropop’ television SERIES BEATS THE DRUM FOR ‘PAN’
Episode two of the documentary series is ‘Pan! Our Music Odyssey’,
an exploration of the magic and mystery behind the steel drum, or pan
Premieres on WORLD Channel on Monday, January 25
NEW YORK (
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Congrats in Order for Phase 11 Pan Groove for Their Brilliance in Topping The Semis.
''Which Bands Placing's You thought Were Either Too High or Too Low.?
Read more…Somebody should write a Trinidad version of this calypso!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iVD6OPHqF8
Read more…Breaking Belize News -- January 23, 2016
By Aaron Humes: Representatives of Pandemonium Steel Band traveled to Trinidad and Tobago today to take part in the largest gathering of steelpan bands in the world, known as “Panorama”.
Steel pan music has g
Read more…Minister of Arts, Culture and Community Development Nyan Gadsby-Dolly says T&T is looking to South America as a potential market for steelpan and steelpan services.
Gadsby-Dolly said this during an interview yesterday at her Nicholas Towers office in
Read more…England, U.K. - Author James McGrath said to When Steel Talks “I'm especially keen to re-promote this piece at present, because a new, very long book on the Beatles has just been published - and, though it has its merits, it is very disappointing to
Read more…Panorama is outgrowing the Queen’s Park Savannah but there’s no alternative venue to stage this premier annual steelband competition, which was born at this venue in 1963.
This and other challenges perennially face Pan Trinbago president Keith Diaz b
Read more…GARY CARDINEZ Saturday, January 23 2016
THE theme for this year’s Panorama rang through last Wednesday evening as hundreds of pan music lovers took the annual pilgrimage from steel orchestra to steel orchestra for the judges’ visit in the Large Conve
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