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Katzenjammers

Some bands have made changes with arrangers for the 2016 year, what are your thoughts on Katzenjammers changing arrangers, I thought Leon did a good job with the band this year. I am not sure on why the change.

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No live TV for Soca Monarch next year -- Is this a working model for Panorama?

The International Soca Monarch (ISM) is evolving! For the 2016, there will be no live television broadcast, no live pay-per-view and no online streaming of the ISM final. Instead, the show wil

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Pan in D Country Side 2015

Pan Trinbago's "Pan in D Country Side" 2015 was fantastic. All participants and patrons agreed that it was one of the best. Maybe it was because of the nature of the event. In this, the last such event for 2015, a number of Steelbands volunteered to

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Submitting songs for panorama 2016

I submitted two songs to WST for Panorama 2016.  The first song, " The Struggle My Name is Pan," took over a month and two submissions of the song before it was put up.  Then it was placed in the enclave and never actually added to the main page so t

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DESPERS HAS LOST ITS WAY

Since the Death of Master Clive Bradley Ten Years ago This Month. Despers has Regressed From being the Greatest Steelband of the 2oth Century to being just an Ordinary Steelband, who cant even Qualify for the First ever International Panorama. Its Sa

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David Ijaduola - Music is my Life

by Robbie Joseph

David ijaduola is an all-round musician from being a performer to an arranger and composer. His musical interest started at the tender age of 3 when he began to play his mother’s pots and pans using spoons as his sticks to imitate dr

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For Glenroy, odw, bugs and other calypso lovers -- a different version

TRINI TO THE BONE

06 TRINI TO D BONE.wma

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Between 1950 and 2015, HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS have been spent SUBSIDIZING STEELBANDS: was this money well spent?

Between Sponsors and Government HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of dollars have been poured into the STEELBAND MOVEMENT over the last 65 years. (Not to mention the millions spent by foreign governments flying these steelbands all around the world.)  Yet, today,

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DENIAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS

[1].   In October 2012, I submitted my nomination [duly supported by two financial members] for the upcoming elections to the Central Executive of Pan Trinbago. The Secretary sent me a letter stating that my nomination was rejected as I was a delegat

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When Steel Talks and BestOfTrinidad.com Collaborate

Ronald C. Emrit with the Trinidad Steelband in Washington, DC, at the State Department Christmas Party hosted by the late Senator Robert Kennedy (December 1967)

As one of a few considered avenues for expanding WST’s historical data, facts and figur

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WST History of Pan Time Line

1783	Mass exodus from Haiti, Martinique & Guadeloupe to Trinidad White population grows from one hundred (100), to twenty-five hundred (2,500) Introduction of Mardi Gras (Christmas to Ash Wednesday) Slave & colored population mushrooms from five

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STEELBAND TRIVIA FOR MY PAN BUDDIES.

What was the First Year that a South Band Did not Make it to the Finals At National Panorama?  Easy One.

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KEITH DIAZ: THE SAVIOUR OF PAN

While posters on this forum are criticizing THE PRESIDENT OF PAN TRINBAGO, local panmen are hailing him the SECOND COMING OF CHRIST -- here to save PAN and the GREATER ECONOMY OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO.

http://www.newsday.co.tt/letters/0,219499.html

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Antigua Girls’ High is steel band champs

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"PAN FRIENDLY" MUSIC

Cecil Hinkson made me blink three times and sit up straight when he coined the expression "pan friendly tunes" -- maybe it was used before on this forum but I cannot remember seeing it. I wish I had heard that term when I was 9 years old.

For the las

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The Circle of Fifths

From time to time on this forum there have been discussions about the "circle of fifths" as it relates to the steelpan , it's creation and creators.

As a non musician , I've been highly intrigued by these discussions, and did some research out of cur

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COULD YOU ENVISION AND ENJOY PANORAMA WHEN ALL 100 PLUS STEEL ORCHESTRAS TUNE OF CHOICE HAS NO LYRICS.

Mr. Claude Gonzales said in an earlier post and I quote ( I think that in a few short years PANORAMA TUNES will NO LONGER HAVE LYRICS. if you listen to the PANORAMA COMPOSITIONS with a critical calypso ear the problem is self-evident. ) end of quote.

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BIRTHDAY GREETINGS TO MRS BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE

The New Visionaries Pan Foundation extends Birthday Greetings to Beverley Ramsey-Moore.

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Happy Birthday to Ellie Mannette

When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to panist, tuner and inventor Ellie Mannette.

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New York Pan Pioneer Milton Gabriel has passed

When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family an d friends of Milton Gabriel.

Brooklyn, New York - The Big Apple again took the lead, by honoring its central steelpan music figures in the development of Pan in New York, as the Trinidad & Tobago

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