I just saw a Blog Post that stated Norman Darway died last Wednesday, he was a Steelband Historian, I remember him as a soccer referee in the Poor House back in the 60s. Condolences to his family.
Read more…Can anyone tell us anything about the event at Metro Pan yard?
Read more…Seeing that this event is not too far away [8-9th August] it would be nice if we get an update. Foreigners have to book time off from their jobs and locate accommodation in T&T.
Read more…Can Anyone Name any Original Steel bands that are Still Functioning.
Read more…The Jamaica Gleaner
This year, the annual Classics in June concert, sponsored by the Kingston Soroptomist Club, was staged on Sunday. It was Father's Day and the item which got the loudest applause was dedicated to a father. It was the popular DuBose
Read more…Long Ago when you hear a Steel Band playing on the radio and you don't know the tune they are playing, You will know if it is Starliff or Invaders or despers or Fonclaire playing; and even on the drag for Panorama when a Band strikes up in the dis
Read more…A young panorama musician contacted WST for information on when T&T Panorama 2015 checks will be available. Can someone in the know post that information asap?
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Pan Trinbago vice president, Brian Serrette, rather curiously asserted at the opening of the Univer
Trinidad Newsday
PRESIDENT Anthony Carmona was yesterday presented with a framed copy of two sets of postage stamps respectively from Ghana and Grenada, each commemorative set featuring His Excellency with Pope Francis the latter playing the steelpan
Read more…Can U imagine "anyone" receiving $34.5 million US dollars circa 2005, from the then ROTT Government, to research and create a new family of pans, already researched and created, Design Patent and Trademark, with Moral Rights where Copyright is automa
Read more…Happy Birthday to steelpan music great Anthony Williams on his 84th birthday.
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Accomplishments of Anthony Williams by David Maunday
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Anthony Williams involved in putting pan on wheels in the late 1950s
To all Panmen that's Fathers, and the Mothers that has to be both HAPPY FATHERS DAY.
Read more…Which Large Band Steel Orchestra has Won Panorama on more Than one occasion Playing in First Position and again Won Panorama on more that one occasion Playing in Last Position.( IN DIFFERENT YEARS OF CAUSE ).
Read more…This will be necessary to facilitate the further "Evolution," a process of change in the particular direction, of the instrument, back to it's rightful state of ORIGIN, without further ABUSE, by a FASCIST REGIME that pigeon hold the development of th
Read more…With Tuners, Arrangers, Players the ring's in the Circus, and Pan Trinbago the Ring Master, consistently smiling pan people $$$$$$, while they/pan people live in poverty and squalor to later die like dog's...
Read more…Congratulations to St. Margaret’s Boys’ Steel Orchestra. You gave an awesome and historical performance at Carnegie Hall.
Read more…And look at all the HIGH MAKA MAKA circles the man is flying in!!! After September 7th if Rowley wins (god forbid) expect to see Diaz posing in some newspaper smiling and kissing up to Rowley.
by Errol S. Pilgrim 10/06/15
The late Prime Minister and Father of the Nation, Dr. Eric Eustace Williams, had been at his prophetic best when he warned Trinidad and Tobago that “after the PNM it would be at best bacchanal and at worse massacre”. Our
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