Grenada-born Dr Slinger Francisco, 79, better known as the Mighty Sparrow has been conferred with the Order of the British Empire (OBE).
The phrase "losing the plot" seems a bit strong in the context of these issues, but I am open to a more colloquial improvement after you have read this post.
In the U.K, there was a huge appetite for steel bands, and I mean really huge, but nowadays
Read more…It was an evening of steel explosion and sweet melodies of the pan music when the Ministry of Tobago Development and Pan Trinbago’s Tobago Region collaborated for “Pan Passion 2, Pan on a Level.” The sweet, intoxicating sounds of steelpan rang throug
Read more…I'v seen the second love of my life, PANORAMA, after the MUSIC FESTIVAL, totally ERADICATED/DESTROYED, by Arobic Dancing behind the instruments, it's high time ALL YAH stop playing WITH the Instrument, and start PLAYIN IT...
Read more…In their continuing efforts to promote the steelpan globally, while ensuring that Trinidad and Tobago remains identified as the birthplace and Mecca of the instrument, Pan Trinbago is working to raise at least TT$12M to host its International Confer
Read more…Pan is on the move: An exclusive ministry for the steelpan in Trinidad and Tobago
“What else can be done for pan?” This question has been asked for decades by pan aficionados and others in Trinidad and Tobago the birthplace of the steelpan. Calypso s
Read more…I don't know the status of the New Visionaries presently but I would to commend them for their effort in trying to oppose the executive of the Pan Trinbago, they did an excellent job with the resources they had.
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Steel bands have become an integral part of Antigua's culture
The sound hits you long before you see the canvas gazebo and the ensemble beneath it: a motley crew of musicians from schoolteachers to mechanics, pens
Trinidad Newsday
By Melissa Doughty Thursday, June 11 2015
Dr Lincoln Douglas, Minister of Arts and Multiculturalism, said yesterday the upcoming International Conference and Panorama (ICP) will provide a needed bounce for the country’s internationa
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Seventeen-year-old secondary school students, Joshua Bedeau and Jaron Woodsley, leave this weekend on an intensive two week music scholarship programme at Birch Creek Music Performance Centre, Wisconsin, United States.
The teenagers
Read more…The Forum needs a new set of contributors to breathe life into it. Too many members are just observers, I'm afraid we won't grow like that.
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In the midst of global headlines for all the wrong reasons, a group of boys and young men will reveal a different side of T&T when they take to the renowned stage of Carnegie Hall in New York next Wednesday.
Judging from their recent
Read more…It Has been Long Said that Panorama is Killing Pan ''But''
Read more…Is it because were to TALENTED / CREATIVE, or DUMB ???
Read more…It's HIGH TIME THAT I get on the "Pan Tuners BUTT... Since the single pan band HAD RESURFACED in the 1980s, the TONE of pan and PLAYING has taken a 80% turn backward, as pan is no longer played, but instead BEATEN, AGAIN I've heard, and still continu
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Washington, DC, USA - An enormous poster of the movie “Casablanca” looms over a desk as film producers Kim Johnson and Jean Michel Gilbert speak, via Skype, from Port of Spain in Trinidad and Tobago. The poster does not suggest any pa
Does anyone know how much money was made from the Greens this year, and whats being done with it?
Read more…St. Croix Source
St. Croix, USVI - The sounds of steel pan bands filled the air Saturday afternoon as PanoRama kicked off the month-long St. John Festival celebration, this year with a theme of “Come Together Culturally On the Scene for Festival 20
Read more…Pan is and instrument created out of the need for "Spiritual Enlightenment", player's spend most of there time DANCING behind the instrument, other than playing the instrument the way it is to be played, pan is not a CIRCUS of MOCKERY, or a DANCE CLA
Read more…FORMER prime minister Basdeo Panday said that the United States Department of Justice's request to extradite Independent Liberal Party (ILP) political leader Jack Warner who was charged with racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering will be a lon
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