Looking below the surface...
"Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin." -
Ivan Pavlov 1849 -1936
Look beneath the surface as Prowler would say.
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"Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin." -
Ivan Pavlov 1849 -1936
Look beneath the surface as Prowler would say.
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They have no credibility, no honor, no shame.
Six months later, while plans are being made for Carnival 2016 Trinidad and Tobago has not paid the young people who participated in panorama 2015.
It is time for a strike by the players and a boycott of
Read more…When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to the great Neville Jules.
Read more…Sioux City, IA (ABC9 News) - Sioux City welcomed University of Iowa's PanAmerican Steel Band Sunday at Western Iowa Tech. PanAmerican Steel is an all percussion band mostly made up of, you guessed it, steel drums. Students in PanAmerican steel range
Read more…By CECILY ASSON - Trinidad Newsday
The only steelband in Penal has embarked on a mission to transform their panyard into a “liming block” and members are making it clear that the “block” will not be one where idle thoughts prevail, but one where you
Read more…As I watched the video clip of Garvin Blake Parallel Overtones I ask myself what if the keyboard used the pan tone and a Epan or some other pan app played bass this will certainly put PAN in another place.This is one of the roads we have to travel w
Read more…Congratulations to Despers USA and all the participants in "The Arrangers" event. Well done.
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Trinidad, Tunapuna - From July 6-August 8, 2015 birdsong Academy will host its 12th annual Vacation Music Camp. The camp is conducted from 8am-4pm Mondays through Fridays at venues in the Tunapuna community, including the panyard, the UWI St A |
B. B. King, whose world-weary voice and wailing guitar lifted him from the cotton fields of Mississippi to a global stage and the apex of American blues, died Thursday in Las Vegas. He was 89.
His death was r
Read more…Today is Ian Franklyn birthday lets send him a greeting.
Read more…Trinidad Newsday
Methanol Holdings Trinidad Limited (MHTL) has donated US$100,000 to the St. Margaret’s Boys’ Steel Orchestra from Belmont to participate in the 2015 New York Sounds of Summer International Music Festival at the prestigious Carnegie H
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Brooklyn Steel Orchestra (BSO) is a collective of young and talented musicians, hungry for knowledge and determined to progress the Steel Pan in their community. Coming up this August, an opportunity to not only share our talents and experiences, b
Read more…Lately I've been thinking that one of the reasons that our beloved art form does not receive the popular recognition among the general public that it deserves, is because of the lack of an identifiable music genre associated with the instrument.
In
Read more…Happy Mother's Day to my MOM Neutrice, my Sister Shirley,and Marilyn, to my four X wife's Sylvia, Kay, Patty Gail, and Robyn, to my Daughter's Prudence, Tracy Nichole, Crystal, Ebony, Cinnamon, Allison, Tama...
Read more…To the Pan Women who are mothers and all other mothers, we salute you on this day but thank you for doing what you do everyday.
Read more…When Steel Talks extends birthday greeting to champion arranger Robert Greenidge....
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Brooklyn, New York - Packed to the brim, with crowd overflow outside the venue - on a Monday evening at the trendy and world-famous "Sugarcane" in Brooklyn, New York - no chairs, no tables - standing room only - Garvin Blake, Frankie McIntosh |
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Brooklyn, New York - On Sunday evening, April 26 2015, they gathered in impressiv
Condolences to the Philip family on the passing of Mikey, he was a StarLift panman who later became the captain of Phase ll.
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