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The story behind Paddington's calypso songs

By Tim Masters Arts and entertainment correspondent, BBC News

The director of the new Paddington movie explains how the film's soundtrack came to include classic calypso songs.

As the Paddington film opens this weekend, audiences will be expecting pl

Another Soldier has fallen - Daddy Sparks

Condolences to the family and friends of Fitz-Gerald "Daddy" Sparks

He was born on Feb. 12 1931. He departed our shores @ age 83 on Wednesday Nov. 26,

Final rites to take place on Tuesday 2nd December @ Guides Funeral home, Coffee St. San Fernando fo

R.I.P. Radcliffe “Bakes” Baker - A Look Back at The Baker, The Panman, The Bandleader

San Fernando, Trinidad & Tobago W.I. - In his effort to fulfill a childhood dream to become a panman Radcliffe Baker enlisted as a member of Destroyers Steelband at the age of 17. The band was then located at the corner of Marryat and Cooper Streets

Loss to the global pan community - Ari Viitanen, Finland

Anyone remembers the highly energetic talented band from Finland in the World Steelband Festival in 2000 (Trinidad), playing Kitch's Pan in A Minor?  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L50GHUa8elo

The arranger, Ari Viitanen, who also made the pans, tu

WHY ALL STARS WON 'BAND OF THE YEAR':

by Rubadiri Victor

2014 will be remembered as the year that the Port of Spain Carnival died with the Mardi Gras ascendent, the Canboulay routed. However in the ashes of the battlefield one could see rear-guard action by the Canboulay Forces...

This

My First Pan - Double Seconds or Tenor?

Hello,

I am finally going to buy a pan and learn. After years of thinking about it time and again, Im going to do it. I am of Trini descent, and grew up in Trinidad as a young boy, relatively close to a panyard too. I remember "pushing pan" at carniv

Kernal Roberts with Exodus to remake The Toco Band, for Panorama

Last week, Roberts released his first 2015 single Soca State of Mind and is collaborating with Exodus to remake one of his father’s hits, The Toco Band, for Panorama.

read more http://j.mp/1ttEAcZ

T&T PRODUCES THE MOST MUSIC IN THE WORLD...

Does anyone benefit from the production of all this music?

Pan! Our Music Odyssey! CD/DVD Box Set now available

A CD/DVD boxset of the critically acclaimed Trinidad made film Pan! Our Music Odyssey was released in local stores across the country on November 20.

The DVD features the ground breaking 85 minute docu-drama that blends a fictional account of the ad

Rebuilding pan's mythology

by Mark Lyndersay - Trinidad Guardian

There’s a moment right in the middle of Pan, the new film about the national instrument written by Kim Johnson and directed by Jerome Guiot that summarises all the hopes that the creative team have for their subj

PANORAMA 2015, MEDIA LAUNCH - PRESIDENT SPEECH - Trinidad and Tobago

PAN TRINBAGO INC

PANORAMA 2015, MEDIA LAUNCH

THURSDAY 27^TH NOVEMBER 2014

VIP LOUNGE, QUEEN’S PARK SAVANNAH

PRESIDENT'S SPEECH

Members of the Media, Officers of the Association, the C.E.O. and staff of F.C.L., please accept a sincere expression of g

HAPPY THANKSGIVING....

To all our American friends, give thanks.

''Happy Thanksgiving

''Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving to All My WST Brothers and Sisters and All My Pan People who Celebrate Thanksgiving. May Almighty God Our Creator Most High Continue to Richly Bless and Keep You and Yours.

Master Tuner Wallace Austin

Master Tuner Wallace Austin

Wallace Austin at Basement Recordings/ WST Studios

Wallace Austin is considered as one of the finest steelpan tuners ever. Wallace Austin was part of the legendary team of tuners (Rudolph Charles, Lincoln Noel, James 'Bas

Rudolph ‘Rudy’ King - The Father of the Steelband in America by esteemed ethnomusicologist, journalist and educator Doris Green.

A member of his band died as they travel through America's segregated South when he was denied water for his medication. Check out this WST special by Doris Green

 

Global - Born in Trinidad, Rudy King is known as the first person to bring the steel

All-steel group to perform Christmas shows in Florida

Martinsville Bulletin

Virginia, USA - It’s unlikely that it will be a white Christmas for the Virginia All-Steel Orchestra. This year, the group will spend Christmas Day performing at Universal Studios in Florida.

Shawn Thwaites, executive director

Pan! Our Music Odyssey in cinemas November 5th -- Trinidad and Tobago

Pan! Our Music Odyssey opens at cinemas across the country on November 5th. The film can be seen at Cinemas 8 Trincity, Movie Towne, Digicel IMAX and Empire Cinema San Fernando.

Pan! Our Music Odyssey brings together in docu-drama form, a fictional a

Supernovas Steel Orchestra and Jazz Legend Monty Alexander Join 2014 Moods Of Pan Line-up

Antigua & Barbuda, W.I. - Championship band Supernovas Steel Orchestra will enthrall music lovers in Antigua for the annual Moods Of Pan festival being held in the twin-island country’s capital of St. John’s at the end of the month. The orchestra wil

A Night to Remember - Bravo, Bravo, Bravo - Kendall Williams ACO, NYU, BSO, Crossfire and the Steelpan

New York, New York - This is a magnificent music story that is so much more. It is a story about the human condition that allows one to grow, overcome, provide opportunity and affect change on a community.

The event was “Composers OutFront“ and the

IT"S ABOUT TIME......

The eyes of pan people through-out the world are on those responsible for pushing aside matters concerning the Governance of the Steelband.

You all have contributed greatly to the stagnation of steelbands thus creating an atmosphere of helpless and h