WHO WAS THE FIRST PERSON YOU KNOW OF THAT STARTED PLAYING WITH 3 STICKS.

I spoke to Spongy this morning and he said that  the first he knew of was the Bonaparte Bros, my comrade Cecil said that Steve Regis was the first, Do you know of who was the first or who you know of that played with 3 Sticks first? (good info for th

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"High Mas" How did this arrangement win Panorama?

"My main concern is setting this thing forward as an example to what can be done with this kind of music, what changes can be made and what kind of music can be acceptable."

Master arranger Clive Bradley....http://youtu.be/UrYA5-Pxclc

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Long delays at East Pan prelims

Trinidad Express Newspapers

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The small and medium steelbands preliminaries in Pan Trinbago’s national steelband Panorama competition took place Thursday night at Arima Velodrome. It was too long and made nonsense of this year

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Everard Leon - Music Maker - (The genesis of Dixieland)

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It was Carnival Monday shortly after World War 2. The newly formed steelband players who called themselves, The Boys from Iwo Jima, but was dubbed “The White Boys from Corbeaux Town,” led by Ernes

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ARRANGERS THAT ARRANGING FOR THEIR ALTERNATE BANDS (MEDIUM/SMALL/PAN ROUND THE NECK) IS JUST A HUSTLE?

Do you think that Arrangers that arranging for their alternate bands (Medium/Small/ Pan round the neck) is just a Hustle or do you think they put their heart and soul like they do with their Main band? just asking!

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...Singer Seeger’s legacy extends throughout Maine and across the generations

Portland Press Herald

He inspired a coast-based steel band, helped write workers’ songs and made music fun for kids.
 

Maine, USA - In the fall of 1954, Pete Seeger began his long-running column “Appleseeds” in Sing Out! Magazine. He dedicated it to

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Acorn helps to get The Castle School's Panache steel band Barbados-bound

Thornbury News

Thornbury, ENGLAND - A Thornbury- based steel band is planning a cultural visit to the West Indies.

The Castle School’s steel pan group Panache is travelling to Barbados to play in hotels, at a prestigious reception for the British Hi

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$150M Debt - Pan Trinbago to share in $40 million "funding activities" balance

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Minister of the Arts and Multiculturalism Dr Lincoln Douglas will give $190 million to cover Carnival costs, but most of it, $150 million, will be used to pay debts incurred since 2010, he told ye

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Epan 4 Keishaun fundraiser

Hey people...I am trying to gather enough money to purchase an epan. SO I have this fund raiser online. Can you please donate something, any amount is appreciated http://www.gofundme.com/epan4keishaun

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$150M CARNIVAL DEBT

MINISTER of the Arts and Multiculturalism Dr Lincoln Douglas will give $190 million to cover Carnival costs, but most of it, $150 million, will be used to pay debts incurred since 2010, he told yesterday’s post-Cabinet news briefing at the Office of

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Poor support for single pan bands

Trinidad & Tobago Guardian

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - A small crowd of pan supporters showed up for the National Single Pan Panorama preliminaries at The Paddock, Queen’s Park Savannah, Port-of Spain, on Saturday. Twenty-eight of the 29 bands register

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CECIL HINKSON: Your forum is dying, man!!!

Cecil: You need more posters and topics to keep the 12000+ member forum alive. Bring some people off the sidelines. One BULLY should not spoil the whole bunch of PAN LOVERS.

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Third World lead singer Bunny Rugs is dead

Jamaica Gleaner

WESTERN BUREAU:
Lead singer of the iconic reggae band, Third World, William 'Bunny Rugs' Clarke is dead.

Clarke, who would have turned 66 this Thursday, February 6, passed away last night in a hospital in Orlando, Florida.

He had

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Pre-carnival suggestions

2 friends and myself will be in Trinidad Feb 9 through 17 (traveling on the 8 and 18.) I have been before but my friends haven't. We all play pan and that will be our focus. Any suggestions on what we should try to see and do while there? Semis are f

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WHO INVENTED THE DOUBLE TENOR

My understanding, it was Bertie Marshall who Invented the Double Tenor, but since we have so many eye witnesses and Ah hear this and Ah hear that I would like to know who invented the Double tenor. Now I know Bertie has his Styling with the FAC on th

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Semi Final round of the Digicel Groovy Soca Monarch Competition artist list.

Greetings from the Caribbean Prestige Foundation for the Performing Arts (CPF).
The Artistes qualifying to participate in the Semi Final round of the Digicel Groovy Soca Monarch Competition drew for positions today at Digicel IMAX.
Below is the order

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Mom, 15, shot dead ....An avid lover of steelpan

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - A mother of a six-week-old girl. An aspiring interior designer. An avid lover of steelpan.

All these things, and so much more, described 15-year-old Aleah Cain who was brutally gunned down on Tue

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The UK Pan Tuners Guild honors their Master Tuners

© by Robbie Joseph

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Spankin’ reigns at pan prelim

Trinidad Express Newspapers

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Tiger Tanks Fyzabad 4th Dimension added more light on Sunday night to the already well lit Petrotrin Sports Club, Guaracara Park, Pointe-a-Pierre with its performance of Richard Gittens’ arrangeme

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TOBAGO REGION Preliminaries: Small & Medium Conventional Steel Orchestras - Order of Appearance

TOBAGO REGION Preliminaries: Small & Medium Conventional Steel Orchestras - Order of Appearance - Trinidad & Tobago National Steelband Panorama 2014

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Tobago steel orchestras in the small and medium categories take their turn

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