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Unsponsored steelbands get support for Panorama 2K13
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Fifty unsponsored steel orchestras received cheques to help them prepare for Panorama 2013 from Scotiabank Trinidad and Tobago Foundation on Tuesday evening at Scotia Centre, Park Street, Port of Spain.
This year being the
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Lornshill Academy welcomes 30 steel drums
Stirling Observer
Lornshill’s steel drum band
Clackmannanshire, Scotland - Sounds of the Caribbean are coming to Clackmannanshire after Lornshill Academy welcomed 30 steel drums from the island of Trinidad last week.
The Ochil Steel Band will be fo
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Steelband history remembered in St. James
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It was an occasion for reminiscing by several elders of the steelband movement, an entity that represents the most interesting and inspiring developments in grass-roots musical creation and culture
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La Brea Nightingales get sponsorship from National Gas Company, along with Couva Joylanders
Trinidad & Tobago Newsday
NGC ‘tide’ lifts La Brea, Couva
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - After years of giving financial assistance to several bands throughout Trinidad and Tobago, the National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago (NGC) has decided to take
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Couva Joylanders gets new Pan complex
Trinidad Express Newspapers
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Players and management of Couva Joylanders Steel Orchestra are going into Panorama 2013 with new sponsorship from the National Gas Company (NGC).
As a result, the band will hold its practice sessi
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Speaking Of "Sweeping Changes": Updated "Blueprint For Steelpan Success" by George D. Goddard
Steel Drum/Pan Blueprint For Success Highlights
- ·The pan union should represent panists not steelbands. Steel bands should be registered (for-profit) corporations, whom union-represented panists would work for.
- ·The government would assist steelba
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WHAT WST MEAN TO YOU?
With the exception of Pan Times no one seem to be interested in adding anything for discussion unless it's the death of someone, is this what WST reach too? Come on people it's the involvement of our members that's going to keep WST as the foremos
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What do you think?
Desperadoes not making it to the finals in panorama this year was more about baptizing Andre White than the music that he arrange, he did a good job.
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A Call To End School Violence.
FROM: George D. Goddard
TO:The Entire Global Steelband and Steel Drum/Pan Community
Re: A Call To End School Violence - The “Twenty 6® Steelband and Pan Benefit CD” and the “Twenty 6® Steelband and Pan Benefit Concert” - Honoring the Sandy Hook V
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Funeral Service for Rudolph Durant (Clyde from Moods' father)
Funeral Service for Rudolph Durant is Friday December 21 2012.
J Foster & Phillip's Inc. 119-24 Linden Blvd Jamaica NY 11434 - between Merrick &Farmers Blvd.
Phone 718 526 5656
Viewing from 4-7 pm
Service 7-9 pm
Cremation 9:am Fresh pond Crematory
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the passing of Mr Rudolph Durant father of moods clyde durant
Mr Rudolph Durant one of the early backers of moods pan groove has pass details soon
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BIRDSONG BEGINS 2013 PANORAMA PREPARATIONS
Birdsong Steel Orchestra has chosen world renowned panist Andy Narell to compose and arrange its music in 2013 for the band’s 40th appearance at the Panorama competition.
Andy Narell’s return to the Panorama stage is the culmination of a relationsh
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Looking back: 2010-2019 -- "From Tiny Mites to Champions, CASYM’s tradition and legacy continue"
Brooklyn, New York - There are very few accolades that have not been bestowed on CASYM (Caribbean American Sports & Cultural Youth Movement, Inc.) Steel Orchestra and its parent organization for success of its unparalleled musical, educational and co
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Your Great Steelpan Music Performances for 2012
There were many great steelpan music performances all over the globe 2012.
What are your choices for great steelpan music performances of 2012?
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HARRY BELAFONTE: YELOW BIRD The story of Choucoune Stolen Legacy
...El Maestro Issa El Saieh performing “Choucoune” composed by Michel Mauleart Monton with lyrics from a poem by Oswald Durand. This song is also known as “Ti Zwazo.” It was later translated into the english “Yellow Bird.”
This slow meringue, perhaps
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Pan Trinbago Regional Elections Results 2012
Vernon Morancie has been re-elected Chairman of the Eastern Region while Gerard Mendez and Marie Toby were elected in the Northern and Tobago Regions respectively at Pan Trinbago’s Adjourned Triennial Regional Meeting on Sunday 16th December.
Regiona
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Carnival shake-up - "Groovy Soca Monday Night" steelband competition coming
Trinidad Express
THE Calypso Monarch competition will be held on Carnival Thursday and not the traditional Dimanche Gras Sunday night.
This was disclosed yesterday by recently appointed chairman of the National Carnival Commission (NCC) Allison Demas
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