I was tuning pans yesterday when a young student asked, "Mr Gettes, are you the only Jewish Pan tuner on the planet?" I realized i had no idea, had never really thought about it.
I am wondering if any WST members know of any other Jewish Pan tuners?
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Castries, St. Lucia, W.I. - Junior pan groups from across the island will converge on the grounds of the National Cultural Centre on Sunday for the Junior Panorama. The event which is part of the ongoing National Arts Festival will feature eight gro
Trinidad Express Newspapers:
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Prime Minster Kamla Persad-Bissessar played mas yesterday but not with any of the big bands such as Tribe or Harts.
Instead, the Prime Minister decided to play traditional sailor mas with the n
Read more…St. Vincent & The Grenadines, W.I. - The Pan Against Crime (PAC) Programme, the brain child of Prime Minister, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves was launched on February 20th 2008. Under the guidance of Godfred Pompey-Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Nationa
Read more…There was amplification for the "play de devil" bands beating their biscuit tins, two sets of Tassa drummers appeared thay got amplification, But when our National Instrument came across the stage there was NOTHING for them. Four ot of the steel orc
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Pennsylvania, USA - The region's best steel drum bands will take the stage March 26 in the sixth annual Lincoln Park Steel Drum Festival, headlined by Liam Teague.
The festival is set for Monday, March 26, at 7:30 p.m. in Lincoln Park's 750-seat th
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Written by TAIWO OLADOKUN
Nigerian Tribune
TAIWO OLADOKUN writes on the synergy between Nigeria and Trinidad aimed at earning millions from carnivals.
The synergy started with the participation of Trinidad and Tobago in the 2011 Abuja Carnival and
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Havana, February 21 (Prensa Latina) Saeed Bowman, 11, contrasts with his greatness to play the steelband, a musical instrument from Trinidad and Tobago, which he has played since he was seven.
Invited to the International Book F
Dr. Jit Sukha Samaroo - The Man - The Arranger - The Composer
Jit Sukha Samaroo was born on 24 February, 1950 in the village of Surrey, Lopinot, one of the most elevated valleys in Trinidad’s Northern Range. This valley was settled in 1805 b
Read more…Do you think that the 'playing field" was the same for all the bands that perform in the Panorana finals last nite, seeing that some had the benifit of the two stands full with spectators and others had to perform when all the spectators went home?
Read more…Phase II has enough seconds for them not to question if the number 2 has any effect on them, after all they claim the number 2, everytime someone calls their name there it is again the number 2. If you have to be associated with a number you better c
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Guyana, S.A. - At 72, Guyana’s best known panist Roy Geddes is still as passionate about steel pan music as he was when he was just 14 years old and developed a liking for the music form that originated in Trinidad & Tobago.
Geddes, w
Read more…I HAVE been nursing a not-so-quiet anger since last Sunday's Panorama Semi-finals, and no, it has nothing to do with Despers being omitted from the finals, although I feel "a how" about that. I have asked fellow pa
Read more…Kaieteur News
Guyana, S.A. - Sweet, sweet steelpan music echoed through the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) last Sunday evening as the 2012 Republic Bank Mashramani Pan-o-rama Steel Band Competition delivered in full throttle, another evening of sp
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian:
San Fernando, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Spectators and masqueraders left the streets of San Fernando disappointed after police commanded an abrupt halt to all pan and night mas on Carnival Monday Night. Two Pan sides and f
On reading the following article, it should become obvious that there is a deliberate attempt to remove the GRIOT - the storyteller - from the village. As we see the elimination of "culture" from Carnival, in favor of "capitalism", both the steelband
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - ....Twenty-one steel orchestras - ten in the medium band category and eleven in the large category - regaled steelpan lovers with music, in an event that brought the curtains down on yet another year of determined and fierc
When Steel Talks extends congratulations to Duvone Stewart and BJ Marcelle, the winning arrangers of San Juan East Side (Single Pan Band) and Armina Golden Symphony Steel Orchestras (Small Band respectively.
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Hello once again WST Community!
Last year I made my first pilgrimage to the Mecca of Pan and had the opportunity to write about my experiences over the two month period I spent in Trinidad and my first Panorama. Since returning home I longed to retur
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