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The Silencing Of The African Griot - CALYPSO, LIKE PAN, IS ALSO IN DANGER!!!

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 All Stars and Katzenjammers Steel Orchestras retain Championship Titles

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

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Congratulations to San Juan East Side & Arima Golden Symphony - 2012 Panorama Champions

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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Good vibes being felt at Renegades camp

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My Second Pilgrimage to the Mecca of Pan

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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Republic Bank donates $2.8M to Guyana steel pan competition

Guyana, S.A. - Republic Bank Limited on Thursday handed over a cheque valued $2,825,000 to the Culture, Youth and Sport Ministry to be used to reward bands participating in the 2012 National Panorama competition slated for the Cliff Anderson Sports H

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Congratulations to Trinidad All Stars & Katzenjammers - 2012 Panorama Champions

When Steel Talks extends congratulations to Trinidad All Stars Steel Orchestra and Katzenjammers Steel Orchestra - the large and medium band winners for Panorama 2012

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Comments on the 2012 Panorama Results

The results from the preliminary rounds are in. Big Up to all the panorama participants...

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How Does Music Speak To You - Panorama 2012

 How does the music speak to you, what do you think "our prophets of pan" are saying this year - panorama 2012?  

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Antigua’s “Moully De Iron Man” of Hell’s Gate Steel Orchestra, Passes

St. John’s, Antigua & Barbuda, W.I. - ....“Moully” served the Hell’s Gate Steel Orchestra with genuine commitment and dedication for over forty years. He was a brother, father, friend and inspirer to all the members of Hell’s Gate.

 

“Moully” managed

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Pick the first three in the finals of Panorama 2012.

The day after THE ARCHBISHOP OF PAN and the PROPHET OF PAN meet the JUDGE OF PAN there is weeping and gnashing of teeth, ah few middle fingers and some obscene language but as they say the show must go on, so lets see who can pick the first three ban

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About calling it dumb when it is

About calling it dumb when it is

By Les Slater


Sometimes we try too hard to convince folks where we're coming from about this or that matter. A case in point being the recent appearance of Mitt Romney before a conservative gathering in Washington,

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NYU Steel and Sonatas at the 2012 PAS KoSA NYU Weekend of Percussion

New York, USA - Over the February 11-12, 2012 weekend, New York University hosted the 4^th annual PAS (Percussive Arts Society)-KoSA (KoSA International Percussion Workshops)-NYU Weekend of Percussion at the University’s Frederick Loewe Theater. The e

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Pan, police, pain

By Keith Subero

Story Created: Feb 12, 2012 - Trinidad Express

Pan Trinbago, after the fracas at the pan semi-finals, may want to walk away from its advertised boast that it has organised 50 years of steelband competitions.

The incident has proven to

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Panorama People's Choice flawed

 

Panorama People’s Choice flawed Friday, February 17 2012 THE EDITOR: On Tuesday February 12, 2012 on one of the local TV channels, Pan Trinbago conducted its annual draw for the positioning of bands for the finals in three categories this year.

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Just Putting It Out There.

On the eve of Steelbands biggest show on earth I will like to wish all the bands best of LUCK, I say Luck because for the last couple of years Pan People through-out the world did not feel that the best band won, what we saw was a Bias toward a certa

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Power Stars Ready for Panorama Final 2012

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Glenroy Joseph - Pan Enthusiast, Pan & Calypso Media Cataloger & Collector- speaks on Pan & Panorama 2012

Glenroy Joseph - Pan Enthusiast, Pan & Calypso Media Cataloger & Collector- speaks on Pan & Panorama 2012
 

Global - In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks - Pan Enthusiast, Carnival, Pan & Calypso Media Cataloger & Collector - Glenroy R. Jo

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Tobago 2012 Panorama Results - Large & Small Conventional Steel Orchestras and Single Pan Bands

Tobago, W.I. -  The THA (Tobago House of Assembly) Pan Champs 2012 competition took place last evening, February 14, at the Garden Side Car Park, Scarborough in Trinidad’s sister isle of Tobago.

 

Seventeen bands competed in three categories: Large C

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In about the yr 2000 I came back to carnival and heard renegades play Carnival is Over

Since then, I have started a steel band here in Australia, and regularly try to find a recording that must have been made by somebody, probably to do with Renegades, of Kitch's ' Carnival is Over'

Renegades played it after carnival and panorama, in t

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