Minister slams Pan Trinbago in Trinidad and Tobago national news paper

Minister raps Pan Trinbago

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Describing the skeletal structure as a “white elephant,” a visibly irate Peters said: “Pan Trinbago has been constructing this headquarters since God knows when. They got the land for free; they go

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The British Association of Steelbands 12th Annual Awards

The British Association of Steelbands 12^th Annual Awards
 

London, ENGLAND - The BAS (British Association of Steelbands) Awards Dinner event celebrated its 12^th year in existence on Saturday 4^th December 2010, since its initiation in 1999 in the humb

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Panman/Film maker Dalton Narine picks up Award

Panman/Film maker Dalton Narine picks up Award
 

California, USA - Dalton Narine, producer/director of “Mas Man Peter Minshall,” recently picked up his fourth award for Best Documentary at the New York International Film Festival Award Ceremony in Be

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St Kitts Invaders

I'm trying to find information about the Invaders steel band that was formed in Newtown St Kitts in the 1950s. Old photos especially :-) 

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National Junior Steelband Festival 2010: Results Trinidad and Tobago

Performing for Trinidad & Tobago's 2010 Junior Steelband FestivalTrinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Results are available for the 14th Biennial National Junior Steelband Music Festival held at the Jean Pierre Complex in Port-of-Spain and the Rudranath Capilde

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Robert Greenidge + Steelpan + Xmas = “A Coral Reefer Christmas” - A WST CD Review

Global -The steelpan instrument, Christmas and Robert Greenidge = “A Coral Reefer Christmas.”  What more could one ask for in terms of a special music item for the season? And if that’s not enough, Robert brings a star musical cast to the table on th

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Panorama World Cup 2010

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Bowei keeps Steelpan flag flying in Nigeria

Nigeria - That the second annual Secondary School Steel Band Competition in Lagos, Nigeria came off at all, is itself testimony to a love of the steelband culture and art form, embodied in the personage of Nigerian Bowie Sonnie Bowei. Exactly four ye

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Nigeria Steelpan Festival for Secondary Schools

Nigeria - The second annual Secondary School Steel Band Competition was held in Lagos, Nigeria on November 23 and featured steel orchestras from seven schools. The brainchild of steelpan entrepreneur Chief Bowie Sonnie Bowei, the steelband competitio

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Unremembered Panists

Who Remember Kelvin Hart, one of the First Ping Pong Champions in apx: 1966

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Ease up on Phase II

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Minister knocks Panorama: It has killed pan

Minister knocks Panorama: It has killed pan


Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Minister of Arts and Multiculturalism, Winston Peters, says Panorama, the annual national steelband competition, has "killed" the steelpan and its scope needs to be broadened.

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PP Goverment supporting Phase II in battle with PoS Mayor

Govt supporting Phase 11 in battle with PoS Corp By COREY CONNELLY Sunday, December 5 2010 click on pic to zoom in « prev photo next photo » Port-of-Spain Mayor Louis Lee Sing’s “newness” in the post may have accounted for his unwillingness to al

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Who was the Cunumunu (or Cunumunus!!) --- who got rid of the Pan on the Plane @#!$#!

 

Lord,

 

I always wonder exactly WHO was the Cunumunu in the government authority, who decided that there was no need to put back the Pan on the fleet of aircraft owned wholly and solely by the government of Trinidad and Tobago.  It is so painful,

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Panorama still pan’s showpiece

Panorama still pan’s showpiece

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Panorama Total Championships - Trinidad and Tobago

Steelband	Wins	Years
Desperadoes	10	1966, 1970, 1976, 1977, 1983, 1985, 1991, 1994, 1999, 2000
Renegades	9	1982, 1984, 1985, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997
Trinidad All Stars	6	1973, 1980, 1981, 1986, 2002, 2007
Phase II Pan Groove	5	1987, 1

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National Junior Steelband Festival 2010 Finalists

When Steel Talks extends congratulations to all the finalist of the Trinidad and Tobago 2010 National Junior Steelband Festival.

The Ministry of Education’s Pan in the Classroom Unit, in collaboration with the Pan in Schools Coordinating Council hosts

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Integrating The Three Elements of Carnival, Steelpan, Calypso and Mas - The 3rd International Conference on Steelpan

The 3rd International Conference on Steelpan Author: Louise C. F. Shah Nostalgia Steetband London - The 3rd International Conference on Steelpan witnessed a paradigm shift in intellectual debate on the carnival arts as compared to the first held in

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A Message to the When Steel Talks Family - Global Steelpan Community Expands

A Message to the When Steel Talks Family

One great global steelpan music family and experience under an internet pan groove

 

Global - Hi WST family:  We have some good news.  You are about to get an additional 6000 steelpan music loving brothers an

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EMPTY OIL DRUM MAKE MOST NOISE!

I have learnt that it is better to remain silent and be thought of as a fool than to open your mouth and remove doubt from people's mind. Many cultural icons in the steelpan industry have learnt that from your's truly in the past and many more will b

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