Tropicalfete Announces Postponement of Carnival Festival

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Tropicalfete Announces Postponement of Carnival Festival

Brooklyn, New York, USA - “Tropicalfete regrettably announces the postponement of their end of summer Carnival Festival, scheduled for September 11th at the Brooklyn Public Li

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Trumpeter Etienne Charles and his Creole Soul band bring blend of styles to jazz fest

Duante Beddingfield - Detroit Free Press

Charles was born into a musical family.

“My father played in a steel band and was a DJ,” he said, “and my mother came from a musical family and played records all the time. So there was always music in the ho

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Reboot -- Who Give Them the Okay? — A Brooklyn J’Ouvert Story -- by Garvin Blake

Most people claim Brooklyn J’Ouvert officially started in the late 1980s in Flatbush. But here’s Kitchener in 1974 singing “Who Give Them the Okay”, a tune about a J’Ouvert in Bedford Stuyvesant. Assembling on Fulton Street and Franklin Avenue, the

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“Shut-up and play yur pan” is not part of his DNA.- Meet Gregory Lindsay - Manager, Administrator, Panist - Up-Close!

“In my opinion, they are not represented as well as they ought to be. There is no Musician’s Union in this Republic, even though there are prominent examples in other jurisdictions. Accordingly, players are always left hanging out to dry; then, orche

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RAP ANNA -- I like RAP ANNA!!!

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TRINIDAD NFL PLAYER expected to make BIG WAVES in 2021 FOOTBALL SEASON starting on Sunday -- as a REAL TRINIDADIAN I am really looking forward to this ...

49ers roster: Javon Kinlaw can take a huge leap in 2021

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Trinidad Carnival 2022: To Be Or Not To Be? A Q&A With The Trinidad And Tobago Promoters Association

Forbes

Baz Dreisinger Contributor Lifestyle

What’s the opposite of a global pandemic?

Trinidad Carnival.

The ultimate life-affirming ritual, a celebration of freedom in its most distilled sense, the Caribbean’s largest Carnival has of course been on

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TROPICALFETE’S CARNIVAL FESTIVAL

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PanoGrama Entertainment keen on providing opportunities for youth

PanoGrama Entertainment (PE) is dedicated to the advancement of youths and their development. As a result, we have established a professional relationship with the University of the West Indies Mona Campus to provide training experience for interns s

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It’s West Indian Carnival Time In New York, But Without The Famous Parade

By NAN ET Editor

News Americas, BROOKLYN, NY, Fri. Sept. 3, 2021: For a second year, COVID-19 has side-lined the

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McLean Project for the Arts gets musical with 2021 festival lineup

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Trinidad and Tobago/US My Home pan video collab for Independence

Newsday - Julien Neaves

Etienne Charles conducting the band during the recording session. - Courtesy Maria Nunes

Veteran pan composer Mark Loquan has partnered with musician Etienne Charles, photographer Maria Nunes, and a US team for a video proje

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Holman to receive honorary doctoral degree from UWI

Michael Mondezie -Trinidad Express

Pannist Ray Holman says his upcoming presentation of an honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) by The University of the West Indies (The UWI) signals a growing respect for pan and the calypso artform.

“To me, this sign

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So THE PRESIDENT OF PAN TRINBAGO went on a show and boasted about having TWO ACCOUNTANTS on her EXECUTIVE ...

... she said that this was a historical achievement. But the accountants gave an ILLEGAL THIRTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLAR LOAN to one her friends in Pan Trinbago Politics. And the accountants paid ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS for a REHAB JOB of

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A LITTLE LORD NELSON

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Based on VERY PRIVATE INFORMED SOURCES: OCTOBER 31ST is going to be ELECTION DAY FOR PAN TRINBAGO

So we have 60 days of hard, bitter, unscrupulous, gutter sniping POLITICS COMING UP. The race has already boiled down to AQUIL VERSUS BEVERLEY.

ROBERT HERNANDEZ has ZERO CHANCE and all his candidacy will do is SPLIT THE VOTES and put BEVERLEY BACK IN

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Revisiting -- Steel Bands Plan Boycott of Brooklyn's West Indian Parade -- 2001 New York Times

New York Times

By Nichole M. Christian July 19, 2001

By the calendar, it is pan time in Brooklyn, the annual rite of summer when hundreds of Caribbean immigrants and their American-born children turn sidewalks, vacant lots -- any sliver of concrete

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Steel bands to present ‘Rainorama’ in Geneseo Lake

Members of Steel Alchemy, a steel drum band based in Piffard.

GENESEO – Three steel drum bands will bring the tones of the Caribbean to Conesus Lake on Wednesday.

The “Rainorama Concert” — it’s named for a Trinidadian calypso — is scheduled from 6:

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Gorillaz release surprise new EP ‘Meanwhile’, celebrating Notting Hill Carnival - featuring the steelpan

The three-track EP features AJ Tracey, Jelani Blackman and Alicaì Harley

by Will Richards

Gorillaz live. CREDIT: Luke Dyson

The EP’s title track was previewed at the band’s recent sold out shows at The O2 in London, one of which was attended sol

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Understanding the Constitution/Constitutional Reform with Lesedi Felix. Webinar discussion. Please Join us.

Understanding the Constitution/Constitutional Reform with Lesedi Felix

According to Mr. Felix, we can't really ask to amend what we don’t understand, so firstly we must thoroughly go through all the articles of Pan Trinbago's constitution. He has sta

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