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A Real home for Panorama and Carnival
Ace photographer and journalist Mark Lyndersay says - This is how you build the Grandstand to view a Carnival. What say you?
Brazil’s Epic Carnival: Scenes from Rio’s Sambadrome
Ricardo Moraes / REUTERS
Revelers of Mocidade Independente samba school
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Revisted - How Pan (and Neville Jules) Saved My Life
by Dalton Narine
Global - I met Pete many, many nightmares ago at a Veterans Administration (VA) hospital in New York City. He’d left his legs in a booby trap in Vietnam. So they doped him up to alleviate chronic pain. When doctors stopped the meds
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Revisted -- Carnival TV to the Rescue - Steelpan on the Internet for Trinidad Carnival 2013
Global - Trinidad and Tobago has a beautiful and unique carnival. Trinidad and Tobago also has no shortage of bureaucracy and bacchanal, surrounding its annual event. There are issues associated with the carnival that just leaves one’s head shaking.
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Happy Birthday, Bertie Marshall (Oh, even when he was alive he could care less)
by Dalton Narine
Global - Les Slater, chair of the T&T Folk Arts Institute in New York and a former Highlanders arranger, is hard-pressed to bring up much of his childhood without including “big brother” Bertie Marshall. The emblematic tuner served
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Where is Panorama at 50 years?
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - ....Lingering in the minds of the pan enthusiasts are other burning questions as the race climaxes: What is this Panorama milestone first prize? How many notches up will pan move following this era, given the next 50-year sh
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Victimization or Oversight
As a young member of the Katzenjammers Steel orchestra I find it passing strange that our orchestra was left out of two events recently held by Pantrinbago and I am wondering if we were wilfully left out because our Manager Mrs. Beverley Ramsey – Moo
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Pan Trinbago pays tribute to stalwarts
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago, in celebrating its 50th anniversary, paid tribute to some of Trinidad and Tobago’s outstanding arrangers, tuners and steel bands in a gala awards ceremony at Cascadia Hotel, St Ann’
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Phase II for Nigeria - As part of Panorama first prize...
Trinidad Express Newspapers
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - National Panorama 2013 winner (Large Band) Petrotrin Phase II Pan Groove will travel to Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria, in November as part of its first prize winnings.
This announcement was m
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Bomb & Groovy Soca Steelband Competitions Results - 2013 Panorama Season
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Trinidad All Stars Steel Orchestra took the top honors at Pan Trinbago’s Northern Region J’Ouvert Bomb Competition. The Pan event which has become a steelpan music staple on Carnival Monday morning was staged at Victoria Squ
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Work of calypso great Maestro to be reviewed
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“Maestro”
Brooklyn, New York - Calypso will be the focus of the next Trinidad & Tobago Folk Arts Institute forum at Medgar Evers College, when a panel discussion explores the phenomenal work and legacy
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LAUNCH of CARIBnet!! NEW INITIATIVE FOR THE LIVE INTERACTION OF PANNISTS,
A message from Jacqueline Sealey
LAUNCH of CARIBnet!! NEW INITIATIVE FOR THE LIVE INTERACTION OF PANNISTS, from Northern Illinois University (NIU), The University of Trinidad & Tobago (UTT), and, the UK at the Headquarters of JANET, at Didcot in Oxf
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It's a music festival, not a riot (Panorama semi-finals) - by Gary Aboud
Trinidad Express Newspapers
As usual, I attended the Panorama semi-finals and year after year I am shocked at the police brutality.
Unnecessary situations of violence haunt and mar our festivities for innocent supporters.
Every year supporters
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Where is the Pan in Carnival? - Pelham Goddard asks
In a letter to When Steel Talks -
After again witnessing an almost complete domination by the DJ trucks, veteran and champion arranger for Trinidad and Tobago's Exodus Steel Orchestra asked this question , "Where is the Pan in Carnival?"
Pelham said,
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The Hope of T&T - Sapna: the Dream Song of the Carnival
by Dalton Narine
Global - If, as DJs have circulated, Carnival 2013 was regaled by some 4,000 festival songs, then the dream of the whole lot has been Sapna, a bit of cross-genre music in which our culture is courted by a love story and treated with
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Success Stars to perform at US Black Arts Festival
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Success Stars Pan Sounds of Laventille has been invited back to Atlanta, Georgia, USA for more performances, after leaving patrons speechless when they performed at Centennial Olympic Park last
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Gigs (What can pan players do to get more gigs?)
In this post I would like to hear feedback from players who have experience of doing gigs. First, check out this brief story.
A prominent band leader was on a gig with Big Sand last year and he said that for every gig like this where the band ticks a
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Leon “Foster” Thomas - Drumming for 2013 Steelband Panorama Champion Phase II Pan Groove
He is one of the most dynamic talents out of the Caribbean. Hailing from Trinidad and Tobago, Leon “Foster” Thomas has already left an indelible mark in the music arena as a performer, recording artist and songwriter. Today, When Steel Talks (WST) ha
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Lack of Smart Judges:
IT IS TIME PANTRINBAGO INCLUDE FOREIGN MUSICIANS IN THE PANORAMA FINALS. AS THEY HAVE DONE IN THE MUSIC FESTIVALS. THIS WILL ELIMINATE JUDGES WHO HAVE THEIR OWN HOME TOWN BANDS AND ARRANGERS
They should stop throwing out the high and low scores and a
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Photographers protest high fees to cover mas, pan & more
The Trinidad Guardian
It’s wrong and unethical
Contrary to popular belief—and, apparently, the belief of Carnival special interest groups—photographers don’t make a lot of money from covering Carnival. This year, Carnival stakeholders—the Nation
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