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When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family and friends of Yvette Rennie
When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family and friends of Yvette Rennie, president of J'Ouvert City International on the passing of her son, Kwame. Please accept our sympathy.
Read more…Ray Holman & Guillermo Rubalcaba - Voz Rubalcaba Plenty Lovin'
Read more…Despers streams on Caziq - Steelband joins online music outlet
Trinidad Newsday
Don Carrington, of Caziq online music streaming service, at Desperadoes mas band launch on Friday. PHOTO BY GARY CARDINEZ
Desperadoes Steel Orchestra is set to take pan into the realm of online music streaming via Caziq.
This was re
Read more…MALICE IN THE PALACE - Featuring Pan, Panists & Pandemonium: Is Panorama Driven Apart by Civil War?
The art, the dance, the Pan - When will they reappear?
by Dalton Narine
Global - A Trojan horse has invaded our annual ritual, just like that.
I had planned on writing a piece about Pan and the instrument’s supposed loneliness in the Mas (The Ca
Read more…Pan needs sponsorship for survival: Southern Marines bandleader insists!!!
Newsday January 25, 2019
He said players were not a separate and independent entity and were NOT the most important part of the steelband but there were justifiable reasons the players must be incentivised through the steelbands.
“Once th
Read more…Arima All Stars tuner hammers out phonic pan
Trinidad Newsday
Pan tuner Andy Neils works on the phonic pan, recording the notes on a computer, at Arima All Stars panyard in Malabar. PHOTO BY AYANNA KINSALEFEELING trapped by the limited range of the middle section of the single pan ensemble,
Read more…[Despite the BEVERELY LIES]: Unsponsored bands feel the pinch
Trinidad Guardian 1/26/2019
"According to Keith Simpson, manager of St James Tripolians Steel Orchestra, most of the 163 bands going up for Panorama are unsponsored, and just about 20 of them have corporate sponsors
Read more…Earl Richards: Yuh eh put up a TOPIC in a real long time. And everytime you put up a TOPIC Pan Lovers does go GAGA and give a MILLION responses!!!
COMMON MAN!!!
PANORAMA FEVER!!! SUPERBOWL FEVER!!! BEVERLEY FEVER!!!
But like yuh posting art gone astray
Single Pan Prelims from day to day
And ah HIGH VALUE poster like you
Have NOTHING TO SAY ....
Read more…More PROMISES from BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE: "Time to for pan to create wealth!!!"
Trinidad Guardian 1/26/2019 Charles Kong Soo
NAH PROMISE ME -- JUST GIH ME AM RIGHT AWAY (Shortshirt)!!!
She said when looking at the pan movement, there was a new dynamic with different categories of youth participating. The organisa
Read more…Pan and mas, through Desperadoes eyes
Trinidad Newsday
“The steelbands concentrated then on masquerading as ‘Sailors’ and ‘African Warriors’. By the late 1950’s, however, a few steelbands began to display original costumes and focus on ‘pretty mas’ such as ... ‘Noah’s Ark’ in 1959 by
Read more…Well ah hear through the grapevine that some MAJOR DISSENT is beginning to emerge in some PAN YARDS as the influx of young players are starting to demand YOUNGER ARRANGERS ...
... and with Duvone Stewart representing the CHANGE OF GUARD in the NORTH and THE THREE AMIGOS representing in the SOUTH -- some OLD HEADS sure to get SHAKE OUT THE TREE in the near future.
Read more…Single Pan Champs, Newtown Playboyz will defend their crown after all.- Panorama 2019 update
by Sharmain Baboolal
But it will not be with an Akiba Joseph’s arrangement of Tambu’s No No we eh going home.”
Instead, the tune will be arranged by two players Aaron Perreira and Richie Joseph with some help from Tony Williams.
While Keiron Valent
When all else fails, Iron Love prevails.- Keith Diaz sighted - Panorama 2019 chronicles
by Sharmain Baboolal
Keith Diaz can attest to that. The former President of Pan Trinbago, the man who is blamed for the bankruptcy of the annual Panorama competition was captured on Wednesday as he lovingly embraced his iron dearly during a break in
Panorama 2019 Performances
Arima All Stars Steel Orchestra performs for the judges at the Trinidad and Tobago National Single Pan Panorama Preliminaries 2019. They played "Different Me", a composition of Jovan James, sung by 5 Star Akil. The band's arranger is Andy A. Neils.
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Ramsey-Moore: Pan more than money and Panorama
Trinidad Newsday
PANTASTIC: Members of New Age Trendsetter of Enterprise, Chaguanas, enjoy their moment before 2019 Panorama preliminary judges with their performance of Lord Kitchener’s Kaka Roach. PHOTO BY LINCOLN HOLDER
MORE recognition must be gi
Read more…An Opportunity for Pan
by Wesley Gibbings
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Let’s face it, notwithstanding the severe difficulties currently being faced by the organisation with overall responsibility for t
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