When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to the legendary tuner Bertram “Birch” Kelman
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But from the first month things start to go wrong when she fired the PRO on racial grounds. And up to now there is NO REPLACEMENT. Ah whole year gone with ZERO OUTREACH to CORPORATE TRINIDAD. And that is where SANDRA AWAII had her strength.
After tha
Read more…It’s Celebration time for Ray’s first love, PAN
by Dalton Narine
Global - I feel pretty, now that I’ve flirted with Holman’s take on his lover boy spin about Pan, the new world’s glorious instrument. Ray Holman Holman lights a fire under the instrum
Read more…I was happy to see that KEITH DIAZ showed up to pay his respects to CURTIS PIERRE.
In general, I thought that the MEDIA COVERAGE was scant and very little appreciation was expressed for the GREAT CONTRIBUTION that CURTIS PIERRE made to the WORLD OF P
Read more…Canada - The performance of ‘Esso Tripoli Steelband’, Trinidad and Tobago’s representative of the nation musical heritage for Canada’s centennial celebration ‘Expo 67’ in Montreal was a watershed moment in North American culture and arts. Canada's Ca
Read more…The SandPaper
Long Beach Island, New York, USA - Sometimes there’s traffic on the GSP,
but I love this island so its worth it to me.
Speed limit here’s only 35,
that’s why you gotta find a bike to ride
So many people you can meet,
and plenty of
B U D G E T - The most repetitive word on the lips of this sitting executive of Pan Trinbago.
Why is this sitting executive of Pan Trinbago continually bullying the government of the day and painting a flawed picture of the responsible minister in t
Read more…Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Ramsey-Moore: Pan fraternity treated unfairly
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago President Beverly Ramsey-Moore has warned the public that the organisation, the local governing body for the steelpan, will not be ins
Read more…PAN TRINBAGO get ah little taste (35,000 TT) of the EXPAT MONEY this year with a PAY PER VIEW by WACK. So they going all in for PANORAMA 2020 with PAY PER VIEW looking to bring in a windfall. I could stand by THE PLAN but they need to deliver a QUALI
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by Dave Segal - the Stranger
Ebony Steel Band, "Tanzmusik (Jump Up)" (OM Swagger)
Now in their 50th year, London-based Ebony Steel Band accepted Record Collector Magazine editor Ian Shirley's challenge to cover several Kraftwerk tracks with their a
The Seven Ages of Patience, directed by Katie Posner, takes us through various stages in the life of Patience, a midwife determined to contribute to the happiness of her neighbours, be it through medical aid before the NHS kicked in, or orchestrati
Read more…Opinion: by Markus Garceran
New York, USA - “It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”
- FDR
I remember three years ago, Jahlani and I launched a project...movemen
Read more…Guardian September 28, 2019
"Questions are now being raised about the Ministry of Community Development, Culture and the Arts' (MCDCA) decision to fork out $4,000 on a cake while ministry workers claim they had been facing problems i
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Grenada, W.I. - He is a first-time national champion steelband Panorama arranger; youthful, yet at the age of thirty-one a “young” veteran in his craft of musicianship, with a history of more than twenty years of involvement with the steelband art
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Guardian September 24th, 2019
"Dr Hollis Liverpool also known as Chalkdust has become the second calypsonian to receive the country’s highest award in the nation’s history.
The list of awardees was released yesterday and Dr Live
Read more…RONALD LEWIS: Yuh full of OPINIONS on PAN AND POLITICS!!! I am inviting you to GIVE UP THE TRIVIA and come and join some REAL DISCUSSIONS about PAN PROGRESS.
ALL AH WE IS ONE FAMILY!!!
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