In the year of our 25th Anniversary, 2018, Golden Hands suffered a major loss in the passing of the person who not only assisted our President, Franka Hills-Headley in founding this unique institution of ours but is responsible for the high technica
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A New York City transplant since Halloween, former Asheville-based steel pannist Jonathan Scales is closing in on 13 years with his eponymous Fourchestra and continuing to expand his already impressive skill set.
Newsday
"The Tobago bands were brilliant. The Tobago bands made a statement that aye, Tobago – we didn't come to play. I think the Tobago bands take the Panorama much more serious than the Trinidad bands. Myself and (Uptown Fascinators arranger) Oj
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Eighteen large steel orchestras are expected to participate in the Large category of the 2020 Trinidad and Tobago National Panorama competition. Preliminary judging is scheduled to begin in the respective pan yards of ban
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago, Pan in Schools Coordinating Council (PSCC), Multicultural Music Programme Unit (MMPU) and the Tobago House of Assembly, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, producers of the National Schools Panora
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...“We really wanted to focus on the music,” said Mandi Jackson, executive director of Music Haven. “We’re celebrating 10 years of collaboration of these organizations, but also the spirit of the day.”
The change f
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Kendall Williams, Marc Brooks & Odie Franklin are the 2020 Panorama arrangers of Skiffle Steel Orchestra - large band category. The 2020 Tune of choice: “Wrong Again.”
Kendall is also the arranger f
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Cultural Heritage
Preservation Agents of TT
Pan, the queen, the king, the supreme, was created, originated and manufactured in TT (1930s) and emerges as an innovation of high significance. Pan, a collective title for instruments
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The group of musicians from Coastal University South Carolina, front row are Dr James Robert Pendell, left, Dr Jesse Willis and Guyanese-born Dr Gillian Richards-Greaves. - Gary Cardinez
A group of musicians from Coastal Uni
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Uptown Fascinators Steel Orchestra out of sister isle Tobago bested thirteen co-competitors to clinch the championship and trophy in the 2020 Small conventional steel orchestra finals of the Trinidad and Tobago National Pano
Read more…Tobago’s Uptown Fascinators With Arranger Ojay Richards Capture Title
Uptown Fascinators Steel Orchestra out of sister isle Tobago bested thirteen co-competitors to clinch the championship and trophy in the 2020 Small conventional steel orchestra fi
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BPTT Renegades and BPTT will celebrate 50 years of sponsorship with a concent titled Beethoven Meets Renegades – A Classic Steel Experience at Queen’s Hall, St Ann's on January 20. -
BPTT and the BPTT Renegades Steel Orchestra are celebrating 50 ye
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Exuberance … Trinidadian calypsonian Aldwyn Roberts, AKA Lord Kitchener. Photograph: Ron Burton/Getty Images
Creole languages and culture can be loosely defined as those that have been mixed: a natural blending of influences over time to create a
Loop - Barbados
Fay Ann Lyons has stepped down as Chairman of the International Soca Monarch.
Lyons, who appointed to the helm of the competition, will no longer be involved in the annual competition.
Lyons told Loop she made the decision because s
Read more…OECS continues partnership with Entertainment and Sports Lawyer Carla Parris to demystify the legal and business aspects of carnival
Wednesday, January 15, 2020 — Trinidad and Tobago’s Carnival 2020 is here in all its glory with fetes underway, stee
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This list, of the greatest albums made by women between 1964 and the present, is an intervention, a remedy, a correction of the historical record and hopefully the start of a new conversation. Compiled by nearly 50 women from across NP
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NPR Music Playlist
Julie London: The artist who connected torch singing to teen angst, Julie London has influenced everyone from Annie Lennox to Lana Del Rey. She made Justin Timberlake cry a river, why isn't she in the Hall?
Janis Martin: The "My
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La Romaine Secondary School performs Kees Dieffenthaller's Savannah Grass at Hatters panyard, Lady Hailes Avenue, San Fernando in the preliminary round of the Junior Panorama Secondary School Competition on Tuesday. - Lincoln Holder
LA ROMAINE High
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