Johann Chuckaree's Indigisounds redefines the national instrument
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - At the age of 29, Johann Chuckaree, runs different businesses and juggles that with a demanding performance schedule. His advice
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Components of Mas and Calypso will be added to the National Panorama Small Steel Orchestra Finals at Skinner’s Park, San Fernando, on Thursday 28 February, from 7:00 p.m., making it a total Carnival experience.
Peters said to the gathered pannists, “That eyesore that we have going up on the highway...that should never be. I am one to tell them, and I told the president that too, I said the day I become the Minister of Culture in this country again...if Pan
In our classrooms we have children who will become proud professionals but there are also the dancers, athletes, tailors, artists, mechanics, pannists, and costume designers. But our education system has lost touch with a large secti
ON Saturday, March 2 twenty-one members of Pantime will travel to Dominica to join eight members of Pan in Harmony for a friendship tour titled ‘Unity in Pan’. The presence of Pantime Steel Orchestra is also expected to help re
“I saw the festival as a great generation point for the steel band.” said Junior, whose band had never won during his captaincy. That role seemed to be tailor-made for Edwin, a younger sibling by 20 years or so.
In 1982 the contributions of Trinidad All Stars to the steelband movement were recognised by the Government of Trinidad & Tobago with the presentation of a national award – the Humming Bird Medal (Gold). Four years later, the band was again honoured
A Panorama Memory... Founded by Patrick Arnold in 1955, Our Boys stunned the Tobago steelband fraternity in 1974 when it changed its Panorama tune from Sparrow’s ‘Miss Mary’ two weeks before the Panorama competition to Shadow’s ‘Bassman’ and ran away
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - This was not just a legal loss in the courts, it was also a severe “beat-down” for the new Pan Trinbago executive in the eyes of the public. They were savaged and severely criticized for