His father, small as he was, held him by his neck and threatened him the day he declared that he wanted to arrange music too. Jit Samaroo did not give Amrit an easy passage into his world. He made him earn it because he knew it was no easy road. Nev
Read more…Pan Trinbago Inc. T.C. will launch this year’s Panorama competitions on Saturday January 19, 2019, at bp Renegades Pan Theatre, Charlotte Street, Port of Spain, from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm.
This year’s competition is in “Tribute to Our Cultural Icons”
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Winston "Gypsy" Peters
NATIONAL Carnival Commission (NCC) chairman Winston “Gypsy” Peters has made it clear that he had nothing to do with the appointment of his niece soca star Fay Ann Lyons-Alvarez as the new chair of the International Soca Monar
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“We are going around in circles, spending large sums. Panorama started in 1963 and in 2019, we still have some of the same problems. We have not really evolved as we should have. We have not sat down and studied this event as a single event. Pulled
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Dr Nyan Gadsby Dolly, minister of Community Development, Culture and the Arts.
Community Development, Culture and the Arts Minister Nyan Gadsby-Dolly says the Government has allocated just about $142 million for this year’s Carnival.
Speak
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The 2018 Single Pan Champions Newtown Playboyz will not be defending their crown in 2019..and will deprive thenselves of a three peat.They first won the title in 2017 mere months after the band was formed. It was a breakaway fro
Read more…It is sad to see how some people are doing all in their power to divide and fragment the Steel band movement, and how the uninformed and ignorant are falling hook line and sinker into their sinister plot. The claim by the Pannist for a player's remit
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Arranger Michael Toby takes a handful of players through a practise session of Niala Blackman’s Iron Love at the Redemption Sound Setters Steel Orchestra pan threatre in Montgomery, Bethel, last Saturday. Photos by David Reid
With
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Beverley Ramsey-Moore
Beverly Ramsey-Moore, Pan Trinbago president, was adamant that in spite of grumbling by a number of pan players at a special meeting on Sunday, and others on social media, that Panorama is definitely on this y
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CALM BEFORE THE STORM: Pan Trinbago president Beverly Ramsey-Moore and external relations officer Dale Gulston are all smiles before the start of what turned out to be a very heated meeting yesterday at the CWU Hall in Port of Spain. PHOTO BY SUREAS
Trinidad Newsday
TWELVE students from the University of Minnesota, USA are currently in TT learning about pan and Caribbean history.
Hosted by Selwyn "Fruits" Williams, public relations officer of FCB Supernovas at the panyard in Lopinot, the univer
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In keeping with the watchwords "Get Up and Do It Yourself" we at birdsong have taken the initiative to fill the gap left by PanTrinbago's inability to pay players fees in a timely manner. We've raised our own funding and will be covering the player
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The sweet sounds of pan rang through the Holy Rosary Roman Catholic Church yesterday during a Trinidad All Stars Steel Orchestra’s 25th annual thanksgiving service.
The band’s junior orchestra pl
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FIVE-time medium band champion Pan Elders’ quest to successfully defend its title for 2019 is in jeopardy.
Bandleader Hollister Smith told Sunday Newsday that as of yesterday he did not even have 40 players in his band, “because eve
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - To the uninformed, Duvone Stewart can seem boastful.
Get to know him, though, and you’ll realise his apparent cockiness is really an affirmation of the greatness, he believes, he was destined t
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SAN Fernando Mayor Junia Regrello does not support the suggestion by captain of San City Steel Orchestra Aquil Arrindell to cut Panorama prize money so players could receive a stipend.
Regrello said it was he, as an alderman at the
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I read the words of recently elected Pan Trinbago president Beverly Ramsey-Moore promising to make our pan industry viable: “...We will ensure that that drum-making factory...will bring in millions, upon millions, upon millions so th
by Sharmain Baboolal
Chronicles of a Panorama
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Acclaimed tuner, master craftsman, “Birch” Kelman, will be out for the carnival season. He’s recoverin
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