WHAT IS THIS?: A vendor points to a space where a sink is supposed to be inside a booth at the Queen’s Park Savannah yesterday. Vendors are facing a myriad of problems with the booths provided to them by the NCC. PHOTO BY RYAN HAMILTON-DAVIS
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UNSPONSORED steelbands received over $2 million from the Ministry of Community Development, Culture and the Arts last week. The bands collected their cheques at the ministry’s St Ann’s office.
In prior news reports, steelbands were s
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Semi Finals Results for Medium Conventional Steel Orchestras
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NCC chairman Winston “Gypsy” Peters
National Carnival Commission (NCC) Winston “Gypsy” Peters made a quick run for the exit yesterday when confronted by irate regional Carnival representatives, upset by the significantly less subv
Read more…There is a kind of positive energy associated with Carnival and particularly with the steelband movement. Players survive on less sleep and exhibit discipline and high levels of productivity in order to learn their Panorama tune.
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Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The top fourteen small steel orchestras out of the thirty that made it into the semi-finals - now advance to the Final round of the Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama 2019 competition. The finals unfold on February 28.
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Zanda’s knowledge of rhythm, melody and harmony adds to the complexity of a band on the move as it primes itself for yet anoth
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Order of Appearance
Small Conventional Steelbands
This Saturday- Victoria Square, POS at 4:00pm
Large Steel Orchestras performance positions
Medium bands semi finals positioning:
1. Curepe Scherzando
2. Sangre Grande Cordettes
3. Couva Joylanders
4. Melodians
5. Pan Elders
6. St. Margaret's Super Stars
7. San City
8. Pamberi
9. Power stars
10. Valley Harps
11. Katzenjammers
12. S
Armed with a song (Hookin’ Meh) that has captured the spirit and imagination of the country like few have in the recent past, one has to wonder: what was in those “extra large garbage bags” being waved by fans from the high-rise
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Moko jumbies dance to the music of NGC Steel Xplosion as pannists perform before the judges for the preliminary round of Panorama at its Buccoo base.
NLCB Buccooneers, playing a Seion Gomez arrangement of Madness by Aaron “Voice” S
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - What do Panorama 2019 and the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) obsession with “the future of work” have in common? Everything. There he goes again, you say: “Pan–the greatest thing we do” and all
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Videographers, photographers, broadcasters and social media users (including members of the public) who intend to capture any aspect of work of mas use in any form of commercial intent directly or indirectly withou
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It has been a Panorama season marked by uncertainty—mainly financial—for several steel orchestras in the ‘Home of Pan,’ resulting in several bands previously registered to participate in the annual competition - subsequently
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Twenty-two medium conventional steel orchestras have completed the preliminary round of competition in the 2019 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama season. Judges took in the bands' performances over a few days at their res
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