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Pan Trinbago president Beverly Ramsey-Moore said despite all the challenges facing the organisation, she and her team would find a way to make this year’s Panorama competition and experience a success.
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Read more…Nadia Batson is moved to tears of joy at Trinidad All Stars panyard after hearing her 2019 hit "So Long" being played by the iconic steel orchestra.
The steelband movement has lost yet another icon with the passing of Dr. Clifford Alexis.
Mrs. Beverley Ramsey-Moore, President of Pan Trinbago, has expressed her deepest condolences to his immediate family and that of the steelpan fraternity. Mrs. R
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When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family and friends of Dr, Clifford Alexis.
more on Dr, Clifford Alexis.
Read more…Winston Vallie says:
Yesterday I heard the chairman of the NCC making statements on the radio and was shocked. This man is saying pantrinbago owes the government and so let them pay the players because the government has no intention of paying play
Read more…Last Friday, reigning Soca Monarch Aaron “Voice” St Louis announced he will not be defending his crown. He said in a release that he had new goals now, and “competing is not one of them.” He added that his biggest goal now was “to do my part to have
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This Spring, we are thrilled to bring you a new Steel (Pan) Band Percussion Ensemble for high school and middle school students, led by Academy percussion faculty and Mason School of Music Graduate candidate David Singhaus. Repertoire will focus on
Read more…Martin Daly - republished with, the expressed permission of: the Author
This column is no longer a voice in the wilderness. I now have powerful company on the public record. In the Newsday of 15 January this year, Mayor of San Fernando, Junia Regrel
Read more…When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family and friends of Yvette Rennie, president of J'Ouvert City International on the passing of her son, Kwame. Please accept our sympathy.
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Don Carrington, of Caziq online music streaming service, at Desperadoes mas band launch on Friday. PHOTO BY GARY CARDINEZ
Desperadoes Steel Orchestra is set to take pan into the realm of online music streaming via Caziq.
This was re
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‘Dimes’ invents fusion vibe pan
Pan tuner Denzil "Dimes" Fernandez demonstrates his latest invention, the fusion vibe pan, in Laventilleon Friday.
In the field of pan tuning, Denzil “Dimes” Fernandez is a living legend.
Unassuming
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Pan tuner Andy Neils works on the phonic pan, recording the notes on a computer, at Arima All Stars panyard in Malabar. PHOTO BY AYANNA KINSALE
FEELING trapped by the limited range of the middle section of the single pan ensemble,
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“The steelbands concentrated then on masquerading as ‘Sailors’ and ‘African Warriors’. By the late 1950’s, however, a few steelbands began to display original costumes and focus on ‘pretty mas’ such as ... ‘Noah’s Ark’ in 1959 by
Read more…Arima All Stars Steel Orchestra performs for the judges at the Trinidad and Tobago National Single Pan Panorama Preliminaries 2019. They played "Different Me", a composition of Jovan James, sung by 5 Star Akil. The band's arranger is Andy A. Neils.
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by Sharmain Baboolal
Keith Diaz can attest to that. The former President of Pan Trinbago, the man who is blamed for the bankruptcy of the annual Panorama competition was captured on Wednesday as he lovingly embraced his iron dearly during a break in
by Sharmain Baboolal
But it will not be with an Akiba Joseph’s arrangement of Tambu’s No No we eh going home.”
Instead, the tune will be arranged by two players Aaron Perreira and Richie Joseph with some help from Tony Williams.
While Keiron Valent
The art, the dance, the Pan - When will they reappear?
by Dalton Narine
Global - A Trojan horse has invaded our annual ritual, just like that.
I had planned on writing a piece about Pan and the instrument’s supposed loneliness in the Mas (The Ca
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PANTASTIC: Members of New Age Trendsetter of Enterprise, Chaguanas, enjoy their moment before 2019 Panorama preliminary judges with their performance of Lord Kitchener’s Kaka Roach. PHOTO BY LINCOLN HOLDER
MORE recognition must be gi
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Let’s face it, notwithstanding the severe difficulties currently being faced by the organisation with overall responsibility for t
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