Trinidad Newsday
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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On separating himself from the former executive board of Pan Trinbago "..if there was a fight between the players and the executive then as an executive member I would be standing on the wrong side. I am a player before anything else. It was one of
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(Originally published in the Trinidad Express)
..It will take many men with many balls to reclaim our heritage, to put this Humpty Dumpty together again....
I was pleasantly surprised when the anno
Laborie News
Andy Narell directs workshop participants
Professional and amateur musicians as well as music students from the USA, Australia and France have converged on Laborie for the third edition of the annual Laborie Steel Pan and Brasilian Percu
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INTERVIEW, NEWS, FROM THE MAGAZINE, JONATHAN SCALES
By Geoffrey Himes I Jan. 9, 2019
Béla Fleck knows a thing or two about establishing an identity in the jazz world while playing an unusual instrument.
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Arima, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Thieves climbed through a very small space between the roof and the wall at the Marsicans Steel Orchestra panyard and stole five chromed tenor pans from the band on Monday night.
That represents
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The ex-wife of the late calypsonian Merchant is calling for an audit of the Copyright Organisation of Trinidad and Tobago (COTT).
Ruthlyn Dixon Boxhill is making the call after receiving $400 in royalty payments for Merchant’s estate.
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REMEMBERED: Lord Woodbine
The Trinidadian music promoter, often referred to as the sixth Beatle, will
“All bands are practising. They started their preparation well before Christmas. “There would be judging in the various pan yards and we begin with the single pan bands and then we move on to the other categories which is the Small, Medium and Lar
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