By Attillah Springer
Dear Winston, the Immortal,
Now that you are gone but not really, I can say some of the things I always wanted to say to you, but could never find the words or the right moment.
On our encounters, I always felt like I was in the
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We spoke about his process.
We spoke about Ken.
We spoke about Pan and the rest of the world.
DJ Wanke and I got to sit with THE Mark Loquan and travel through his 20years of music.
63 Steelbands for National Panorama Single Pan Prelims. Pan Trinbago’s National Panorama Single Pan Preliminaries will run off in all Regions over an eight (8) day period with a total of sixty three (63) registered bands. Bands will be judged at the
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Global - He is the man who brought the likes of Beverley Griffith, Clive Bradley, Scipio Sargeant, Ron Berridge, and Raf Robertson into the steel orchestra arranging community. Full Stop!!! Yes, you heard it here.
It is said that the world moves
Read more…An Interview with Dalton Narine
I believe anyone who did not join in the struggle has no moral authority to question someone who did. (Michael Marcano)
Michael Marcano joined the CIP (Concerned Individual for Pan) out of a concern for the declining
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Jeremy in a loving moment with his mother Charmay Granado. PHOTO BY ANSEL JEBODH
WATCH out Len “Boogsie” Sharpe! Eleven-year-old Jeremy Granado has set his sights on being the next master arranger of steelpan music. He wan
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Jammin’ still in North Park
Pan Trinbago president Beverley Ramsey-Moore, second from left, and members of her executive perform as a band at the official launch of Panorama 2019, hosted at BP Renegades panyard, Charlotte
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pennsylvania, USA - On the heels of a successful holiday party last month, Barrels to Beethoven — an organization co-founded by Leigh Solomon Pugliano and her husband, David Pugliano, that focuses on the preservation, educatio
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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
