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Ten Actions Steelbands May Take To Escape The Steelband Quagmire Of 2017: -- George D Goddard

Yo, Gregory, please share. I know very few value what I bring to the table, as a "nobody", but sound advice is independent of the messenger. Peace.

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Ten Actions Steelbands May Take To Escape The Steelband Quagmire Of 2017:
1. Pressure the Go

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Pan Trinbago executive voted out

Trinidad Newsday -- Joan Rampersad

AT the Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) of Pan Trinbago at CWU headquarters on Tuesday, the membership voted out the central executive committee and installed a caretaker committee.

The interim committee compris

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PanTrinbago coup - Forteau eyes legal challenge to bands’ vote

Trinidad Guardian

A decision by a large group of PanTrinbago members to remove the organisation’s central executive is now set to be the subject of a legal challenge.

During a special meeting at the CWU Hall in Port-of-Spain on Tuesday evening, 130 m

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Pan Trinbago Executive Dissolved, Caretaker Committee Installed

This comes as a Caretaker Committee was installed following an Emergency Motion and Meeting on Tuesday.

Apart from dissolving the Executive, it was voted with 130 votes in favour and one against that the former President, Treasurer and one other of

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Home Office under Theresa May destroyed evidence able to spare Wiindrush generation from deporation

Proof that could have spared members of the Windrush generationfrom the threat of deportation was destroyed by the Home Office under Theresa May, it has been revealed.

Thousands of landing cards – recording dates of arrival in the UK – were thrown a

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Can EU migrants trust Britain after the Commonwealth “Windrush” scandal?

To make matters worse, reports surfaced that the UK government destroyed landing cards, which would’ve been filled out by Windrush migrants on their arrival into Britain, in 2010. However, UK prime minister Theresa May said that while the Home Offic

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Arranger Kendall Williams in the News -- Richardson Chamber Players Explore “Voices of America”

...Once in a great while, a musician will take an instrument associated with more popular genres and raise it to a level of virtuosity and cross into classical repertory. Princeton University PhD student Kendall K. Williams has made a career moving t

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PANFEST: FEEL THE STEEL

By Maya Fenter

Dr. Chris Tanner pulled his pair of drumsticks from his back pocket and clicked them together to silence the cacophony in room seven in the basement of Presser Hall.

It was 7:45 p.m. and the members of Miami University’s Steel Ban

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PAN TRINBAGO, FROM ONE CRISIS TO THE NEXT

From October 2015, soon after Pan Trinbago's Central Executive Elections, it became clear to us that our organization was operating from one crisis to another. There were allegations left, right and center as to the cause of this instability. But our

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Theresa May apologizes for treatment of Windrush immigrants

By James Masters, CNN

London (CNN)British Prime Minister Theresa May apologized Tuesday for her government's treatment of some Caribbean immigrants to the United Kingdom and insisted they were still welcome in the country.

Speaking at a meeting with

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Britain Apologizes to Caribbeans Who’ve Lived in Britain for Decades

LONDON — Prime Minister Theresa May apologized on Tuesday for harsh treatment of some Caribbeans who have lived in Britain legally for decades but have trouble documenting their status, as her government reversed itself on an issue that had turned i

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Steel Band Insights - The Growth Of The Steel Pan Orchestra

by Priscilla Taylor

Casablanca Steel Orchestra at Brooklyn Academy of Music - 1983

The creation and the evolution of the steel pan, is one of the most Innovative inventions of the twentieth century. A true Folk Art, the pan developed on the Island o

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Meet Patricia Jones - Maryland, USA - Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

Meet Patricia Jones
Maryland, USA

Maryland, USA - “Music embodies my life to the point that it takes precedence to eating, drinking and sleeping. I often hear melodies and musical arrangements in my head...”

She is a music educator, performer, rec

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The Windrush Generation helped build our health service. Denying their children access to it is grotesque

by David Lammy

22nd June 1948: Newly arrived Jamaican immigrants on board the ‘Empire Windrush’ at Tilbury. (Photo by Douglas Miller/Keystone/Getty Images)

My parents were part of the Windrush Generation that our Government invited to Britain as cit

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Please leave - AINSWORTH MOHAMMED - Newsday

THE EDITOR: In the interest of the steelband movement I do not wish to tarnish the Pan Trinbago brand, though the organisation has done that all on its own. I have never publicly denounced Pan Trinbago in spite of the fact that it has been poorly adm

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Memories of the Esso Steel Band from 1952 - The Royal Gazette

Dear Sir,

Look what I found in the cellar cleaning up after the Norwegian winter: a rusty steel pan!

The story goes like this: in 1952, when I was 12 years old, I was with my father, who was captain on a cargo liner. The ship was 9,000 tonnes deadwe

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Duvonne’s Music Activism: Who Feels it, Knows it.

by SHARMAIN BABOOLAL

Duvonne Stewart opened the gates of hell and met them face to face; the killer and the man who killed the killer.

Duvonne Stewart hears the results. Photo Maria Nunes

He faced the demons, conquered them and had love to

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Limbo Like Me – The Limbo Craze, 1962 – 1963

OCTOBER 18, 2017 ~ DANNYFRIAR

Fire Down Below
Towards the end of the 1950s Limbo, a dance from Trinidad and Tobago, had become closely associated with Steel Pan music. The dance had been popularized by Trinidadian dancer Julia Edwards after her comp

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West Indians arrive in Britain on board the Empire Windrush – archive

23 June 1948: There was no band, certainly, to greet the immigrants at Tilbury, but it was a welcome, and, for officialdom, a warm welcome

TILBURY, TUESDAY.
What were they thinking, these 492 men from Jamaica and Trinidad, as the Empire Windrush slid

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Do the limbo! How the Windrush brought a dance revolution to Britain

By Judith Mackrell -

The Caribbeans who answered the call to save postwar Britain sparked a dance explosion. A new show relives those heady days

Street limbo … The Irwin Clement Caribbean steel band in London, 1963. Photograph: Heritage Images/Ge

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