When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family and friends of Jeffrey “Rafa” Dorant on his death

When Steel Talks extend our deepest sympathies to CASYM Steel Orchestra and Invaders Steel Orchestra on the senseless lost of their anchor member Jeffrey “Rafa” Dorant.

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Gypsy Is New NCC Chairman

The National Carnival Commission (NCC) has a new Chairman.

On Friday, former Culture Minister and Extempo Veteran, Winston 'Gypsy' Peters, received his instruments of appointment.

The appointment comes on the heels of the resignation of Colin Luca

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Abdulah: Dissolved EDAB was working on pan plan, Carnival assessment

Trinidad Newsday

David Abdulah, PHOTO BY LINCOLN HOLDER

Plans for the steel band industry and an economic impact assessment of Carnival were among the initiatives by the recently dissolved Economic Development Advisory Board (EDAB), reported forme

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Calypsonian and ex UNC MP Winston ‘Gypsy’ Peters appointed NCC chairman

Minister of Community Development Dr. Nyan Gadsby Dolly presents Winston Gypsy Peters with his letter of appointment as Chairman of the National Carnival Commission. Also present was Ms. Angela Edwards, Permanent Secretary of the MCDCA. Photo courte

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Pan Trinbago should sit before a JSC

This morning on CNC3's the Morning Brew Hema Ramkissoon spoke with Gregory Lindsay about Pan Trinbago. He thanked Keith Diaz for his service but believes that its time for him to go. He also suggested that the organisation go before a Joint Select Co

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Len "Boogsie" Sharpe -- Live and Unplugged

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Prof Teague rises

Trinidad Newsday Liam Teague

YVONNE WEBB

PAN virtuoso Liam Teague continues to rise in musical academia.

The accomplished arranger is now professor of presidential research, scholarship and artistry at Northern Illinois University (NIU) in the Unite

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Meet Nakita Wilfred - Barbados - Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

Meet Nakita Wilfred
Barbados

Barbados, W.I. - “Whenever I play pan, I would drift to this place of total bliss where she [my mother] resides and I can never help but to smile uncontrollably and feel at peace. Onlookers always inquire about my abili

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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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When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family and friends of Jeffrey “Rafa” Dorant on his death

Gypsy Is New NCC Chairman

Abdulah: Dissolved EDAB was working on pan plan, Carnival assessment

Trinidad Newsday

Calypsonian and ex UNC MP Winston ‘Gypsy’ Peters appointed NCC chairman

Pan Trinbago should sit before a JSC

Len "Boogsie" Sharpe -- Live and Unplugged

Prof Teague rises

Meet Nakita Wilfred - Barbados - Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

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

Pan Trinbago executive voted out

PanTrinbago coup - Forteau eyes legal challenge to bands’ vote

Pan Trinbago Executive Dissolved, Caretaker Committee Installed

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

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

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

PANFEST: FEEL THE STEEL

PAN TRINBAGO, FROM ONE CRISIS TO THE NEXT

Theresa May apologizes for treatment of Windrush immigrants

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

Steel Band Insights - The Growth Of The Steel Pan Orchestra

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