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

Duvonne Stewart hears the results. Photo Maria Nunes

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Limbo Like Me – The Limbo Craze, 1962 – 1963

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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

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Elderly UK residents of former British colonies risk deportation

Windrush generation

This year marks the 70th anniversary since the Windrush docked at Tilbury [Dan Kitwood/Getty Images]

This year marks the 70th anniversary since the MS Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury, bringing with it 492 men and women from the

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No 10 refuses Caribbean request to discuss children of Windrush

The Guardian - UK

British citizens threatened with deportation to countries they left as children and have not returned since

‘I’m here legally, but they’re asking me to prove I’m British’

 No 10 acknowledged that a request had been received from

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Meet Patricia Black - Trinidad & Tobago - Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

Meet Patricia Black
Trinidad & Tobago

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - “I come alive as I transform into the woman on the bass while I lose my soul jamming to the sweetness, the harmonic and melodious arrangement by my legendary arranger Len “Boogsie” Sha

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Give Black Boys A Break

The Voice - 

Written by Dotun Adebayo

Is it because Shakespeare is not black? And why should black have to be white to be valid Professor Paul Gilroy once noted that we reject the black “in the Union Jack” at our cost and peril. When Elvis embraced

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NIU Steelband concert features virtuoso

DeKALB – The Northern Illinois University Steelband Spring Concert at 3 p.m. April 22 will feature an eclectic blend of music styles and a special guest artist.

The band, under the direction of Liam Teague, NIU professor of music and director of ste

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Crellin community builds steel band for school

by Mary Sincell McEwen A&E Editor

CRELLIN — One week of hard work by Crellin Elementary School students, faculty and parents has resulted in the construction of no fewer than 19 steel drums, now to be used at the school by music students led by teac

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Symphony of steel fundraises for IRIS

Carolyn Sacco

The St. Luke’s Steel Band brought the warmth of the Caribbean to an audience of 100 during a performance at Bethesda Lutheran Church on Sunday night.

The show, titled “A Symphony of Steel,” was the band’s second appearance at the chur

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Pantrinbago President Keith Diaz and Executive Members in War of Words.

Power 195

A verbal war is unfolding between Pan Trinbago President, Keith Diaz, and some executive members of the organisation.

Speaking at a news briefing this week, some of the members claimed that the head of the steel pan body was refusing to me

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Gadsby-Dolly keeping eye on Pan Trinbago

Trinidad Newsday

Minister of Community Development, Culture and the Arts, Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly. PHOTO SUREASH CHOLAI

IN the wake of Pan Trinbago president Keith Diaz shutting down the group’s office until the day after its extraordinary general me

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Pan Trinbago President fights back, plans meeting with membership

Pan Trinbago President Keith Diaz says a meeting with the general membership on April 17 will determine the way forward for the organisation.

Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, Diaz said at that meeting he will bring to the membership issue

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Go, please go in peace

Ainsworth Mohammed

Trinidad Express

In the interest of the steelband movement, I did not wish to tarnish the Pan Trinbago brand though they have done that all on their own.

I have not ever publicly denounced Pan Trinbago in spite of the fact that th

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Meet Justina Ploeger - Germany - Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

Meet Justina Ploeger
Germany

Dortmund, Germany - “I’m lucky to be born in a city, which can by now be called, “The steel pan stronghold of Germany.” The first steel pan association in Dortmund was founded in 1995 and a pan-round-the-neck band was pa

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Regrello to intervene in pan dispute

Junia Regrello

San Fernando Mayor Junia Regrello said he was willing to make an intervention into the dilemma between Old Tech Steel Orchestra and the San Fernando West Secondary school to bring about a win-win situation.

Regrello said it was an un

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Pan Trinbago accused of power grab

Trinidad Newsday

Pan Trinbago executive members from left, Darren Sheppard, Richard Forteau and Andre Salvador at a press conference on Tuesday. PHOTO BY ANGELO MARCELLE

Pan Trinbago secretary Richard Forteau said on Tuesday that he and fellow mem

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Private Pan Group Asked to Relocate Because of Space Constraint - MINISTRY OF EDUCATION Speaks

Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

The owner of the Old Tech Steel Orchestra was asked by the San Fernando West Secondary School to find alternative accommodation for their pans and other equipment because of sev

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Education Ministry says it’s not anti-pan

New York Newsday

THE Ministry of Education said yesterday it is not against pan, as is being argued after the Old Tech Steel Orchestra failed to meet the January 12 deadline to relocate from the San Fernando West Secondary School.

The band’s equipmen

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