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Illinois, USA - “The steelpan has proved its versatility, by being able to shine through classical music, jazz music and other genres of music that many feel the steelp
By Abbisola Oxley
Havana, Cuba – Some 40 years ago Guyana donated the steel pans to help form the first steel orchestra in Cuba which is based in Santiago de Cuba. Today, the band is “a hit” and is popular throughout Cuba.
On February 23rd, as Guyan
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President Anthony Carmona greets Rudy “Twoleft” Smith at the Office of the President on February 20.
RUDY “Twoleft” Smith is an ambassador for steelpan in Denmark, where he lives in Copenhagen, and throughout Europe.
However, his h
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Minister of Community Development Culture and the Arts Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly experiences the Virtual Steelpan Museum which ran from February 7 to the 28 at the National Museum, Port of Spain.
Port-of-Sp
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News that Sussex Steel had been nominated for the Tesco Bags of Help initiative was music to the ears of members.
Now, the band is calling for support from shoppers during March and April, when votes in store will decide how grants of up to £4,000,
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Many of the new courses already are offered at the College Prep level, but Gordon said the schools also wanted to offer an upper-level Honors version of them.
"It requires that these courses are developed and im
Read more…...Some four decades ago the Government of Guyana donated a set of steel pans to the Cuban community in Santiago de Cuba as well as provided two steel pan tuners to assist with the launch of Cuba’s first steel orchestra.
On Friday afternoon, two of t
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Members of the Golden Hands Junior Ensemble perform their winning piece You Raised Me Up at the 32 biennial Music Festival at Naparima Bowl, San Fernando on Tuesday.
YVONNE WEBB
GOLDEN Hands Junior Ensemble left adjudicator Belinda
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Trinidad and Tobago’s 2018 Calypso Monarch Helon Francis came to the attention of the global steelband community back in 2013 when he vocalized ‘One for Bertie,’ a tribute to the late Pan icon, panist,
Bands move through the Sambadrome lined with powered speakers along the route. Rio’s carnival in Brazil is the largest in the world according to Guinness World RecordsBeyond bikinis, beads and feathers - Meeting the challenge of technology in a mod
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It was pan almost all day yesterday at Queen’s Hall, St Ann’s, and TT Music Festival adjudicator Dorothy Howden did not seem to mind. Again, it was the youngsters who came through. At the closure of the first half of Class 15, a stee
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PAN IN CUBA: Members of La Casa del Caribe incorporate the steelpan in Cuba’s annual Fiesta del Fuego (Fire Festival).
LAUREL V WILLIAMS
MANY attempts were made over the decades at unifying various Caribbean territories over the ye
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What were the judges looking for when deciding the winner for the Senior Panorama Competition 2018? Favouritism and a disregard for the judging rules of the competition were on full display. The judges were officials of th
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Socadromea huge success
SWEET FOR DAYS: A reveller in the band Bliss, plays her mas yesterday at the Socadrome in the Jean Pierre Complex.
CAROL MATROO
While most venues in Port of Spain suffered from poor crowd turnout for Carniva
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...We need to understand that the pan is more than just music; it is about spirit. It is about the connection between Ifa/Orisa and the nurturing of our pan in those yards.
Noted playwright and cultural historian Rawl
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Trinidad & Tobabo, W.I. - Chairman of the National Carnival Committee (NCC) Colin Lucas said there would be changes next year to the way TT’s greatest show on earth, Carnival, was showcased.
“Next year Carnival, we are goin
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...Ainsworth Mohammed is what we call a 'panman' but one whose strength, whether as a banker or band manager, is the combination of organisational and people skills with foresight and strategic thinking. While dep
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