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Soca artist Rodney “Benjai” Le Blanc accompanies Skiffle Bunch Steel Orchestra, while performing his hit song “Phenomenal” during the International Steelband Foundation concert titled "We Going Down Sando" held a
Winifred Atwell was a Trinbagonian pianist who enjoyed great popularity in Britain and Australia from the 1950s with a series of boogie-woogie and ragtime hits, selling over 20 million records.
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South Florida Caribbean News
The Melo Groove Steele Orchestra
by Jason Walker
SOUTH FLORIDA – Steel Pan or steel drums were created in the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago in the early 1930s. The Steel Pan is a unique form of musical expr
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Racine, Wisconsin, USA - Racine’s Festival Hall will become an island oasis on Friday, Oct. 6, when steel drummers from near and far fill it with the unmistakably tropical tones of their music, beginning at 7:30 p.m.
The steel dru
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FLASHBACK: Taken in the 1940s, this photograph features Count of Monte Cristo (George Anderson), from left, MacBeth the Great (Patrick MacDonald), The Duke of Iron (Cecil Anderson), Houdini (Frederick Wilmoth Hendricks), Lord Invader
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Building our creative sector
Phase II pannist Yohan Chuckaree spoke of the irony that few know where to buy a steel pan, a sign that we have more to do when it comes to distribution of the national instrument. At the same
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NOW nearing the end of its annual two-week run, the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival 2017 has once again brought to light more than 100 fabulous works of the creativity and the artistry of Caribbean peoples on screen, dem
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Over the past three weeks I've tried to use my T&T Guardian column to tell a story of how pan is the remaining heart of the Labour Day Carnival, and the heartbreak of this year's Panorama, that I flew from TTO to NYC for, after missin
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The point of telling a story is the ending. The moral.
Sometimes the end falls out of a story. At times the beginning. Or middle. They have out of so many Caribbean stories, across waters,
Let me tell the story again. How I went Brooklyn. For Pan. Carnival Thursday night. Entering Despers USA’s panyard, I brush past police. On duty. Inside, news spreads. Kathleen Reilly,
I’ll tell the story from where it started. With the full 2 am flight from Piarco to Newark last weekend. By 10, I was in Brooklyn, in my Tobagonian friend’s mother’s apartmen
How the BIG5 panned out and breathed new life into the culture
Global - How about that.
Pan’s new focus. Love it.
It’s easy to see why.
Innovation is always key.
Since the long absence and death of J’Ouvert pan — a
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Loop Magazine
BP Trinidad and Tobago will increase its support for the Renegades Steel Orchestra in 2018. In commemoration of the Junior Renegades' tenth win of Junior Panorama in 2017 and the steel orchestra's 70th anniversary to be celebrated nex
MONARCH — The 2017-2018 school year is nearly a month old and at Monarch Elementary School that means it’s time for some entertainment courtesy of a group of talented young musicians.
In a statement released
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Philadelphia Pan Stars - Moliendo Cafe - Band Committee
Rhythm Bands -
Steve Massive Rhythm
MASQUERADE BANDS
Pagwah - Kritical News
Dalton Narine is a Vietnam vet whose story is featured on “The Vietnam War” film website. “The Vietnam War,” a film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick premieres on PBS on Sunday September 17 at 8/7c
Pictured right -
Dalton Narine on the way to Vietnam aft
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JOAN RAMPERSAD Thursday, September 14 2017
PAN Trinbago president Keith Diaz yesterday insisted that as head of the pan body, he has a right to call any meeting at short notice to discuss matters pertaining to the national instrument. This af
Read more…Astana, Kazakhstan - "Expo Astana 2017 came to a close last weekend in Astana, Kazakhstan. Hosted under the theme "Future Energy" the exhibition was held from June 10 - September 10, 2017. Participants came from as many as one hundred and fifteen (1
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