New York Panorama 2017 - A people's perspective
Bands are not performing on stage for NY Panorama 2017 - but adjacent to the audience
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Bands are not performing on stage for NY Panorama 2017 - but adjacent to the audience
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A Let Steelpan Ring Chat in the Rain

West Indian American Day Carnival Association (WIADCA)
Due to the weather conditions Panaroma was rescheduled. We apologize for any inconvenience to the public. Once the weather permits, and the authorities deems it safe to proceed. Panaroma h
Pan Trinbago Inc. has received the Players’ Remittance Cheques.
According to Keith Diaz, President, Pan Trinbago collected the cheques earlier today from the National Carnival Commission.
He said that the cheques will be given to the Regional Cha
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Surrey Village, Lopinot-based steelband, Supernovas Steel Orchestra woke up Ariapita Avenue in the wee hours of Sunday morning, after unleashing a highly energetic and spirited performance, at Pan
Read more…Check out the comments on the article left by the people gentrifying the traditional NY Pan neighborhoods.
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New York, USA - Two Crown Heights venues where locals practice and prepare for J'Ouvert and other West Indian American Day Carnival
Despers USA Steel Orchestra musicians have recorded their Panyard performance of their 2017 NY Panorama selection, with a live audience looking on.
Two [Despers USA and CASYM] Basement Recordings Panyard recording sessions down, three more schedul
CASYM Steel Orchestra musicians have recorded their Panyard performance of their 2017 NY Panorama selection, with a live audience looking on.
Two [Despers USA and CASYM] Basement Recordings Panyard recording sessions down, three more scheduled to go
Steel pan drummers (from left) Michael Edwards, 20, Jordan Cato, 17, and Kaila Charles, 16, play in the rain at practice for the Panorama tournament on Saturday.
CROWN HEIGHTS — It was a cold and rainy night in Bro
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By Stephen Spark
Photographer Stephen Spark
Only Ebony and Nostalgia, plus a couple of iron bands – that was the sad reality that greeted the thousand or so revellers at 6am waiting expectantly for some steelpan to accompany the important bus

It’s a new sign of change, but the festival is staying the same.
Earlier this week the city’s police commissioner and the mayor announced that J’ouvert — the annual pre-dawn festive Labor Day parade — will see stricter security regulations similar
Read more…Sesame Flyers International Incorporated, a youth organization whose “Love A Kid Today and Every Day program has served more than 700,000 children in 23 countries over the years, received a big financial boost from the Canarsie Branch of Capital One
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By Tyrell Gittens Monday, August 28 2017
Speaking at Saturday’s launch of the National Steel Pan Manufacturing Journeyman Programme in Macoya, Secretary of the Steel Pan Tuners’ Guild of Trinidad and Tobago, Anthony Duncan revealed t
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Wednesday August 30th:
Thursday August 31st
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- 9:30 p.m. - D’Radoes Stee
#CarnivalMonday #BigPeopleTime #PartyCaribbean
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With our state of the art recording facilities on site here at ICMP, it’s unsurprising that we often usher many major musicians and performers of all kinds through the doors.
Back in July Dream Theater’s Mike Portnoy passed through to get some last
Earlier, the carnival got under way with a traditional paint fight.
The tradition, known as Jouvert, meaning "open of the day", sees revellers hurl paint at each other which dancing to steel bands and African drummers.
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