City school officials have scrapped a controversial proposal to place a charter in a beloved Brooklyn public school building, they said Friday.
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River Oaks Middle School students from North Charleston, South Carolina entertained Walt Disney World Resort guests from across the nation and around t
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago President Keith Diaz has renewed calls for a local masters degree programme in steelpan as people are learning Trinidad and Tobago’s national instrument in other countries.
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+2 Bruce CotlerParent coordinator Donna Phillips and teacher Linsey Johnson wear their emotions on their T-shirts at a rally on May 10 outside IS 285 to protest a proposed co-location at the
By JULIEN NEAVES Sunday, June 5 2016 |
A LACK of music literacy is hindering steelband arrangers from getting employment and has resulted in Panorama compositions not being recorded.
These were some of the concerns raised yesterday during the open
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Sunday, June 05, 2016
he globally renowned Le Dîner en Blanc finally hit the shores of Trinidad & Tobago — and made quite a splash. Word of the inaugural soirée had quickly spread throughout local social circles, creating a widespread buzz among
By David Knight Jr. — June 5, 2016 - V.I. Source
St. John Festival 2016 got off to a lively start on Saturday as steel pan renditions o
San Fernando, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Usually, San City Steel Symphony housed on Carib Street in the city of San Fernando, south Trinidad is in the business of making sweet music. And that skill set saw the band coming in second in the country’s 2
New York, USA - A ‘marriage made in heaven’ - that of “WIADCA (West Indian American Day Carnival Association) and CTO (Caribbean Tourism Organization) bringing collective minds together.” These were the words of Brooklyn-born Congresswoman Yvette Cla
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Guyana, S.A. - A 14-year-old steel pan player, who was slated to perform at the flag-raising ceremony last night, was killed in a freak accident on Tuesday evening in front of the North Ruimveldt Multilateral School.
The teen had just
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It’s funny. Until fairly recently, I routinely sneered at people who grieved over celebrities they had never met. That was until Michael Jackson died in 2009. I grieved for Michael like he was a close family mem
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Ohio, USA - Michael Maxwell's band director regards him as a talented musician. But when the graduating Dover High School senior contemplates a career among the stars, he's thinking about the sky, not the stage.
"My dream job is t
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Oregon, USA - At some point in the 1960s, steel drum (a.k.a. pan) music became the Caribbean equivalent of cheesy Vegas lounge tunes: something only an ill-dressed tourist might fancy during a cruise ship port o’
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - From early morning, forecasters warned of thunderstorms in Las Cuevas and it seems that show host Richard Forteau, Pan Trinbago secretary, was correct when he said “God loves pan.” Rain fell fro
My name is Fundile Phaqa, 28 years old from King William’s Town in the Eastern Cape – South Africa. I live in a quiet rural area with the majority of the youth on drugs, alcohol, promiscuity and general lack of access to education and recreation. I a
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Having previously claimed that Invaders is his steelband, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley spent last Sunday evening with members of CAL Invaders Steel Orchestra and patrons attending A Mother’s
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Rehearsals at D’urban Park for Guyana’s 50th Independence Flag Raising Ceremony.
Guyana, S.A. - Guyana’s 50th Independence Anniversary celebrations were late Tuesday night marred by the death of a youthful steel-pan player shortly af
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