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To encourage, promote and reward the highest level of percussion education and musical excellence among high school and collegiate non-Western percussion-based performing ensembl
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - After a 16-year wait and with a new arranger leading them, Desperadoes Steel Orchestra at 2.55 a.m. yesterday captured their 11th National Panorama Championship (Large Conventional Band category).
Supporters of the band f
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Three steel pan musicians have helped a small-town steel orchestra in Trinidad defy the odds and take second place in the 2016 Panorama Competitions on Saturday night.
MJ Byron, Omandy Byron and Kazrano Gumbs played with
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - STEELBAND instruments are one of several items which will not be subject to the revised Value Added Tax (VAT) regime. This was revealed in a special notice published by the Finance Ministry in the name of Finance Minister Co
Read more…On another front -- a DJ inspired this question.
With Desperadoes winning Panorama 2016 with a popular tune - Different Me - does this signal the return of orchestras picking popular music as their tunes of choice?
Read more…Cnc3 News - Trinidad
Local musical legend, Joey “Pal” Lewis has died at the age of 78.
CNC3 has confirmed that Lewis passed away last night although the exact ill
by Dalton Narine
I listened mostly on radio after losing the CTV feed, which returned in the middle of the Large Bands competition.
So I missed the Phase Pan Groove’s visuals, but was entranced by Desperadoes’ roses shining in Picardy, in the hush
Read more…Peter Minshall discusses Carnival 2016 - The Dying Swan
Read more…Finals Results - Large Conventional Steel Orchestras - Trinidad & Tobago Panorama 2016
1. 285 Desperadoes
2. 284 Supernovas
3. 283 Phase II Pan Groove
3. 283 BP Renegades
5. 281 CAL Invaders
6. 280 All Stars
7. 277 Silver Stars
8. 276 Redemption
9.
Read more…Finals Results - Medium Conventional Steel Orchestras - Trinidad & Tobago Panorama 2016 - Pan Elders and Duvone Stewart Make It Three In A Row
| 275 | Pan Elders | |
| 1st | ||
| 2nd | 271 | Buccooneers |
| 3rd | 270 | Katzenjammers |
| 3rd | 270 | Sound Specialists of Laventi |
Question: If 20 people sang, wined and jumped up on a stage and nobody got a trophy, did it really happen?
Answer: … Hello? Hello, Mr Munro…?
Photo: Leh we wot?! Steups. Pastor, I trying to find out who win the damn Soca Monarch!
(Courtesy LexoTV)
It
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Some people, talking ‘bout the steel band
When they win Band of The Year Like they doh live here
But you doh - hear them saying nothing
When they win with bikini, and beads every year.
You have your choice, and the steel band
Forbes / Lifestyle
Trinidad Carnival is serious business.
No, really. The star-studded annual bacchanal kicking off next week, attracting upwards of 40,000 revelers, including the likes of Jay-Z and Richard Branson, is an intricately staged set of su
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Results of Single Pan Finals 2016
1. Marsicans and Trinidad East Side Symphony
3. T&T Fire Services
4. San Juan East Side Symphony and Arima All Stars
6. T&T Defence Force
7. Newtown Playboys Steel Symphony
8. Uni Stars
9. Gonzales Sheikers, Wood
Results Small Conventional Finals 2016
1. Arima Golden Symphony
2. Laventille Serenaders
3. Tornadoes ...
4. La Horquetta Pan Groove
5. Pandemonium and Fascinators Pan Groove
7. T&TEC New East Side Dimension
8. Five Rivers Modern Symphony
9. Tama
by When Steel Talks
This music is mad music
This music is mad people music
Time to get on bad music
This music is bacchanal music
So jump up like
We mad
And party like
We mad
Enjoy we life
Cause it’s bacchanal day and night -Madd Music --
Stabroek News
GY - Schools, large bands and other steel pan groups are gearing up for the Annual Republic Bank Pan-O-Rama Steel Pan Competition on February 25 and 28 as part of this year’s Mashramani events.
In keeping with jubilee celebrations under
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Different Me -- “5Star Akil”
The legendary Desperadoes Steel Orchestra have got their swagger back. And they are letting ever
Read more…Please be advised that a decision was taken at the Panorama Management Committee (PMC) Meeting re the above captioned requesting photographers to desist from taking their “shots/photographs” from within the band.
Firstly, it’s a distraction to the pl
Read more…Member of Parliament for Port of Spain South Marlene Mcdonald has shot down a request for pan yards to be given bar licenses.
The call came from Pan-Trinbago president Keith Diaz, who believes bar licences could help pan yards become less dependent o
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