Social Media Backlash to Phase II Player Cut Before Panorama Finals

PHASE 11 LET DAVID PLAY!!! WHO WILL STAND UP FOR DAVID 12YRS OLD! David has been playing with Phase 11 since he was 9 yrs old. He played when they won Panorama 2013 with MORE LOVE. This Panorama Season David practiced for the entire sea.son, not m

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Steelband making waves

Stabroek News

Guyana, SA - Guyana is awash, virtually daily, with an array of ‘bad news’ stories. The ‘good news’ items are around, but they don’t always make the headlines; they remain invisible. This one I’m about to tell you goes back some years t

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Trinidad All Stars Again Deny Phase II Pan Groove Hat-trick - Pan Elders Medium Champion for Second Year

Global - And shortly after 4:00 a.m. local time on Carnival Sunday, pan music lovers all over the world knew just where their favorite bands in medium and/or large conventional steel orchestra categories stood - like it or not. With a start sometime

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Congratulations to Trinidad All Stars & Pan Elders

When Steel Talks extends congratulations to members of Trinidad All Stars and Pan Elders on your 2015 Panorama Championships. 

Trinidad All Stars captures Large Band Panorama 2015 Title - Leon "Smooth" Edwards champion arranger - see full results
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Congratulations to Arima Golden Symphony & San Juan East Side Symphony

When Steel Talks extends congratulations to members of Arima Golden Symphony and San Juan East Side Symphony on your 2015 Panorama Championship.

Arima Golden Symphony captures Small Band Panorama 2015 Title - Terrance “BJ” Marcelle arranger - see fu

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Ready For Panorama - Large and Medium 411

NGC Couva Joylanders and bp Renagades will play first in their respective categories on Saturday (14^th February 2015) as the National Panorama Medium & Large Conventional Bands Finals take centre stage at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain, Tr

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Finals Order of Appearance for Medium Steel Orchestras

Tunes
	Plays at:		Pan yard addresses		BAND	SONG	Orchestra Symbols and Logos	ARRANGER
	#1		Railway Road, Couva		Couva Joylanders	“Feeling It”		Kareem Brown
	#2		Bellamy Street & Cocorite Road, Arima		Melodians	“Don’t Stop This Party”		Amr

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Buxton Pride wins Mash Panorama Steel Pan Competition - Guyana

February 10, 2015 By GuyanaTimes

The Buxton Pride Steel Orchestra has done it again, taking top honours for the second year in a row and in its second showing at the Republic Bank Mashramani Panorama Steel Pan Competition on Sunday at the Cliff Ander

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Arima Panorama Winners - Trinidad & Tobago National Steelband Panorama 2015

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It’s FINALS Time for Single Pan Bands and Small Steel Orchestras

Global -  Defending Single Pan Band Champion San Juan East Side Symphony will play at position 12 while their joint counterparts in the Small Band category, Super Novas, will perform first with Pan Jammers going in at number six.

The three (3) are pa

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Culture Ministry wins Panorama steel pan competition - Guyana

Guyana Times


 

Guyana, SA - The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport’s steel pan band was named the winner of this year’s Mashramani Panorama Steel Pan Competition on Sunday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, Homestretch Avenue, Georgetown.

This is

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Magic of a steel pan band

An Edmonds man fell in love with the melodic music of steel pan bands at the age of 10, and now he’s set his sights on bringing a world-class steel band to Edmonds.

As a boy, Gary Gibson stood in the crowds at a Thanksgiving Day parade and watched as

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Ocean Bay Middle School offers steel drum and taiko class

WBTW-TV: News, Weather, and Sports for Florence, SC

MYRTLE BEACH, SC-    Students at Ocean Bay Middle School can now take a class on steel drum and taiko. The class was previously only offered at Carolina Forest Elementary, but Dr. Tim Peterman want

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Horace L. Morancie remembered by EVERYBODY’S “Caribbean” Magazine

Horace L. Morancie
June 27, 1929-February 4, 2015
Former Director of Model Cities
And Trinidad & Tobago Expatriate

Brooklyn, NY – EVERYBODY’S “Caribbean” Magazine – H. Hall
Horace L. Morancie, one of the most powerful Black technocrats of the 1960s a

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More on Horace Morancie

The Passing of a Caribbean American Legend.
Horace Morancie, MSc
Transitioned February 4, 2015
CACCI NEWS, NYC - Horace Morancie was one of the founders of the Urban Resource Institute and has served on the Board of Trustees since its inception 26 y

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New York City activist Horace Morancie dead at 85

New York Daily News -

New York, USA - Horace Morancie, one of the city's most powerful activists in the 1960s, died Wednesday of natural causes, his family said. He was 85.

Morancie, born in Trinidad and Tobago, came to New York in 1954 when he was

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Big Shake-Up to Music Licensing Regime Embraced by U.S. Copyright Office

In a 245-page report issued on Thursday, the U.S. Copyright Office is throwing its weight behind what would be the most radical changes to how music is licensed in nearly a half century.

Many of the copyright laws governing music were first erecte

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Windy Gap feels the rhythm

By John Stang Smith Mountain Eagle Smith Mountain Eagle

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Condolences to the family and friends of Horace Morancie

When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family and friends of Mr. Horace Morancie.

Mr. Morancie passed on the morning of Wednesday February 4, 2015. Mr. Morancie was always great supporter of When Steel Talks.

Mr. Horace Moranice, above, with w

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Congratulations to Panist, Film Director and Journalist Dalton Narine - Best Short Film

The Creative Arts Film Festival has named  “And Great Showers of Tears Came Down” by Dalton Narine as the 2014 Best Short Film...

Official 2014 Award Winners!
BEST SHORT FILM
“And Great Showers of Tears Came Down”
Produced by Dalton Narine
Directed

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