United Kingdom - The Trinidad and Tobago High Commissioner to London, H.E. Garvin Nicholas hosted the UK Pan Tuners Guild’s Master Tuner presentation on Friday 31st January 2014 at the High Commission HQ at Belgra
Global - Seventeen small and ten medium conventional steel orchestras will take centre stage as th
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Virginia, USA - Inside the Smith Mountain Lake Gallery on a bitterly cold Saturday, Richard Rudolph directs a group of 15-20 adults thumping on brightly colored drums from the Island of Trinidad to bring a new sound to SML. In a
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - A small crowd of pan supporters showed up for the National Single Pan Panorama preliminaries at The Paddock, Queen’s Park Savannah, Port-of Spain, on Saturday. Twenty-eight of the 29 bands register
Trinidad Express Newspapers
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - There were gasps of disappointment when it was announced that the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force Steel Orchestra would not be participating in the preliminary round of the national steelband pa
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The history of steelpan as chronicled in Trinidad newspapers is now only a click away. As a result of a grant from UWI and collaboration between students at UWI and the UWI library, more than 4,
Trinidad Express Newspapers
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago’s National Steelband Panorama 2014 competition kicked off at the Arima Velodrome on Thursday night with the preliminary round for single pan bands in the eastern region.
Of the 21 ba
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Trinidad Express Newspapers
As pan competitions draw near...
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Musical tones resonated from various panyards in the North as steelbands prepare their Panorama repertoire in time for the Northern Region National Large Conventi
By COREY CONNELLY - Trinidad Newsday
The involvement of “big money” in Carnival has, to some extent, minimised the importance of calypso as an accepted traditional artform, says university lecturer Dr Louis Regis.
Head of the Department of Literary,
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New Haven, Connecticut, USA - They lifted every voice — and every violin, and every steel drum.
“You can put on your dancing shoes now, and take off your cold weather shoes,” the Steel Band’ s conductor/arranger, Kenneth Joseph
The Royal Gazette
Bermuda - Paul Smith is a man on a mission: to change everything you think you know about the steel pan.
The 31-year-old musician uses the steel pan to play everything from John Legend’s ‘Ordinary People’, Drake’s ‘Find Your Love’ a
January 23, 2014: The National Carnival Commission would like to respond to Trinidad Guardian’s editorial dated January 22.
In summary, we believe there are other elements that were not sufficiently discussed and we would like to use this opportunity
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FANS and colleagues of calypso legend the Mighty Sparrow jammed Melanie's Sports Bar in Brooklyn, New York, last week for a concert in his honour.
The January 18 event was organised by Derek Parsons of WACK Radio and famed calypsoni
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Steelbands leaders have praised the Scotiabank Foundation for its decision to double contributions to unsponsored steelbands preparing for the National Panorama competition and increase the number
This year has seen a proliferation of pan songs like no other. Already there are well over 50 songs and the list keeps growing every day.
Every year new composers and sing
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Global - The steel orchestras of Trinidad & Tobago continue to check in with When Steel Talks regarding their respective tunes of choice for the 2014 Panorama season.
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan players from steelbands based in east Port-of-Spain are on the run as the country’s crime wave continues to escalate, says Gerard Mendez, chairman of Pan Trinbago’s northern region.
Up to la
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Global - It is usually said that opposites attract; however this is a case where like minds meet. At this juncture - those of roycrosse, and Dalton Narine. “roycrosse” - this is i
One of the goals of NCC's new five-year Strategic Plan 2014-2018 is to replace the focus on Carnival as a festival with Carnival as an industry.
The National Carnival Commission of Trinidad and Tobago Act(Chapter 42.01, A
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