Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Seventy-two-year-old amputee Glendford Sobers who played the steelpan from a wheelchair, stole the show at the National Panorama 2014 Single Pan preliminaries at Guaracara Park in Marabella on Sat
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WESTERN BUREAU:
Lead singer of the iconic reggae band, Third World, William 'Bunny Rugs' Clarke is dead.
Clarke, who would have turned 66 this Thursday, February 6, passed away last night in a hospital in Orlando, Florida.
He had
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Tobago steel orchestras in the small and medium categories take their turn
Trinidad Newsday By JULIEN NEAVES
THE ALLOCATION given to the Trinbago Unified Calypsonians’ Organisation (TUCO) for Carnival 2014 is “woefully short”, president Lutalo “Brother Resistance” Masimba declared yesterday.
He said TUCO would have liked $2
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Vying for positions in Trinidad & Tobago’s 2014 National Panorama semi-fin
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Neville Blackman — March 20, 1931 to Dec. 23, 2013
Ontario, CANADA - Neville James Blackman is credited with being one of the key people who introduced the sound of the steel drum to Hamilton. So it was only fitting that those soothing, u
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Tiger Tanks Fyzabad 4th Dimension added more light on Sunday night to the already well lit Petrotrin Sports Club, Guaracara Park, Pointe-a-Pierre with its performance of Richard Gittens’ arrangeme
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
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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,
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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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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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