Global - Meet the champion arranger for Success Stars Pan Sounds in the Non-School category of Trinidad & Tobago’s Junior National Panorama, Mickiel Gabriel. The orchestra is from Laventille. This ‘successful’ collaboration has resulted in three cons
Global - Trinidad and Tobago has a beautiful and unique carnival. Trinidad and Tobago also has no shortage of bureaucracy and bacchanal, surrounding its annual event. There are issues associated with the carnival that just leaves one’s head shaking.
Trinidad Guardian
After the fourth steelband passed the judges during the Carnival Monday Night Steelband Competition in San Fernando, one woman said, “I am still waiting to hear a real band play.” Another said: “Is this all the bands in San Fernando
Read more…Tuscarawas Bargain Hunter
Ohio, USA - The Dover High School Steel Band, under the direction of Joan Wenzel, will create an evening of warm-weather paradise for their annual Pantasia concert. The unique event will be held on Feb. 17, and will be a cel
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Revelers of Mocidade Independente samba school
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Trinidad All Stars Steel Orchestra took the top honors at Pan Trinbago’s Northern Region J’Ouvert Bomb Competition. The Pan event which has become a steelpan music staple on Carnival Monday morning was staged at Victoria Squ
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By Mark Lyndersay
The sun is dimming on the horizon and there are disjointed tinkles of tenors and rumblings of bass drums in the Woodbrook panyard of Phase II.
It’s hours after practice was supposed to formally begin on my fir
Global - Scintillating music and band performances from the Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama Medium & Large Conventional Steel Orchestra competition have been captured “live” on DVD and CD.
Panorama Finals 2013 – The DVD is produced by Pan Trinba
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Global - The steelpan music of Trinidad and Tobago has certainly come a long way in the past 50 years from 21 participating bands in 1963 preliminaries to 156 bands (totals for single, small, medium, and large) participating in
Read more…Caribbean New Media Group (CNMG) wishes to offer an explanation to Trinidad and Tobago and to the many thousands abroad who have been searching, in vain, for our internet stream of today's Carnival 2013 mas parade.
CNMG has been debarred by Mr. David
What moves grown men to wear fur and poke at a papier mache polar bear in the tropics? Probably an imagination that demands a Grandstand's worth of space. Desperadoes plays Polar North. Photograph by Kingsley Lyndersay (res
I’ve been advised, by a source with no reason to lie about such things, that some quite draconian fees have been instituted for the coverage of Carnival in 2013.
These fees break out as follows in T&T cash money as the unsuited thugs say…
NCC Fees: Per
Trinidad Express
The Carnival parade is not being streamed on the world wide web by any local media, not even by State-owned CNMG
The National Carnival Bands Association (NCBA) yesterday moved to block the station from streaming the Parade of the Ban
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IF YOU take photos of masqueraders jumping and wining on the streets today and tomorrow, during the Carnival Parade of Bands, the best advice you can heed is not to upload them on Facebook and other popular social networking internet
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Illinois, USA - Mateusz Koszarek said he wished he could have gotten out of his seat and danced.
His thoughts echoed the sentiments of many audience members at the performance of world fusion percussion ensemble Callaloo on Sund
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Guyana, S.A. - This is the fifth year that Republic Bank has been sponsoring the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport’s Mash Steel Pan Competition.
....This year’s steel pan competition will start with a preliminary under-15 competition which is sch
Read more…by Sandra L. Blood
Read more…"Coming from 2nd-to-last in the semi-final rounds of the Golden Jubilee national Panorama competition in Trinidad, to 3rd in finals...entering the competition emotionally and psychologically embattled (hoping to maintain its hat tr
Trinidad Express
By Louis B Homer South Bureau
It was the economic depression in Trinidad in the 1930s and the latent musical talent of young Afro-Trinidadians that gave birth to the steelpan as a unique musical instrument in Trinidad and Tobago whic
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Global - The genius of Len “Boogsie” Sharpe. An arranger who, worn down by protest and tribute songs in the Panorama, was moved to venerate a fallen colleague in Franklyn Ollivierra, a man who had served Sharpe and Phase II for three decades or so, s
