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Setting the record straight on Sundowners by Steve Regis
- by Steve Regis
Let me fill in the missing pieces and some clarification of Sundowners.
The original Sundowners was captained by Selwyn Dayal and I was the music arranger. The address was at Purcell Street in a garage which belonged to Selwyn's famil
Revisted - Presenting Carnival to the World - An interview with Paul Charles, Director of Carnival TV - A When Steel Talks Exclusive
Carnival TV - Meeting the Challenge of presenting Caribbean Entertainment and Events to the World
After years of unprofessionalism, bad products and lame excuses - Carnival TV stepped in and showed it could be done. In an exclusive interview the dir
Revisted - How Pan (and Neville Jules) Saved My Life
by Dalton Narine
Global - I met Pete many, many nightmares ago at a Veterans Administration (VA) hospital in New York City. He’d left his legs in a booby trap in Vietnam. So they doped him up to alleviate chronic pain. When doctors stopped the meds
LAUNCH of CARIBnet!! NEW INITIATIVE FOR THE LIVE INTERACTION OF PANNISTS,
A message from Jacqueline Sealey
LAUNCH of CARIBnet!! NEW INITIATIVE FOR THE LIVE INTERACTION OF PANNISTS, from Northern Illinois University (NIU), The University of Trinidad & Tobago (UTT), and, the UK at the Headquarters of JANET, at Didcot in Oxf
Read more…Success Stars to perform at US Black Arts Festival
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Success Stars Pan Sounds of Laventille has been invited back to Atlanta, Georgia, USA for more performances, after leaving patrons speechless when they performed at Centennial Olympic Park last
Phase II for Nigeria - As part of Panorama first prize...
Trinidad Express Newspapers
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - National Panorama 2013 winner (Large Band) Petrotrin Phase II Pan Groove will travel to Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria, in November as part of its first prize winnings.
This announcement was m
Read more…Pan Trinbago pays tribute to stalwarts
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago, in celebrating its 50th anniversary, paid tribute to some of Trinidad and Tobago’s outstanding arrangers, tuners and steel bands in a gala awards ceremony at Cascadia Hotel, St Ann’
It's a music festival, not a riot (Panorama semi-finals) - by Gary Aboud
Trinidad Express Newspapers
As usual, I attended the Panorama semi-finals and year after year I am shocked at the police brutality.
Unnecessary situations of violence haunt and mar our festivities for innocent supporters.
Every year supporters
Read more…Leon “Foster” Thomas - Drumming for 2013 Steelband Panorama Champion Phase II Pan Groove
He is one of the most dynamic talents out of the Caribbean. Hailing from Trinidad and Tobago, Leon “Foster” Thomas has already left an indelible mark in the music arena as a performer, recording artist and songwriter. Today, When Steel Talks (WST) ha
Where is the Pan in Carnival? - Pelham Goddard asks
In a letter to When Steel Talks -
After again witnessing an almost complete domination by the DJ trucks, veteran and champion arranger for Trinidad and Tobago's Exodus Steel Orchestra asked this question , "Where is the Pan in Carnival?"
Pelham said,
Read more…Photographers protest high fees to cover mas, pan & more
The Trinidad Guardian
It’s wrong and unethical
Contrary to popular belief—and, apparently, the belief of Carnival special interest groups—photographers don’t make a lot of money from covering Carnival. This year, Carnival stakeholders—the Nation
Read more…The Hope of T&T - Sapna: the Dream Song of the Carnival
by Dalton Narine
Global - If, as DJs have circulated, Carnival 2013 was regaled by some 4,000 festival songs, then the dream of the whole lot has been Sapna, a bit of cross-genre music in which our culture is courted by a love story and treated with
Early steelband memories
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Corbeaux Town, Port-of-Spain, is named after the corbeaux who scavenged the garbage from the La Basse and fish market, about where the fire brigade station is now, in the 19th and early to mid-20
Read more…Dalton Narine’s Panorama Notes 2013
Global - Someday, Phase II drill person Natasha Joseph will arrange for a large band in the Panorama, “but I’m biding my time.” For now, arranger Len “Boogsie” Sharpe relies on her ability to conduct rehearsal sessions, so indispens
New cultural economic order - for T&T carnival - by Sunity Maharaj
by Sunity Maharaj
Re-published with the expressed permission of the author
A big lagniappe of Carnival 2013 was the duel over rights in which value creators squared off against value appropriators.
It's been a long time in co
St. Margaret's Boys Anglican School Creates Worldwide Pan History
by Sandra L. Blood
Trinidad and Tobago - Worldwide pan history was created within our 2013 Golden Jubilee, national panorama season at the schools’ panorama competition held at the “Big Yard’, Port of Spain, on February 3rd, when the St Margaret’s Bo
Read more…Delightful sounds engulf Mash Pan-o-rama Steel Band competition
Georgetown GINA, February 17, 2013
Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, performing the duties of the President and Minister of Culture Youth and Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony were among music lovers enjoying the delightful sounds of the Republic Bank Mashramani P
Read more…Work of calypso great Maestro to be reviewed
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“Maestro”
Brooklyn, New York - Calypso will be the focus of the next Trinidad & Tobago Folk Arts Institute forum at Medgar Evers College, when a panel discussion explores the phenomenal work and legacy
Read more…Mickiel Gabriel, Champion arranger for Success Stars Pan Sounds - Panorama 2013
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
