When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family and friends of Monsieur François Lachèze. He was an awesome talent and ardent supporter of the steelpan music movement.
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago will host the first-ever Groovy Soca Steelband Competition on Carnival Monday (February 10) evening from 6:00 p.m. to 12 midnight.
The competition will see participating steelbands perform any original groovy
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If Port Of Spain Mayor Louis Lee Sing has his way there will be competition to the Dimanche Gras show being put on the by national carnival commission on carnival Sunday night. As Melissa Williams tells us, he is upset with the decision to remove t
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - World-renowned jazz pan player Andy Narell and his band put on the University of Calypso at the Learning Resource Centre at UWI, St Augustine campus last week.
The show was a resounding success as stellar
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - As the unmistakable sound of pan continues to spread across the farthest reaches of the globe, it is perhaps worth pausing to take stock of these early pan pioneers. Beyond the members of Taspo and
“One for Bertie” is the first attempt by Helon Francis at singing a song composed for the Pan, and it is in tribute to the late Pan icon, panist master tuner and builder, Bertie Marshall. “One For Bertie” features music by Earl Brooks and lyrics by
by Dalton Narine
Global - Les Slater, chair of the T&T Folk Arts Institute in New York and a former Highlanders arranger, is hard-pressed to bring up much of his childhood without including “big brother” Bertie Marshall. The emblematic tuner served
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - ....Lingering in the minds of the pan enthusiasts are other burning questions as the race climaxes: What is this Panorama milestone first prize? How many notches up will pan move following this era, given the next 50-year sh
Order of Appearance for Small, Medium and Large Steel Orchestras - for 2013 Trinidad & Tobago Panorama Finals
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....I’ve been here before.The last time I remember the police being so hognorant at Panorama was when Papa Patos was at the height of his unpopularity. The Guard and Emergency Branch were on a rampage. One scraped my arm and tried to g
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Global - Success Stars Pan Sounds, St. Francois Girls’ Steel Orchestra and St. Margar
et’s Boys all repeated as Trinidad & Tobago Junior National Panorama champions in the No
By Raffique Shah
Trinidad Express
CALYPSO, the unique art form that defined Trinidad and Tobago for a hundred years, that clever, creative combination of lyrics with rhyme and melody to haunt the living and awaken the dead, is dead. Gone to a great c
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Global - The Arima Carnival Committee in collaboration with the Eastern Region of Pan Trinbago presents its 2013 Panorama Competition on Monday 4 February 2013 at the Arima Basketball Court, Hollis Avenue in Arima, Trinidad. The
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Global - Thirty-eight steel orchestras will compete in the Junior National Panorama at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain, on Sunday 3 February 2013 from 9:00 a.m. The competition is staged by The M
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Ohio, USA - While skaters circled the ice at Lock 3, the Civic Theatre was suggesting warmer times and climes on Sunday afternoon.
Even before the University of Akron Steel Drum Band gave a 2:30 p.m. concert, the lobby of th
Read more…by Dalton Narine
Global - ....For now, I’m in the Grand Stand and medium band Katzenjammers is making a play. They don’t know that their song, Edwin Pouchet’s Shock Attack, is being received as muddy water, like the Tsunami effect their instruments
Global - It is said that our lives are inextricably linked together in ways we may never know or imagine.
....Years ago a very young Ray Holman arranged the Beatles’ original and the now classic Penny Lane for Starlift Steel Orchestra. While this so
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by Rubadiri Victor
The Greens must be destroyed. I'm clear of it. This is despite the fact that I spent most of Sunday there—so I know of what I speak.
It was carnal. Completely. And I needed that—but that was all it ever
Read more…When Steel Talks extends our condolences to the family and friends of Tony Lewis of Renegades Steel Orchestra.
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