Global - In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks, steelpan musician, educationalist, arranger and former music director - NIU Master’s candidate Barry Mannette, shares his overall thoughts on Panorama - its past, present and future...
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Trinidad Express
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Both panmen and management of 48 unsponsored steel orchestras (single pan, small, medium and large) received donations from Scotiabank to help in their preparation for Carnival and the Panorama competition.
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Global - In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks - arrangers from the accomplished Codrington Pan Family—Cary, Khari and Keisha—share their thoughts overall on Panorama - its present and future, and their expected role in charting a new cours
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - With a thrilling performance in Pleasantville on Thursday night, the 2011 Panorama South/Central Single Pan Bands defending champions, Self Help Marines, sounded a warning to their competitors that
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Days after Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) dropped its sponsorship of Skiffle Bunch, the steelband has a new sponsor. The band, which is confident of winning the 2012 National Panorama title, will no
Trinidad & Tobago Newsday:
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The Minister of Arts and Multiculturalism, Winston Peters, yesterday distributed more than $2.6 million to 165 unsponsored steelbands to assist with their operations for Carnival and Panorama.
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Carriacou, Petite Martinique, Grenada, W.I. - Though Local Government is not yet fully implemented, the Local Government Office through the initiative of Permanent Secretary Bernadette Lendore-Sylvester was able to secure funding from the Grenada El
SELWYN BAPTISTE
Selwyn Baptiste, pioneer of the Notting Hill Carnival, died on 5 January 2012 following a long battle with cancer. Selwyn moved from Trinidad to the UK in 1960 and soon became involved in the community of Notting Hill. He establishe
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Global - Meet the chief executive officer for the acclaimed Exodus Steel Orchestra, Ainsworth Mohammed. In a frank and candid interview Mr. Mohammed shares his views on a host of issues surrounding Panorama past, present and future. Ainsworth Mohamm
Mere weeks before the National Panorama Competition, Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) has withdrawn its sponsorship of Skiffle Bunch Steel Orchestra. After 30-plus years it has shattered our hopes, especially when Panorama is expected to start in two we
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Global - In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks, steelpan musician, adjudicator, arranger and educator, Dr. Jeannine Remy—the 2012 arranger for Hatters Steel Orchestra—shares her overall thoughts on Panorama...
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Global - Ray Holman - esteemed composer, arranger, and steel pan player, who holds the distinction for writing the first-own composition for the steelband in the National Steelband Panorama competition, will be taking you down memory lane with his h
Global - Pan Trinbago has commissioned popular local cartoonist Keith “Keithos” Anderson to illustrate it’s first-ever calendar.
The months of the year depict milestones along the way in the development of the steel pan. These include the famous riot
TnT Mirror
Global - As the 2012 Carnival waxes warm the steelband fraternity has lost yet another stalwart.
Robert “Miguel” Gonzales, the captain of Marsicans Steel Orchestra of D’arceuil Lane, Cocoa, Mausica Old Road, Arima, died around 3.00 a.m. on
Read more…“...sometimes describing oneself as a Panist can be met with disgust and even discrimination. The question which follows is “What else do you do?” ...the area from which you have come also sometimes brings discrimination.” Merle Albino-de Coteau.
Guyanese social history icon and culture enthusiast Godfrey Chin has passed away. He was 74.
click for the rise of the steelband by Godfrey Chin
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Global - In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks, FBE (Full Blown Entertainment)—brothers Kevon and Kory Hart—highlights the journey to their now-established position as a successful, in-demand songwriting duo on the Trinidad & Tobago music s
The Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Another chapter in the colourful history of the steelband was written at 9.35 pm on Friday when the Lydian Singers mounted a stage in the panyard of Petrotrin Phase II Pan Groove Steel Orchestra
Anyone who plays the steelpan instrument is a ‘PANIST’ (with one ‘N’) according to Dalton Narine, the man who originally coined the word years ago.
The international and highly-respected, award-winning journalist and film maker explains that ‘PANIST
Read more…In a fire in at the Noodweg, Loosdrecht premises that housed the uniforms and musical instruments of the Dutch Police Orchestra, all was lost. Police suspect that arson was the cause of the fire. The Wednesday January 4, 2012 blaze completely destr
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