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“The Bradley
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The
Bradley Years represent the definitive collection
of steelband music arrangements and performances
for a large steel orchestra. This collection
showcases seven classic arrangements from the
master arranger Clive Bradley. Bradley
is considered to be the best steelband music
arranger ever by many, including his peers.
In addition, the arrangements are performed
by one of the finest steelbands in the world,
New York’s Pantonic Steel Orchestra. Clive Bradley
had a very special relationship with Pantonic.
This orchestra clinched the title of panorama
champions five times in seven years - performing
Bradley’s musical works. The performances
were captured by Basement Recordings days before,
and in one instance, mere moments before they
took the stage for the prestigious annual steelband
music panorama competition.
The recordings
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clarity with sonic realism, of a large steel
orchestra fielding between one hundred and one
hundred twenty musicians - unlike any other
steelband music recordings in its class.
This body
of musical work is a sterling addition for all
fans, educators, players, historians and fine
music collectors.
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Trinidad and
Tobago 2019 Panorama and Carnival
Schedule of
Events
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Global
- Trinidad and Tobago Panorama and Carnival
Schedule of Events.
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2019 Trinidad and Tobago National Steelband
Panorama Info - Complete
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Trinidad
& Tobago, W.I. - PanOnTheNet/ WhenSteelTalks
is Panorama Central! Complete information
on the 2019 season of the Trinidad and Tobago National
Panorama, and competitions: Schedules, Orders
of Appearance for preliminary, semi-final and final
phases for large, medium and small conventional
steel orchestras, and single pan bands; arrangers’
bios, bios of steel orchestras; full results, panyard
addresses, history of previous Panoramas, and much
more!
see complete information index
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Web Posted -
Thursday January 31, 2019
When Steel Talks
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Single Pan Bands -
Order of Appearance - Finals - Trinidad
& Tobago Panorama 2019 |
Trinidad
& Tobago, W.I. -
The appearance order for the twenty finalists in
the National Panorama Single Pan Band finals has
been released by Pan Trinbago, after eight days
of preliminary single pan competition in the
North, East, South/Central and Tobago regions.
San Juan
East Side Symphony playing a Carlon “Panman”
Harewood arrangement of Iron Man amassed 274
points to take the lead in the Preliminary stage
as forty-seven bands vied for only twenty places
available to move directly on to the Finals in
their category. For the record, sixty-three was
the original number of single pan bands listed
to participate in the 2019 season.
more info
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Web Posted -
Wednesday January 30, 2019
When Steel Talks
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Single Pan Bands -
Complete Preliminaries Results - Trinidad
& Tobago Panorama 2019 |
Trinidad
& Tobago, W.I. -
The top twenty Single Pan bands in the country
will proceed to the finals scheduled for Sunday
February 3, 2019. Venue is the Arima Basketball
Court in east Trinidad, at 6:00 p.m. These move
on from the total of forty-seven bands which
eventually participated (the original number
scheduled was sixty-three) and competed over an
eight-day period in the four regions (North,
East, South/Central and Tobago). The defending
champs from 2018 - Newtown Pan Symphony - made
the final cut, placing seventeenth out of the
twenty finalists.
full results
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Web Posted -
Wednesday
January 30, 2019
When Steel Talks
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Song for Panorama 2019
‘Trouble In The
Morning’
sung by “V’ghn”
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Global
- ‘Trouble In The
Morning’ is performed and written by “V’ghn”
aka Jevaughn “V’ghn” John.
It is the
tune of choice for both Bon Air Rhythm Rockers
and West Stars steel orchestras in the 2019
Trinidad & Tobago Panorama season.
listen to tune
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Web Posted -
Wednesday January 30, 2019
When Steel Talks
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Small Conventional Steel Orchestras - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama 2019
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Trinidad
& Tobago, W.I. -
Fifty-seven small steel orchestras are listed as participants in the 2019 Trinidad and Tobago National Panorama competition. Preliminary judging begins in the respective pan yards of bands in the South/Central region on February 5.
see complete list
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Web Posted -
Tuesday January 29, 2019
When Steel Talks
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Dr. Clifford Alexis,
Renowned Tuner and Steelband Builder, Passes
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Illinois, USA - The
global steelband community is mourning the loss
of yet another elder in its ranks. Dr. Clifford
Alexis, retired educator, arranger, tuner and
steelband builder for Northern Illinois
University (NIU), passed away January 29 after
illness.
....Dr.
Alexis will be incredibly missed; his impact
over the years has been indelible on the
landscape of Pan in the United States and the
wider world.
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Web Posted -
Monday January 28, 2019
When Steel Talks
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Stubbornness that hurts; why climbing murder rate and Panorama issues persist
An opinion
by Martin Daly
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Trinidad & Tobago
- I have previously written: “Few commentators have advocated more intensely than I have, that the steel band movement be treasured, that its role in social development cannot be overestimated, that it is a scientific and musical patrimony and that it must not be blitzed out of Carnival by the capitalist takeover of the Carnival routes by means of monster trucks. “In connection with accountability for state funds, I must ask my many friends in the steel band movement to consider carefully the madness of long Panorama hours and the responsibility that comes, or should come, with access to state funds.”
This column is no longer a voice in the
wilderness. I now have powerful company on the
public record. In the Newsday of 15 January this
year, Mayor of San Fernando, Junia Regrello,
leader of Skiffle, reportedly advised Pan
Trinbago to restructure what has been done for
decades in order to move forward.
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more
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Web Posted -
Sunday
January 27, 2019
When Steel Talks
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Song for Panorama 2019
‘Talking Bout Pan’
sung by Iwer George
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Global
- ‘Talking Bout Pan’ is
performed and written by Iwer George.
It is the tune of choice for Cocorite West Wind
Steel Orchestra in the 2019 Trinidad & Tobago
Panorama season.
listen to tune
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Web Posted -
Saturday January 26, 2019
When Steel Talks
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2019 Trinidad and Tobago National Steelband
Panorama - 2019 Tunes of Choice Picks
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Trinidad
& Tobago, W.I. -
With fourteen bands to date playing ‘Hookin’ Meh’, the
“Farmer Nappy” soca hit leads the pack as the
most popular tune of choice for the steel
orchestra in Panorama 2019.
Listen to complete playlist
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Web Posted -
Friday
January 25, 2019
When Steel Talks
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Song for Panorama 2019
‘Professor
Philmore’
sung by Hamilton
“Web” Alexander
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Global
- Hamilton Alexander,
the “Web,” has over forty years in a musical
legacy that is distinctly Trinidadian. He joined
the Trinidad All Stars Steel Orchestra in 1966,
and later on became band captain in the 70s.
For
Trinidad & Tobago’s 2019 Panorama season, he has
penned and vocalized this track, ‘Professor
Philmore,’ honoring the late Ken “Professor”
Philmore.
listen to tune
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Web Posted -
Thursday January 24, 2019
When Steel Talks
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MALICE IN THE PALACE
Featuring Pan, Panists & Pandemonium:
Is Panorama Driven Apart by Civil War?
The art, the dance,
the Pan
When will they reappear?
by Dalton Narine
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Global
- A Trojan horse has
invaded our annual ritual, just like that.
I had
planned on writing a piece about Pan and the
instrument’s supposed loneliness in the Mas (The
Carnival is Over) in time for Panorama Finals
week. So I understand the massive outpouring of
the nation’s bizarre outcry of passion, but I
own a different belief regarding my take and
experiences.
I’ll leave
the inner sanctum of Pan Trinbago’s president,
Pan’s yardies and the current mind-blowing
brouhaha to the Alices in Wonderland and their
faux animal characters speaking in caustic
tongues of the human language.
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more
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Web Posted -
Wednesday January 23, 2019
When Steel Talks
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An Opportunity for Pan
An opinion
by Wesley Gibbings
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Trinidad & Tobago
- Let’s face it,
notwithstanding the severe difficulties
currently being faced by the organisation with
overall responsibility for the steel band
movement, the annual Panorama competition has
not been the “disaster” described by people who
are indifferent to the value of the instrument
as creative expression and as a socio-economic
resource.
....Finally (for now at least), let’s talk about
the 163 steel bands that responded to this
year’s Panorama roll call. And let’s be brutally
frank. T&T is not a 163-band country within the
context of a competitive music festival.
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more
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Web Posted -
Monday January 21, 2019
When Steel Talks
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Single Pan Bands -
Preliminaries, Northern Region - Trinidad
& Tobago Panorama 2019 |
Trinidad
& Tobago, W.I. -
Pan Trinbago’s annual National Panorama Single
Pan Preliminaries culminate with the Northern
region in the spotlight. A complement of
twenty-five bands will be spread over a
three-day period beginning Sunday January 27
through Tuesday January 29.
more info
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Web Posted -
Monday January 21, 2019
When Steel Talks
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Single Pan Bands -
Preliminaries, Eastern Region - Trinidad
& Tobago Panorama 2019 |
Trinidad
& Tobago, W.I. -
The second set of Single Pan Prelims showcase
the Eastern Region bands in Pan Trinbago’s
annual National Panorama.
On Friday
January 25 and Saturday January 26, respectively
- eleven, then eight bands will perform their
tune of choice over this two-day period.
more info
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Web Posted -
Monday January 21, 2019
When Steel Talks
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Single Pan Bands -
Preliminaries, South/Central, Tobago Regions - Trinidad
& Tobago Panorama 2019 |
Trinidad
& Tobago, W.I. -
Pan Trinbago’s annual National Panorama Single
Pan Preliminaries begin with the South/Central
and Tobago bands in the spotlight.
South/Central Region bands will be the first
group to face the adjudication panel on Tuesday
January 22 (four bands), and Wednesday January
23 (six bands). The following evening, Thursday
January 24, is earmarked for Tobago-based bands.
Some six groups are expected to represent the
sister isle.
more info
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Web Posted -
Monday January 21, 2019
When Steel Talks
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63 Steelbands for
National Panorama Single Pan Prelims - Trinidad
& Tobago Panorama 2019 |
Trinidad
& Tobago, W.I. -
Pan Trinbago’s National Panorama Single Pan
Preliminaries will come off in all regions over
an eight-day period with a total of sixty-three
(63) registered bands. They will be judged at
their respective panyards/communities on their
designated days.
....The
South/Central region will be the first group to
face the adjudication panel on Tuesday January
22 (four bands) and Wednesday January 23 (six
bands). The following day, Thursday January 24,
is earmarked for Tobago-based bands. Some six
bands will go through their paces.
more info
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Web Posted -
Sunday January 20, 2019
When Steel Talks
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The Carnival Is Not Over
Who Said So?
Michael Marcano
An interview Dalton Narine
“I believe anyone who did not join in the struggle has no moral authority to question someone who did.” (Michael Marcano)
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Trinidad & Tobago
- Michael Marcano joined the CIP (Concerned Individuals for Pan) out of a concern for the declining state of affairs of the steel band in its own birthplace. He’s frustrated with the executive of the governing body, and deems the group as self-serving and lacking in vision for taking the movement forward.
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more
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Web Posted -
Sunday
January 20, 2019
When Steel Talks
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Song for Panorama 2019
‘High’
sung by Vanessa
Alexandra
Headley
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Global
- In 2015 arranger,
composer and vocalist Vanessa
Alexandra Headley put forward Pan In D Galaxy
as her tune for Panorama, while Young And
Free was her choice in Panorama
2016. With
Push! coming in 2017, Vanessa continued on
to make history one year later becoming the
first person to write, vocalize and arrange her
own material (Trouble), for her own
steel orchestra - Golden Hands - and
win a championship, doing so in the small
conventional category for Panorama 2018.
For the
2019 Panorama season Vanessa, with Golden Hands, is back to
defend the championship, and returning to
competition with her track High, featured here.
listen to tune
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Web Posted -
Saturday January 19, 2019
When Steel Talks
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Meet Dr. Roy Cape -
Legend, Musician, Bandleader, Author, Educator &
Philanthropist -
UpClose!
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Global
- He is the man who
brought the likes of Beverley Griffith, Clive
Bradley, Scipio Sargeant, Ron Berridge, and Raf
Robertson into the steel orchestra arranging
community. Full Stop!!! Yes, you heard it here.
It is said
that the world moves in wondrous and mysterious
ways, and moreover, everyone and everything are
connected. There is no greater example of this
phenomenon than the life of Dr. Roy Cape.
If you remove Dr. Roy Cape from the time-line,
his significant and global impact to date on Pan
culture, the art form and music world in
general, would be voided; and all that exists
because of his interactions - would never have
been.
read
more
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Web Posted -
Saturday
January 19, 2019
When Steel Talks
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A Father’s Son: A Blood
Dynasty | Amrit Samaroo and Supernovas Steel
Orchestra
by Sharmain Baboolal
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I.
- His father, small as
he was, held him by his neck and threatened him
the day he declared that he wanted to arrange
music too. Jit Samaroo did not give Amrit an
easy passage into his world. He made him earn it
because he knew it was no easy road. Never mind
that he is the only son. But on that fateful day
male pride made Amrit swear that he would prove
his father ..the legendary little Indian who
harnessed the talent of the Renegades and over
time helped to make them a force to be reckoned
with...wrong.
How could
he even imagine that the spirit of the music in
the Samaroo Jets, which helped Jit to take care
of his siblings after their mother died, would
not imprison his only begotten son too?
read
more
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Web Posted - Saturday
January 19, 2019
Trinidad and
Tobago Newsday
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Bands go for Hookin’ Meh
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
The most popular song for 2019 Carnival
Hookin’ Meh by Darryl “Farmer Nappy” Henry has become a sort
of “test piece” for Conventional Large bands in Panorama.
Five bands, led by defending champions
BPTT Renegades will be playing Hookin’ Meh’; very early
arranger Duvone Stewart and the management and players chose
the song as a leading contender. They waited a bit to hear
other songs before making it the tune of choice.
Second place CAL Skiffle is also coming
to town with Hookin’ Meh arranged by Marc Brooks, Kendall
Williams and Odie Franklin.
read more |
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Web Posted -
Friday January 18, 2019
When Steel Talks
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Song for Panorama 2019
‘Alive And Well’
sung by “Voice”
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Global - “Alive And
Well” is performed and written by Aaron St.
Louis aka “Voice” and Kasey Phillips.
It is also
the tune of choice for Starlift Steel Orchestra
in the 2019 Trinidad & Tobago Panorama season.
listen to tune
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Web Posted - Monday
January 14, 2019
Trinidad and
Tobago Newsday
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All Stars’ host thanksgiving
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
The sweet sounds of pan rang through the
Holy Rosary Roman Catholic Church yesterday during a
Trinidad All Stars Steel Orchestra’s 25th annual
thanksgiving service.
The band’s junior orchestra played Amazing Grace during the
collection, then during the communion period, the seniors
took up positions behind their pans to play Jim Reeves’
Precious Lord, after which frontline pannist Clive Telemaque
did a soothing rendition of Lord I Lift Your Name On High
(Rick Founds).
And after the reciting of The Panist Prayer the All Stars
played David Rudder’s High Mas for the recessional. After
the special mass, Daryl Joseph, Public Relations Officer of
Massy All Stars told Newsday: “This is the 25th
thanksgiving service that the orchestra has been having at
the church.
read more |
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Web Posted - Monday
January 14, 2019
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Holiday flashback: Barrels to Beethoven event held in Wilkinsburg
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Pennsylvania, USA -
On the heels of a successful holiday
party last month, Barrels to Beethoven — an organization
co-founded by
Leigh Solomon Pugliano and her husband, David
Pugliano, that focuses on the preservation, education and
innovation of the steelpan — is launching a new initiative:
the Wilkinsburg Youth Steel Orchestra.
Fundraising currently is underway for
this new orchestra, which was developed to provide a
comprehensive steelpan music program for children living in
Wilkinsburg and surrounding communities. The program will
train a class of young people to be better musicians,
creatives, collaborators and citizens by using a
contextually underappreciated instrument and narrative.
The program will also follow the
traditional steelpan culture in the Caribbean that allows
young people to develop as musicians through performance
ensembles as a means to preserve art and culture and build a
sense of community.
....“The steelpan has had such a positive
impact on my life and the lives of so of many youth around
the world,” said Ms. Pugliano.
read more |
Web Posted -
Monday January 14, 2019
When Steel Talks
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Song for Panorama 2019
‘Iron Love’
sung by Nailah
Blackman
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Global - Nailah
Blackman’s sultry “Iron Love” is making the
musical rounds for the Carnival season, and is
also the tune of choice for a few steel
orchestras as the 2019 Panorama picks up pace
and bands declare their selections. So far,
Tobago’s Redemption Sound Setters, Arima Angel
Harps and Tamana Pioneers are taking the tune to
competition.
listen to tune
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Web Posted - Sunday
January 13, 2019
Trinidad and
Tobago Newsday
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Pan Elders Struggles
Unsponsored 5-time medium band champs in crunch
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
Five-time medium band champion Pan
Elders’ quest to successfully defend its title for 2019 is
in jeopardy.
Bandleader Hollister Smith told Sunday Newsday that as of
yesterday he did not even have 40 players in his band,
“because everybody want money.” Preliminary judging for the
band from Carib Street, San Fernando is February 10.
Pan Trinbago’s decision to withhold players’ stipend for the
next two years as well as the drying up of assistance from
the successor companies of former state-owned oil company
Petrotrin, once a major sponsor, has adversely affected Pan
Elders' ability to attract players. A medium band can have
up to 75 players for the preliminaries and semi-finals and a
maximum of 90 players in the finals.
read more |
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Web Posted -
Sunday January 13, 2019
When Steel Talks
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Song for Panorama 2019
‘Rag Storm’
sung by “Superblue”
featuring 3 Canal
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Global
- Soca icon Austin
Lyons aka “Blue Boy” aka “Superblue” is back for
the 2019 Carnival season with ‘Rag Storm.’
Teaming up with music vets 3 Canal, the song is
swirling on local air waves in Trinidad &
Tobago. It is also, to date, the tune of
choice in Panorama 2019 for three large steel
orchestras participating in the annual steelband
music competition: Exodus Steel Orchestra,
Silver Stars Steel Orchestra, and Tropical Angel
Harps.
listen to tune
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Web Posted - Sunday
January 13, 2019
Trinidad and
Tobago Newsday
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Duvone’s A-game
Arranger seeks repeat victories for Renegades, Pan
Elders
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
To the uninformed,
Duvone Stewart can seem boastful.
Get to know him, though, and you’ll
realise his apparent cockiness is really an affirmation of
the greatness, he believes, he was destined to claim.
“I have always maintained a stance that I
was born a winner,” an upbeat Stewart, 42, declared in a
Sunday Newsday interview.
“I am living my dream and I am enjoying
my dream and doing what I love doing best, making music and
making people feel happy.”
As the ace arranger for BP
Renegades Steel Orchestra, Stewart
took
the popular Duke Street, Port of Spain band, to victory
with Voice’s (Aaron St Louis’) Year For Love, in last year’s
National Panorama competition – a title it had last clinched
some 21 years before.
read more |
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Web Posted - Saturday
January 12, 2019
LoopTT.com
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Big bands prepping for Panorama as song selections are
revealed
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
The country's top steelbands are getting
ready for Panorama 2019 with many looking to wrest the title
from reigning champs BP Renegades.
While some are still holding their song
selection close to their chest, a few have already revealed
what they will be playing as practice begins in panyards
across the country.
On Friday, some of the big bands revealed
the songs they will be competing with for the annual
competition.
In a video presentation, Renegades
revealed that it will be going with Farmer Nappy's popular
release 'Hooking Meh', the same selection as Supernovas.
Exodus arranger Pelham Goddard announced
to his players on Friday night that they will be playing
Superblue's 'Rag Storm'.
Also on Friday night, Hadco Phase II Pan
Groove held a launch at is panyard to reveal that the band
has chosen Swappi and Ultimate Reject's 'Party Start'.
read more |
Web Posted -
Friday January 11, 2019
When Steel Talks
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Players and Tuners are
People Too
Chronicles of a
Panorama
by Sharmain Baboolal |
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I.
- Acclaimed tuner,
master craftsman, “Birch” Kelman, will be out
for the carnival season. He’s recovering from
surgery.
Who,
besides the bands he works with, is taking note?
He's one man- but a rare foundation stone.
It’s tough
to get quality steel drums in Trinidad & Tobago
to even start to make a pan.
At the
very heart of the thing- even before you get an
instrument for a player- there’s a challenge
that is nearing crisis proportions.
read
more
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Web Posted -
Thursday January 10, 2019
When Steel Talks
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Meet Aquil Arrindell
Musician, Educator & Pan Activist -
UpClose!
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Global
- Aquil Arrindell is
confident that his relentless fight and actions
as they relate to bringing fairness and fair
play to the steelband community in Trinidad and
Tobago will land him on the right side of
history. Buoyed by his own sense of right and
wrong and with his principles as his guide,
Aquil says he is committed to making that
positive difference in the lives of the panists
in Trinidad and Tobago.
He was one
of the central figures in the recent upheaval
and re-make of the Trinidad and Tobago embattled
steelband governing organization Pan Trinbago.
In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks
- panist, administrator, educator and steelpan
advocate - Aquil Arrindell tells it as he sees
it and lets the chips fall where ever they may.
read
more
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Web Posted -
Thursday January 10, 2019
When Steel Talks
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The Carnival is over
by Raffique Shah |
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I.
- I was pleasantly
surprised when the announcement by the National
Carnival Commission that it was scrapping the
North Stand for this year’s Carnival did not
elicit an uproar of objections from stakeholders
in the national festival and hordes of party
animals whose love for steelband music lasts one
day—the National Panorama Semi-Finals.
For all
its symbolic representation of the spirit of
Carnival, crammed as it was (note tense) with
more than its 8,000 maximum capacity, the North
Stand was a colossal waste of taxpayers’ money.
For close to 50 years, ritually, every January,
contractors and hundreds of workers would engage
in a frenetic exercise of erecting the facility,
only to dismantle it two weeks after Carnival.
The cost? Four million dollars.
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more
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Web Posted -
Wednesday January 9, 2019
When Steel Talks
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Bandits Strike
Marsicans Single Pan Band
by Sharmain Baboolal |
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I.
- Thieves climbed
through a very small space between the roof and
the wall at the Marsicans Steel Orchestra
panyard and stole five chromed tenor pans from
the band on Monday night.
That
represents more than half the frontline of nine
tenors for the single pan band, former national
champions, who are practicing for Panorama 2019.
It put the
30-year-old unsponsored band back by TT$25,000,
given the cost of one tenor pan, at its lowest,
is TT$5,000.
read
more
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Web Posted -
Sunday January 6, 2019
When Steel Talks
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Song for Panorama 2019
‘Hookin’ Meh’
sung by “Farmer
Nappy”
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Global
- Internationally
acclaimed Trinidadian soca star Darryl “Farmer
Nappy” Henry celebrates over 30 years in the
soca music industry and his rich legacy as one
of soca’s top entertainers of all time continues
to grow.
....Farmer
Nappy shot to international fame when he was
voted as MTV Iggy’s “Artist of the Week” in
March 2012, following a weeklong voting contest
that placed him against other artists around the
world.
“Hookin’
Meh” features “Farmer Nappy” on vocals, and is
the tune of choice for three steel orchestras to
date in Trinidad & Tobago’s national 2019 Panorama: Supernovas,
defending champions Renegades, St. Margaret’s Superstars, and Kalomo Kings.
listen to tune
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Web Posted - Thursday January 3, 2019
When Steel Talks
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Song for Panorama 2019
‘Gyal Owner’
sung by “Blaxx”
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Global
- Dexter John Stewart,
better known as “Blaxx” started his musical
journey at the tender age age of thirteen, where
his father Jerry Stewart who fielded his own
band called “Jerry and New School” molded the
artist into what we see today.
As one of
the most versatile artists on the Soca scene
today, his music remains in demand. His 2019 hit
“Gyal Owner” is the tune of choice for
Pamberi Steel Orchestra for Panorama 2019.
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From Trump to a World of PAN to Panorama
by Dalton Narine
The madness in the news nowadays tends to seek cover behind politics and life’s only and lonely trail to the nothingness that hangs around that Wall.
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- May blessings shine upon us throughout 2018’s half brother year (Yeah, 18 & 19 are tied at the hip — same ol’ same ol’, for there’s no Trumpian miracle at the core of this No Country for Old Men, so that the years and the madness intertwine America’s No. 1 SUCKER. The real sucker sees the rest of the world as unweaned domestic animals.
Are we, really?
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Early Trinidad and Tobago
Steelbands Names Associated with Hollywood Movies |
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Within the historical context,
a look at the impact of American movies on the naming
of early steelbands of Trinidad and Tobago.
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