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Sensational Sunday: Soca Monarch semis in Savannah
On Sunday, 69 artistes will take to the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port-of-Spain, to compete in the 2016 International Soca Monarch (ISM) semi-finals. Yes, this year things are quite different with those...
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Steel on the Savannah
Panorama is outgrowing the Queen’s Park Savannah but there’s no alternative venue to stage this premier annual steelband competition, which was born at this venue in 1963. This and other challenges...
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40 face the judges
Three of the best calypsoes I have heard this year will not be performed tomorrow at Skinner Park, San Fernando, when Trinbago Unified Calypsonians Organisation (Tuco) stages the Calypso Fiesta...
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Youths shine in pan and calypso Monarch competitions
In the wake of much criticism on social media about the paucity of soca music for 2016, the youth of the nation are not only shining but are restoring hope that traditional calypso and pan are in safe...
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The Greatest Show on Earth is Finally Here
Well, it’s finally here, Carnival 2016. After an intense month of pre-festival events and activity, our annual national festival reaches fever pitch this weekend, with the staging of International Soca...
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Tributes pour in for Joey Lewis
Musical legend Joey “Pal” Lewis, 78, died yesterday.Lewis was admitted to the Community Hospital in Cocorite and diagnosed as having a growth in his colon in 2011. In August 2012 he began chemotherapy...
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Carnival 2016 gets a Pass Mark
After much revelry and merrymaking, hopefully we can all settle down to the supposedly peaceful and reflective period of Lent, complete with sacrifices for 40 days, most of which will be broken....
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A weekend of Joy and Sorrow
The weekend past was a bittersweet one, saddened by the deaths of veteran musician Joey Lewis and Japanese pan player Asami Nagakiya but brightened with Saturday night’s staging of Champs of Steel...
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Phagwa Festival Begins in Central
The activity-packed Carnival period is slowly subsiding with fewer entertainment events being held. Having flocked to the beaches these past few weekends following the reign of the Merry Monarch, the...
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Bigford interprets local songs
Born and raised in the rural south-western community of La Brea, Vaughnette Bigford still resides there, a five-minute drive from where she was born. “I am a born and bred country girl with no desire...
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The Grand Dame of Pan
Ursula Tudor is referred to as “a veteran diva of pan” having played the national instrument for the past six decades. She began her romance with pan with Serenaders, led by Sylvan Grant, at Mapp...
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Parris the warrior teen
Kayla Parris, 16, is the daughter of Simone Coelho and Jordan Parris, and is a Form Four student at Bishop Anstey High School (BAHS). Resident in Champs Fleurs, she is an inspiring poet who has already...
View ArticleLove for pan-playing Mayor
Newly installed Port-of-Spain mayor Kerron Valentine received special mention when the Northern Region of Pan Trinbago Inc held its Evening of Appreciation last Friday at the VIP Lounge, Queen’s Park...
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Jazzing up the Greens
Last Saturday, Production One Ltd (POL) staged one of the best editions of its 14-year-old Jazz Artists on the Greens. Staged at the Wasa sporting facility in St Joseph, the event attracted a large...
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Festival of Drums at the Big Black Box
Elliott Francois is a musician, a drummer actually with rapso band 3Canal for the past 11 years. He is one the people behind Saturday’s Drummerville Rhythm Festival being held at The Big Black Box,...
View ArticleWhy no pan in Tobago jazz?
Pan Trinbago president Keith Diaz is angry with the organisers of the Tobago Jazz Experience “for not making the national instrument a premier item on its programme” for the 2016 event. “This the third...
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Calypso Rose meets Major Lazer
A Major Lazer remix, three singles, three videos and a huge promotional tour in Europe. No, it’s not Justin Beiber’s schedule, but that of veteran calypsonian Calypso Rose. The 75-year-old —regarded by...
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Spirits soar on cricket, football and pan
The weekend past was a most exhilarating one, euphoria emerging from several sources. Actually, the weekend high began as early as Tuesday when the Soca Warriors blitzed St Vincent and the Grenadines...
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Point Fortin for pan, mas and kaiso
“Point Fortin Borough Day Festival brings more people to T&T than Carnival, and Caribbean Airlines wouldn’t even contribute a red cent to a national event that is making money for them,” said Point...
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International Jazz Panyard Jam Session
Right on the heels of the Tobago Jazz Experience, in celebration of International Jazz Day, Phase II Pan Groove Steel Orchestra and HADCO will present an International Jazz Panyard Jam Session at its...
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