Even as Trinbago's four regions engage in preparation for the judging of the National Panorama preliminaries 2002 in the pan yards of competing orchestras, the organisation's president Patrick Arnold has denied that a final ...

George Goddard comments that while the Government of Trinidad and Tobago will be sponsoring a Steelband Conference, it is doubtful that any good would emerge since over the years government has failed to implement the ...

As the steelband movement faces challenges in Trinidad and Tobago, Pan Trinbago's main objective should be becoming an organization that is in full control and successfully managing the business of pan. To deal with these ...

This is Part 2 of a four-part series on the steelband by Nestor Sullivan and Ian "Teddy" Belgrave. The article laments the absence of the steelband from the curricula in schools and the non-performance of the University ...

The Trinidad All Steel Percussion Orchestra (TASPO) has the opportunity to remain in the United Kingdom indefinitely as a entertainment unit appearing in all the best places. However, the Trinidad Government has an important ...

The picture showed that the Festival of Britain Battersea Park (London) fun fair was full on May 12, the first day of the Whitsun holiday. Fifteen thousand people were present and at one time there was a queue of 2,000 ...

The Trinidad and Tobago biennial Steelband Music Festival "Pan is Beautiful Three" begins with nine bands appearing in the first of the preliminary rounds. The Test piece for all conventional bands is "Cosi Fan Tutte" by ...

The article comments on the various pan events on the calendar for the remainder of 1996 which was more than there were for any five year period between 1976 and 1986. Between April and Christmas, only September manages ...

This editorial states that Panorama 1979 has expired amid a cloud of rhetoric and against a backdrop of heightened expectations among steelbandsmen based on promises which appear to have been made by spokesmen for the ...