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 A Night with the Champs - Carnival Lagniappe 2023 - Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago - Live Interactive Stream with the videographer. Watch 6:00pm EST https://www.panonthenet.com/tnt/2023/videos/etal/champs-in-concert-lagniappe-radicle-tube.htm

Applause to Khan Cordice The Cabinet expressed its applause to Khan Cordice for his remarkable show of expertise by being the Drill Master and Conductor for the Trinidad Exodus Steelband that earned second place in that country's Panorama competition. Khan Cordice Relevant content Watch Trinidad & Tobago Panorama Finals 2023

Trinidad Express  ‘I eh come here for no stand-up’ ‘Significant’ awards: Soca artistes Bunji Garlin and his wife Fay-Ann Lyons-Alvarez pose for a photo at Terrace on the Park in Queens, New York, USA, on Wednesday night before they were both presented with icon awards and inductions into the Young, Gifted and Black (YGB) Entrepreneurial Awards Hall of Fame. See complete article

THE LEGEND RESPONDS: Social media announced Peter Minshall's 'death' on Carnival Tuesday, when he was very much alive. But the outpouring of love and anguish allowed Minshall an opportunity to see exactly what people thought of his life and work. His has since responded, in a way only Peter Minshall could. Peter Minshall

 

 

Newsday - Editorial  THE SUGGESTION made by Pan Trinbago president Beverly Ramsey-Moore that the children's Carnival should be moved to make way for holding only the Panorama competition at the Queen’s Park Savannah on Carnival Saturday was tactless and surprising. The National Carnival Commission (NCC) and the organisers of the festival should be open to change. Anything that can improve the festival going forward should be embraced, not resisted. Without advancements, our Carnival, which is only now getting back on its feet after the interregnum of the pandemic, will be left behind. But change should not be at the sacrifice of one key element over the other. While Ms Ramsey-Moore was right on Saturday to be frustrated by the late start of the Panorama final, the blame for this should not be placed on the Junior Parade of Bands. She attributed this to a “security sweep” that had to be done of the venue after the parade. See  more

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This is a live stream from Trinidad and Tobago. Parade Of The Bands 2023 - Monday  Watch now

  Panorama 2023 This is a complete playlist with all thirteen large steel orchestras performances 

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Dimanche Gras: Calypso Monarch Finals - Kings & Queens Finals 2023  Watch Stream

Roxborough Kiddies Carnival 2023

  Panorama Championships - 1982, 1984, 1985, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2018, 2019, 2023 2023 Tune of choice:   “ Black Man Feeling To Party ”    |  arranger:    Duvone Stewart

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Children’s Costume Parade (Parade Ground to National Park), Junior Calypso & Soca Monarch (National Stadium) and Adult Calypso Monarch (National Stadium)

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Minister of Tourism, Culture and the Arts, Senator the Honourable Randall Mitchell along with President of Pan Trinbago, Beverly Ramsey-Moore distributed grant funding for 153 unsponsored Steelbands, 8 cultural organisations, and remittances to Steelpan players participating in Panorama for Carnival 2023 during a small ceremony at the VIP Lounge, Queen’s Park Savannah on February 16, 2023. Unsponsored Steelbands For Carnival 2023, Cabinet has approved grants payable in the sum of $15,000.00 per band for unsponsored Conventional Bands and $7,500 per band in support of unsponsored Single Pan Bands. These grants were made available to a total of 94 Conventional bands and 59 Single Pan Bands – in the amount of $1,852,500.00. Steelpan Player Remittances Cabinet has also approved remittances to be paid to each Steelpan player participating in the Panorama 2023 competition in the amount of $500 per player. To this end $3,200,000 has been paid to the NCC to execute the payments per p

Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The final thirteen steel orchestras in the Large category of the 2023 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama compete February 18 for the championship. The venue is the Queen's Park Savannah, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. The show is expected to be broadcast and live streamed; showtime is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. AST (Atlantic Standard Time). See Stream

  Katzenjammers Steel Orchestra - picture from the office of the Chief Secretary - THA Arranger : Kersh Ramsey Tune of choice: Tell Me Why  (Baron) Related content Panorama 2023 Finals Performance Clips - Medium Steel Orchestras

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Live stream from TTT (Trinidad and Tobago Television) of the Panorama  Medium Steel Orchestras FINALS expected here in two hours time (EST).  Right now (circa 4:00 pm EST) - there is a rebroadcast of the Semi-finals running. See stream

Magnifique Improvisation de Monsieur Charles Remion au studio JR Martinique 

  Skinner Park Calypso Fiesta 2023 - photo by TUCO Related content  Watch in entirety - Coverage of the 2023 Calypso Fiesta Semi-Finals

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Lyrics Black Stalin - Caribbean Man ⦑ Verse 1 ⦒ Yuh try with a Federation De whole thing end in confusion Caricom and then Carifta But somehow ah smelling disaster Mister West Indian politician Ah mean yuh went to big institution An' how come yuh cyar unite seven million? When a West Indian unity I know is very easy If yuh only rap to yuh people An' tell dem like me ⦑ Chorus ⦒ Dem is one race (the Caribbean man) From de same place (the Caribbean man) Dat make de same trip (the Caribbean man) On dе same ship (the Caribbean man) So wе must push one common intention For a better life in the region For we woman An' we children Dat must be the ambition of the Caribbean man, the Caribbean man ⦑ Verse 2 ⦒ Yuh say dat the Federation Was imported quite from England An' yuh going and form a Carifta With a true West Indian flavour But since Carifta started runnin' Morning, noon and night all I hearin' Is just money speech dem Prime Ministers givin' But I say no setta m

  Engine Room ENGINE ROOM Hear the tenors rolling... people on the floor Hear the guitar pan grumble... and the crowd in a uproar All of a sudden every just up and chill. ...everything just gone to a standstill The crowd start to cuss... hear them... what wrong with the band It was the ramp with the iron gone and Fall because the vibration buss way the welding When the iron fall... it humble the pan And everything start to crawl everything start to fall As the dream was plainly seen The engine room... is down there where does cause the bacchanal The pan is the body but the rhythm is heart of the thing The engine room... that is the soul of Carnival Corey did damn well say if your iron good you is King... you hear Check your grandmother... talking to she neighbour next door If the times didn't change up... all now we woulda still be in big war That is the same woman who put out your Mother because she was in love with this pan man She used to open the church door... just to pray on

 

Rest in Everlasting Peace Michael Franco, Captain of PROMAN Starlift Steel Orchestra 2021-2023 It is with a very heavy heart that we inform you that our beloved Captain, Michael Franco passed away this afternoon. Mr. Franco was fiercely proud of you and proud of Starlift. Even as he courageously struggled with his health, his foremost thoughts were with the band and with you. Please keep him and his family in your thoughts and prayers. May his soul rest in eternal peace. From the news desk of Starlift Steel Orchestra Related content Starlift Steel Orchestra - History & Bio