Browsing by Author "Joseph, Terry"

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    $100,000 for Pan Chutney… But 'Jahaaji Bhai' Banned
    (Express, 19-Apr-96) Joseph, Terry; The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
    Steelbands participating in this year's Pan Chutney Festival stand to win up to $100,000 in prizes, but none of them can play "Jahaaji Bhai" which the organisers have ruled to be pure soca and not "chutney" for the purposes of this competition.
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    $1M Home For Pan
    (Express, 26-Jun-95) Joseph, Terry; The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
    According to Port-of-Spain Mayor Ethelbert Paul, the national musical instrument will have a million dollar home on some five acres of land by the Mucurapo Freeway. Works Minister Colm Imbert promised that upon receipt of the land, the ministry is prepared to identify $1 million for the new headquarters for pan. Owen Serrette, Pan Trinbago President stated that it was the best news for the steelband movement.
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    24 to Ramajay
    (Express, 13-Jul-96) Joseph, Terry; The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
    Only one steelband has been able to field two ensembles in this year's Pan Ramajay competition. Courts Laventille Sounds Specialists is entering both their Power House group and an ensemble called the Classic Connection in the preliminaries.
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    All Stars Sunshine Award to Stay in NY.
    (Express, 5-Nov-99) Joseph, Terry; The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
    This article highlights the award given to Neal and Massy Trinidad All Stars by the Calypso and Steelband Music Awards Inc. at the 11th Annual Sunshine Awards. The article mentions Leon "Smooth" Edwards and Neville Jules.
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    All Stars: Fit to be Winners
    (Express, 2-Mar-96) Joseph, Terry; The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
    Neal and Massy Trinidad All Stars won the inaugural Pan and Mas competition and has gone home with the whopping $100,000 first prize. In this competition, the bands had to perform as both musicians and masquerade producers. To win the biggest prize ever in the history of steelband competitions is a status befitting the Neal and Massy Trinidad All Stars.
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    Arnold Back as Pan Boss
    (Express, 30-Oct-00) Joseph, Terry; The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
    Patrick Arnold was re-elected for a second term as president of Pan Trinbago. Nester Sullivan also ran for the post.
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    Bajan Invasion' in Pan Too
    (Express, 30-Jan-96) Joseph, Terry; The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
    Steelbands have begun to take advantage of an old rule that Panorama selections need not be tunes composed by nationals of Trinidad and Tobago. This year's listing shows that there has been a slight swing toward tunes coming out of Barbados. The preference for these songs was demonstrated by party crowds over the Christmas season.
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    Band Members Rise Up Against Pan Trinbago
    (Express, 25-Sep-99) Joseph, Terry; The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
    Prominent attorney, Theodore Guerra, stated that his clients is comprised of 70 per cent of the members of Pan Trinbago would, if necessary, get a court order to compel the organisation's executive to hold an election by the end of next month. Of the 192 bands registered with Pan Trinbago, about 135 have signed a petition drawn up by Guerra on the instruction of the caucus that piloted the move. The petition, which is scheduled to be delivered early next week, demands that the Pan Trinbago executive holds a general meeting within 14 days of receipt.
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    Bertie Marshall for Sunshine Hall of Fame
    (Express, 23-Oct-98) Joseph, Terry; The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
    For a man who has been responsible for a series of improvements to the sound and presentation of pan music over the past three decades, Bertie Marshall has never quite received his fair share of appreciation. Gil Figaro, founder of the Sunshine Awards, says his organisation is seeking to correct this cultural oversight.
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    Big Business Snub Pan Festival
    (Express, 19-Sep-00) Joseph, Terry; The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
    Local corporate sponsors have been reluctant to support the 2009 World Steelband Music Festival. Apart from Caribbean Communications Network (CCN), National Broadcasting Network (NBN), Radio 97 and the Cascadia Hotel, local private sector corporations, State enterprises and independent businesses are yet to respond positively to repeated requests for financial assistance.
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    Bradley Trains Arrangers
    (Express, 3-Jul-96) Joseph, Terry; The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
    Champion arranger Clive Bradley, completed the second programme of lectures and workshops for steelband arrangers which was sponsored by the San Fernando Corporation.
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    Brotherhood of the Pan
    (Express, 24-Oct-96) Joseph, Terry; The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
    The panyard of the Amoco Renegades Steel Orchestra devoted itself to full theatre, as the Malik Folk Performers combined with calypsonians and the host band to put on a command performance for the visiting fellow pannists of the Swiss National Steelband. The Swiss, here for the World Steelband Festival - Pan is Beautiful VIII, participated fully.
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    Christmas Comes Early for Panazz Players
    (Express, 1-Aug-99) Joseph, Terry; The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
    Panazz Players recreated a Christmas mood, as the band put down tracks for their next album at Studio Rob in the Caribbean Sound Basin. The ten-track album of popular seasonal selections cost the band some TT$100,000. Bandleader Barry Bartholomew said “we went for the traditional Christmas music and looked for songs that would have international appeal".
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    Countdown to Panorama: The Saddest Hattrick
    (Express, 2-Feb-96) Joseph, Terry; The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
    Len "Boogsie" Sharpe, who has taken Phase II Pan Groove to two dozen Panoramas, will miss his third Panorama due to difficulties with the law in the US, where he is based. Sharpe could not be released from probation in the US to come home to complete the song he started with the band.
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    Cut This Out… Pan for All Seasons
    (Express, 19-Apr-96) Joseph, Terry; The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
    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 to escape the sound of the musical instrument.
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    Damp Opener for Pan Jazz VII
    (Express, 11-Nov-95) Joseph, Terry; The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
    Terry Joseph reviews the Pan Jazz VII Festival. Joseph claimed that while opening night of Pan Jazz VII there were no more than 1,000 faithful fans at the Spektakula Forum, the final act suffered from major attrition resulting in no more than three or four hundred people being present for the final note.
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    Despite poor Queen’s Hall Acoustics Patasar Triumphs At Pan Jazz
    (Sunday Express, 13-Nov-94) Joseph, Terry; The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
    Bad sound reproduction and inordinately long set changes marred an otherwise interesting weekend of Pan Jazz.
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    Disqualified Phase II Say They Have…A Case in Point
    (Express, 9-May-96) Joseph, Terry; The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
    Members of Phase II Pan Groove Steel Orchestra are fuming over the band's disqualification from the "Pan on the Move" competition, particularly because they were led to believe that the band won all categories of the contest. Phase II Pan Groove had fielded 68 members, eight in excess of the maximum agreed upon by the bands but no officials from Pan Trinbago cautioned the band about having too many players.
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    Europeans flock to Paris Pan Festival
    (Express, 3-May-00) Joseph, Terry; The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
    Bands from Britain, France, Finland, Switzerland and Germany competed in a preliminary round in May 2000 to get to World Steelband Music Festival in Trinidad in October 2000. Judges were Dr. Anne Osborne, Dr. Richard Murphy and Dr. Eugene Novotney.
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    Exodus in Cyber Battle for Pan Ramajay Name
    (Express, 6-Aug-00) Joseph, Terry; The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
    Creators and producers of indigenous artistic and cultural products are being warned to secure their identifiers in cyberspace, in order to avoid theft by foreigners. The warning comes from the Exodus Steel Orchestra, creators and producers of the annual Pan Ramajay concerts, now that the organisation has found itself locked in an argument with Tom Miller over the use of the Pan Ramajay name for a website.