#pannist

[marklyndersay]

Earl Brooks performed pan instrumentals at The Barrack Yard in 2023. He  has been performing as a pannist for more than 40 years and is 70-years-old. He composed songs for Kurt Allen more than ten years ago, including Doh Meddle with Me, and has remained friends with the calypsonian ever since. In addition to his career as a performer he has arranged for Hatters and the London based steelband Ebony. He arranged for Brimblers in 2023. #pannist #steelband #tent #music #Carnival #arranger #performance #trinidad #trinidadandtobago #tuco #barrackyard #portofspain #tentexperience #motherofallcarnivals #2023 (at Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpc2NVXuKes/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[socaprince]

SOCA THERAPY - OCTOBER 6, 2024

Soca Therapy Playlist

Sunday October 6th 2024

Making You Wine from 6-9pm on Flow 98.7fm Toronto

Party Genie (Dr. Jay Plate) - College Boy Jesse

Kitty Cat - Patrice Roberts

Slip In - Geo

Party In The Road - Skinny Fabulous

Jam Somebody (SMJ Refix) - Jadel

Throwback - Ding Dong x System32

Angel - Imani Ray

Heart of Carnival - V'ghn x MSK MuSiK

How Ah Livin (Muv Short Edit) - Farmer Nappy

Outside Jam - GBM Nutron x DJ Spider 

One Piece - GBM Nutron x Tano

Aye Gyal - Hey Choppi x Chalmer John

Would You - Farmer Nappy

Tabanca - Mical Teja

Situations (GFG Remix) - Coopa Dan x Shaquille GFG

Best Ride - Coopa Dan x DJ Spider

Spirit Waist (Ryan Sayeed & Private Ryan Intro) - DJ Private Ryan x Mela Caribe x Olatunji

Major Damage - Lyrikal x David Rudder

Man Ah Bad Man - Bud

Send Dem Riddim Crazy - Bunji Garlin

Bef La - First Serenade Band

Balance Batty - WCK

Crank It - Krosfyah feat. Edwin Yearwood

Rev De Engine - General Grant

TOP 7 COUNTDOWN - Powered By The Soca Source

Top Songs By Yung Bredda Streamed On Spotify

7. Sugar Waist feat. Kerwin Du Bois

6. Gyal Road feat. Father Philis & Stadic

5. Steamy Service

4. Doggie feat DJ Cheem

3. Trampoline

2. Feel It

1. How You Feeling feat. DJ Hotty

DNA (DJ Kevin Festival Intro Edit) - Mical Teja

Mas Go Play - Erphaan Alves

Ah Love It Here - Ricardo Drue

Is Mas - Patrice Roberts

Feting Family - Shal Marshall

In A Mess - Problem Child

Own It - Imani

In Meh Space - Nadia Batson

Rosie - Destra x Yung Bredda

Fuh Spite - Kes The Band

Can You Feel It - DJ Private Ryan x Terri Lyons

Mash Up - Blaxx

Time Ah We Life (Riddim Master Intro) - Tian Winter

Backbone (Riddim Master Intro) - G Eve

Good Vibes (Riddim Master Intro) - Island Prince

Feeling Nice - Adam O

Tack Back - Kes x Tano

Junction - Coutain x Tano

My Dahlin - Adana Roberts

I Like That - GBM Nutron

Search Party - Preedy

Penthouse - Voice

Life After Fete - Kerwin Du Bois

PAN MOMENTS

Everytime (Pan Cover) - Micheal The Pannist x Joshua Regrello

TANTY TUNE 

(1991) - If I Rude, I Rude (Ruthven) - Devon George

Rude - The Fatha x Trinidad Killa

Rude Ways - Lyrikal

Rude Gyal - Kimba Sorzano

Call Meh - Olatunji

Wine For Meh - Vigilante

We Time - JW & Blaze

In Charge - Machel Montano

Whole Night - L Pank

Trouble In The Morning - V'ghn

Attitude - Holla Bak x Skinny Fabulous

Breakup Song - Adam O

Someone Else - Litleboy x Quan x Trilla G

Sound Check - Mad Skull x Wetty Beatz

Stagga Dance - Natty x Thunda x Muddy

Headways (Lash Up) - Speilberg

Like Yuh Self (Ryan Sayeed's Conceited Intro) - Patrice Roberts x Machel Montano

Pampalam - Faith Callender

Starta Pack - Tionne Hernandez

Round & Rosie (BD "Instructions" Edit) - Nailah Blackman

Last One Standing - Ricardo Drue & D.w.O

Pandemonium - Voice x Natty x Thunda

Carnival Jumbie - Problem Child

NORTHERN PRESCRIPTION

Ou Ou Love - Miguel Maestre

I Dare You - Destra

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[hollisclifton]

The wake of Pannist Norman Andrews aka Sonny Kent @ Antillean Allstars P...

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[tropicalfetebrooklyn]

Virtual Steel Pan Lessons / Tropicalfete

Tropicalfete focus on bringing the magic of Pan to all. We can’t wait to showcase the possibilities that playing Pan can give to people of all ages.

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[bricehammack]

#JuneTeenth2021 #AtlanticOcean #CaribbeanSea #Grenada #Pannists #YoungPannists #Steelpan #SteelDrum #SteelDrumBand #SteelpanBand #NewDimensionSteelOrchestra @NewDimensionSteelOrchestra #55GallonIndustrialDrums #BriceDailyPhoto https://www.instagram.com/p/CQTjHlrhoT1/?utm_medium=tumblr

[lex-2002]

The steelpan (also known as a pan, steel drum, and sometimes, collectively with other musicians, as a steelband or steel orchestra) is a musical instrument originating in Trinidad and Tobago. Steelpan musicians are called pannists.

[izatrini]

Pannists rush for J&J vaccines to beat 'Panorama' deadline - TT Newsday http://dlvr.it/SJCsSB

[delightfullovemusic-blog]

HI! I’m Shanice and i created this blog to share with you all my country, Trinidad and Tobago, National instrument the Steelpan. 

What is a Steelpan? 

Steelpans is a musical instrument originating from Trinidad and Tobago. Steelpan musicians are called pannists. The Modern pan is a chromatically pitched percussion instrument made from 55 gallon industrial drums that formally contained chemicals. 

Drum refers to the steel drum containers from which the pans are made; the steel drum is more correctly called a steel pan or pan as it falls into the idiophone family of instruments, and so is not a drum (which is not a drum. Steelpans are the only instruments made to play in the Pythagorean musical of fourths and fifths.

The pan is struck using a pair of straight sticks tipped with rubber; the size and type of rubber tip varies according to the class of pan being played. Some musicians use four pansticks, holding two in each hand. This skill and performance have been conclusively shown to have grown out of Trinidad and Tobago's early 20th-century Carnival percussion groups known as Tamboo bamboo. The pan is the national instrument of Trinidad and Tobago.

[havatabanca]

[marklyndersay]

Call her professor, please.  Mia Gormandy-Benjamin completed her Doctorate in Philosophy (Musicology) at Florida State University after taking a Master's Degree in steelpan performance at Northwestern Illinois University and a second Masters in music performance at FSU.  Gormandy-Benjamin joined Trinidad All Stars, as they were known then, at the age of nine and performed in Panorama at ten. Since then, she has had a meteoric rise through the movement charting a modern course for herself with the instrument.  Beyond performance, she is dedicated to  creating a strong academic base for the steelpan in her role as Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Trinidad and Tobago.  When I met her at the UTT on a Sunday morning, I was interrupting her participation in a meeting for the photos needed to accompany a profile on her for this month's Caribbean Beat (Stories in Steel, linked in profile).  After exploring two of the three setups I mapped in the large pannists' rehearsal room, I got to the last one, a photo that celebrated her as a woman as well as a pan scholar.  "It's not often that I get to use beauty lighting on a pannist," I joked, perhaps a bit inappropriately. Gormandy-Benjamin took the jest in stride and killed the look for a photo that, regrettably, didn't get chosen for publication.   #archive #newwork #lyndersaydigital #steelband # #trinidad #pannist #musician #carnival #trinidadandtobago #digitalphotography #music #musicologist #steelpan #napa #portofspain #professor #thelyndersayarchive #trinidadcarnival (at UTT Port Of Spain NAPA) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv5NutKAhxD/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=145yqf30udsc5

[socaprince]

CARIBBEAN CONNECTION WITH RADIO LEGEND JAI - SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Caribbean Connection with Radio Legend Jai

Saturday September 21st 2024

Special Guest Host 9pm - 12am on CHIN Radio 100.7fm

We Having A Party - Baron

Come With It - Black Stalin

Party Lover - Scrunter Get Up & Dance - Leston Paul & The New York Connection Jahaji Bhai - Brother Marvin

Dhantal Fever - Second Imij Nah Leaving - Denyse Plummer Sweet T&T - Natasha Tobago Girl - The Mighty Sparrow Ah Trini 360 Dat Like It - Benjai x Lord Nelson

Love You So - Orlando Octave Keep Up - Marlon Asher Holiday - Problem Child Hot Gyal Anthem - GBM Nutron

Arch - Rhea Layne

In The Center - GBM Nutron x Farmer Nappy Night & Day (Dr. Jay Plate) - Th3rd

Keep My Cool - Kes Cut Meh Loose - Kes x Travis World 1 On 1 - Jimmy October Body Language - Michael The Pannist Madame Jeffrey - Scrunter Carmenante - Baron Hush Your Mouth - Kenny J. Tanty (Remix) - Scrunter Luv Up - Shandileer feat Carl Jacobs

Mih Lover - Lord Nelson Feeling Nice - Adam O Bless Me - GBM Nutron On Fire - Nessa Preppy Party And Fun (Clean) - Problem Child BYE x2 - Saddis x Jus Jay King Life After Fete (MUV Short Edit) - Kerwin Du Bois Everytime - Nadia Batson Look Meh Friend (BD Certified Edit) - Patrice Roberts Bottle - Bunji Garlin Inventor - Olatunji In A Mess - Problem Child Is Mas - Patrice Roberts Own It - Imani Feting Family - Shal Marshall Mas Go Play - Erphaan Alves Play Mas - Teddyson John x Lyrikal

The Greatest Feeling - Voice x Leadpipe x Saddis Greatness - V'ghn How Ah Livin - Farmer Nappy Bless - Moses Revolution feat Shyann Bailey Nat U (Quest Edit) - Claudette Peters Fuh Spite - Kes                 Rum Sweet - Problem Child

Weh Yuh Want (Soca Baby) - Prezzi Don Welcome Back - Imani Ray Happy Daze - Nailah Blackman Trajectory - Bunji Garlin Yuh Lie - Added Rankin Small Pin (Jumbie Horn Edit) - Becket

Party Bad - Mr Legz x Killa

Jump And Wave - Preacher Jump & Wave - John King Signal To Lara - Superblue

Wave It Low - Natasha

Have Ah Time - General Grant

Bumper - DJ Grandmaster

Kaka Lay Lay - Denise Belfon

Footsteps - Xtatik feat Wayne Rodriguez

Sweet - Flex

Oh Suzanna - Atlantik feat Peter C Lewis

Ripe Plantain - Barbados Troubadours

Rudeness On De Road - New Direction

Handbrake - Zulu Lightning

Hold Up Your Foot - Zulu Lightning

Put Your Hand On Your Head (And Wine) - Sound Rev feat Derrick Seales

Breakaway - Traffik

Frustration - Earplay

On De Road - Massive Chandileer feat Ronnie MacIntosh

Best Self - Nailah Blackman x Lyrikal Today - Bunji Garlin Tomorrow - Brucelee Almightee In Ha Back - Megabite Bam Bam Wall - Motto x Fire Strypz Bam Bam - Lil Rick Whistle While You Work (Clean) - Triple Kay

Shake Your Pampalam - Asa Banton

Someone Else - Litleboy x Quan x Trilla G BOTS (Battle Of The Sexes) - Problem Child

Next # In Line (Clean) - Added Rankin Blessed - Kennie Montana

Carnival Jumbie - Problem Child

The Moment (Dr. Jay Plate) - Muddy The Tape (Dr. Jay Plate) - Dash

Pampalam (Dr. Jay Plate) - Faith Callendar

Starta Pack (Dr. Jay Plate) - Tionne Hernandez

Beatin Road (Dr. Jay Plate) - Preedy Ah Di Iron (Dr. Jay Plate) - Drastic 

Anxiety (Dr. Jay Plate) - Patrice Roberts

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[burlveneer-music]

Jonathan Scales Fourchestra - Mindstate Music - a steel drum orchestra

One year after the release of PILLAR, Jonathan Scales Fourchestra presents Mindstate Music - a concise, but musically dense instrumental journey that explores six psychological states of composer/steel pannist Jonathan Scales. Inspired by true events in Scales’ personal life, this music is intended to be something of an emotional release. The real-life, off-stage vulnerabilities and insecurities of the internationally respected artist are orchestrated here for the curiously adventurous listener to dive into. Mindstate Music finds the Fourchestra in the middle of a steel drum orchestra for the first time, exploring that lush, sonic pallet while staying true to Scales’ unique writing style. While movements like “The Maze” and “The Mad” showcase the Fourchestra’s signature style of mind-twisting, grooving complexities, a real sense of human frailty is exposed on pieces like “The Mean” and “The Mud”. For true fans of Jonathan Scales Fourchestra, Mindstate Music is a momentary glimpse into the artist’s head & heart, beyond the bounds of the music.

Musicians: Jonathan Scales - double second steel pans (soloist) E’Lon JD - bass guitar Maison Guidry - drums Louis Raymond-Kolker - tenor pan Audrey Holden - tenor pan Jeff Jones - tenor pan Diana Loomer - tenor pan Lauren Molloy - tenor pan Vance Umphrey - double second pans Jonah Payne - double second pans Jonathan Scales - double second pans Wyatt Bradford - guitar pans Eric Luke - cello pans Yuko Asada - bass pans Jonathan Scales - triangle, tambourine, low toms, suspended cymbal River Guerguerian - congas, bongos, shakers, cow bell, & silkworm cocoon rattles on “The Man”

[lafiyahenry]

Doing the Damn Thing!

I think we can all agree that the term “creative” is a tad bit overused at this point. Everywhere you turn there is a “creative” on the corner but I am not saying that to dispute who is or isn’t a creative. I am explaining why I still subscribe to the label. I still label myself as a creative because there isn’t another name to call what it is that I do, which is very simple: create. 

According to the degree that I’m studying, I’m an actress. According to the people that have known me forever, I’m a musician. A pannist. If you ask some people, I’m a dancer and then I’m a writer to some. I’m saying all of this to say that all are correct. I have done/ do all of these things. When I introduce myself, I can’t fit all these things into one sentence so I’d rather just say “creative”. I was recently listening to one of my two favorite podcasts at the moment which is “Recess: Creative Convos”  and this exact thing was discussed. Many artists don’t only just do one thing and honestly I hate when people ask me to label myself or my art. As Lou, one of the founding members of Freetown Collective said, most times people want to to label what it is that you do so they could sell it. I don’t want to label what I do. I don’t think it needs a label. I just want to do what feels right to me. I want to push the boarders of my creativity and see how best I can translate the story that I want to tell, whether it be in videos, through music, or in a play. 

But what a time to be a Creative in Trinidad and Tobago! Is it not? Some amazing things are happening right here on this little island. I have never been more hopeful for our future creative industry. It is because I am hopeful, I feel so inspired to write this as well. If you are an artist in Trinidad and Tobago you know how tough this industry is. You know that a lot of times people don’t see what we do as a respected job and there is this whole narrative about “the struggling artist” because that has been the reality for a very long time but I can see things changing. I see a shift happening, especially coming from my generation. We are tired of the way that things are, we are no longer begging for seats at a table, we’re creating our own. A country like Trinidad and Tobago has soooo much talent that the general public have not taken notice of. For a long time your talent would only be recognized if you were a soca artiste or if your talent was marketable for the Carnival season. Now we have artists like, Erphaan Alves who have been pushing for soca to be released and played year-round, not just three months out of the year. We have artists like Freetown Collective and Jimmy October that don’t have the traditional “soca/ calypso” sound but we love their music and enjoy the hell out of it. Even though it’s so easy to focus on the negatives, there are things starting to go in the right direction. This is not me saying by any degree that our industry is “fixed” or “solved” by a long run, because it isn’t. I’m just grateful to see people who are out here doing the damn things when it comes to our culture and our artform. 

For the last section of this post, I would like to shout out all the Caribbean Creatives who have been doing the damn thing and inspiring me to push on with my art! 

Firstly, Kamron and D’Andre, the hosts of “Recess:Creative Convos”. I find it very ironic that I followed both of them on Instagram even before this podcast aired because the work that they did inspired me and then they came together to create this amazing piece of art that Trinidad desperately needed. I applaud ya’ll! I thank God for ya’ll! Ya’ll are doing the damn thing and I hope that you continue to #TalkDeTings! I intend to go more in-depth about the podcasts that I’ve been listening to so look out for me mentioning them again. 

Alexia James is the host of “Diary of a 20 Somethin’” which is the other favorite podcast that I aforementioned earlier. I am so glad that things like this exist, not only to share information to clueless young adults but to also be reassured that we’re not alone. We are not the only ones going through this Caribbean experience or struggling to find our way in business et cetera. I love that we as Caribbean youths now have these outlets. I will also speak more about this podcast later! 

My first experience with Freetown Collective was in a University of the West Indies lecture hall, for one of the courses called Caribbean Lab. I was doing my Certificate in Theatre in 2016, and seeing them and hearing them speak was like a splash of cold water on my face, waking me up to all the possibilities that a Caribbean artist could be. They were the example I didn’t know I needed. I needed to see people like them doing the damn thing. Creating and not conforming to anything that people thought they should be. I have loved them forever. Thank you for having them on your show Kam & D! 

Other young Caribbean Creatives that have been inspiring me to create, in no particular order whatsoever: 

Coutain, Jimmy October, Omar Jarra, Kriston Koon Koon, Kirk Garner, Luigi Creese, Azariel Pedro, Judah Chrichlow and many others that I may have just forgotten as I am writing this. I love you guys, please keep doing what you are doing. You have no idea the amount of people you’re inspiring by just doing what you do. 

Love, 

Lafiya.