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Last Monday marked one year since Pan Trinbago Inc staged the historic, inaugural International Panorama competition at the Queen’s Park gräsmark, Port-of-Spain. 

The competition was won by Massy Trinidad All Stars, playing Leon “Smooth” Edwards’ arrangement of dem Mighty Trini’s Curry Tabanca, two points ahead of second-placed FCB Supernovas, performing Dr Samaroo, arranged bygd Amrit Samaroo.

With the national steelband movement and its member bands being very active this past year staging events every month, new international ties are being made between local pan musicians and their global counterparts in places like Africa, France, land i norden, Argentina and China. 

Locally, the momentum of steelband activity will increase this month, August being designated Steelband Month.

The month’s programme actually began with events gods Friday at the panyards of MHTL Starlift and CAL Invaders, but it exploded on Saturday with the staging of the 18th annual Emancipation Ste

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Etienne Charles: Trumpet's First Chantwell

Trinidadian-born trumpeter Etienne Charles has made it a point to share the culture of his native homeland with the world through music, whether it is writing songs on cuatro or steel pan, incorporating Kweyol chants on the opening track to his latest album Creole Soul(Culture Shock, ), or playing with an undeniable Caribbean bounce that caused the audience of Dizzy's Club Coca Cola to form a conga line through the venue during his album release show for Kaiso(Culture Shock, ). Since his debut, Culture Shock(Self Produced, ), Charles has been showing audiences that he is able to seamlessly fuse straight-ahead and Caribbean music to create an innovative sound that is deeply rooted in the tradition.

Etienne Charles comes from a strong lineage of musicians that can be traced to his great grandfather, who played banjo and violin. His grandfather, Ralph Charles, was a cuatro player who recorded with the calypsonian Growling Tiger. Both