Monday, March 8, 2010
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
Friday, February 26, 2010
29th Biennial Trinidad and Tobago Music Festival
The finals of the 29th Biennial Trinidad and Tobago Music Festival will be officially launched with a gala celebration at Queen’s Hall from 7.00 pm this Sunday. The show is being hosted under the Patronage of President George Maxwell Richards.
The finals will begin on Monday March 1, 2010 at Queen’s Hall from 9.00 am, with the festival to officially close on March 19, 2010. The musical accompanists for the festival are: Lindy Ann Bodden Ritch, Jerome Din Chong, Kenneth Listhrop, Sheldon Morales, Haywood Michens, Candace Moore and Natasha Sealy Worrell. The three adjudicators from the United States are: Dr. John Paul Johnson, School of Music, Wichita State University, Dr. Jan Harrington and Dr. Carmen Helena Tellez of the School of Music, Indiana University.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Victorious duo JW & Blaze "Palancing" their way to victory!
Dynamic radio personalities Jason ’JW’ Williams and Ancil ’Blaze’ Isaac have created double history by being the first disc jockeys to win both the International Soca Monarch and Road March titles.
JW and Blaze’s 2010 hit ’Palance’ was played a total of 417 times on Carnival Monday and Tuesday at the Queen’s Park Savannah’s main judging point, according to a tally conducted by the National Carnival Commission yesterday.
Now that the Palance DJ's have taken care of the Trinidad scene do you think that their palancing would have an impact on Vinci-Mass?
If you don't know it Carnival in St. Vincent and the Grenadines is celebrated from June 27 to July 7 and is popularly known as Vinci-Mas. Let's see if the dynamic duo will have the same impact in St. Vincent like they did in Trinidad and Tobago's Carnival 2K10.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
"C" TV on the loose threatens Gayelle and WACK
This is a precedent that we cannot allow to be set. No body, no organization, can buy the entire Carnival. A judging point or judging points maybe, but the whole ah town? This is not over. It has only just begun.
Here is the thing CTNT has failed miserably with this product that they attempted to profit from. We need to know if "C" really paid for this license or was it granted to them by the government because it is a government owned entity. No one knows if the entire process went to tender before one credible entity was awarded this special license over the Carnival celebrations.
Wack and Gayelle are unaware of any tendering process and we now have to conclude that this was a "gift"granted by the NCC (with Government's permission). The other very sad thing here is that now we realize that Pan Trinbago, TUCO and the NCBA don't own the rights for their respective bodies. This apparently belongs to the NCC to do what they believe is best.
Now let's say that "C" Television did in fact pay for the exclusive rights to these shows the logical question would be "how much money did the respective bodies get for the granting of those rights?"
The only people whom are speaking are the people hurt by the actions of the NCC and "C" TV. Sprangalang was livid on WACK today and Errol Fabien is really hurt (video above from YouTube).
"C" does nothing for our culture by promoting only foreign products (shows) and for two days in the year plus a few other shows they want (and were given) exclusive rights to transmit? Indeed we have put the cart in front of the horse. The Culture people were slapped about the place and now to add insult to injury no one from the government is commenting regarding this travesty.
Supporting "C" television is a vote for foreign dominance and the death of our culture. Now because of those exclusive rights granted to "C" we cannot hear or see those recorded performances. It is bad enough that people paid to see and could not but now we have lost the right to see the recorded product... What a disgrace; it is indeed a crying shame!
