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Patricia Alison "Pat" Bishop TC (6 May 1940 – 20 August 2011) was a Trinidadian educator, music director, artist and cultural icon. She was one of the first women to arrange for steelbands and was the recipient of the Trinity Cross, the highest of the National Awards of Trinidad and Tobago .
Aug 20, 2011 · Pat Bishop/Trinidad and Tobago. Dr. Patricia Allison Bishop. TC, H.B.M., BA Hons. (Fine Art), MA (history), Hon. D. Litt. DATE OF BIRTH:1940. PLACE OF BIRTH:Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. DIED:August 20, 2011. Her father was a musician, her mother was a dressmaker and fashion designer and her sister Gillian is a jewellery designer.
Nov 7, 2018 · Pat Bishop was one of the most versatile of Caribbean women - a true cultural icon. A citizen of Trinidad and Tobago by birth, she was a National Scholarship winner from the Bishop Anstey High School. For many, Pat was a figure to be regarded with awe and amazement.
Sep 1, 2020 · Trini Good Media was commissioned by the National Gas Company’s Above and Beyond Programme to produce Pat Bishop – A Life, a five-part series that looks at various aspects of her life – intellectualism, art, music and legacy.
Dec 4, 1999 · Arranger, Composer, Ethnomusicologist. Born to a solid middle-class family in one of Port of Spain's quieter suburbs, Pat (christened Patricia) Bishop's early youth hinted nothing of the grand passion the steel pan and steel pan people would become in her life.
Aug 21, 2011 · Trinidad and Tobago’s cultural icon Pat Bishop passed away yesterday. Ms. Bishop, who was attending a meeting with a cabinet-appointed committee of high level experts on culture and the arts, collapsed from her chair. She died while at hospital where doctors’ attempt to revive her proved futile. The cause of her death remains unknown at…
Aug 29, 2011 · Trinidad and Tobago recently lost, arguably, its most talented musician – Dr. Patricia Bishop. From pan arranger to the leader of esteemed, local choir The Lydians, her talent and influence on music in Trinidad and Tobago was paramount.
