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Ah know this is NOT A CALYPSO FORUM -- but it is interesting to note that NO CALYPSO sung by a FOREIGNER has ever won PANORAMA ... and not even THE MIGHTY DUVONE could break that LOCAL GLASS CEILING

Ah wonder if the JUDGES were aware of that fact and if it played into their JUDGING.

Ah wonder if DUVONE was aware of that and felt BIG ENOUGH to RISE ABOVE IT. He ended up book-ending his TWO WINS with two OUTER ISLAND CALYPSOS. Next year he better

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Results - Medium - Panorama Semis 2020

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -  What began as a sunny and windy afternoon greeted pan players and attendees alike when the Panorama 2020 Semi-finals aka “Savannah Party” got started shortly after 1:00 p.m. local time, with Trinidad Valley Harps first up. 

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I did not listen to SILVER STARS because I DID NOT LIKE their TUNE OF CHOICE -- but now that they CAME SO LOW I have to give them A LISTEN ...

When I was growing up in TRINIDAD in the SIXTIES -- SILVER STARS was my FAVOURITE STEELBAND. And even today, when I am driving down THE HIGHWAY and I play some SILVER STARS MUSIC from the SIXTIES -- nostalgic tears does come to meh eyes. So I would s

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WINDORAMA and RAINORAMA

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Watch Large Band 2020 Panorama Prelim - Exodus Steel Orchestra

Eastern Region
Band: Republic Bank Exodus
Tune: Dear Promoter
Arranger: Terrance 'BJ Marcelle

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National Panorama 2020 Finals - Order of Appearance: Large Conventional Bands

 

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Curepe Scherzando, Tobago bands shine in Panorama semis

Joan Rampersad - Newsday

The music was so sweet for this player from Courts Sounds Specialists which competed in the medium bands category at the Queen's Park Savannah. PHOTO BY WARREN LE PLATTE - WARREN LE PLATTE

Curepe Scherzando, playing in last

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I am going with DUVONE STEWART this year to MAKE IT THREE IN A ROW for POLITICAL and CULTURAL reasons

I think that THE JUDGES should just GIVE DUVONE THE WIN this year to CEMENT HIS PROFILE as a GLOBAL AMBASSADOR FOR PAN.

Ah could get into a LONG STORY HERE -- but my head is still buzzing from the PERFORMANCES and accompanying CHAT that went down wit

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AMAZING GRACE: SHARMAIN BABOOLAL -- just when I thought I was lost, you made me feel found; and when ah thought that I was BLIND you made me SEE. THANKS!!!

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Well ah going with ANDRE WHITE tonight -- even though he got to be like a 50-1 shot to win ...

Maybe (just maybe) he tweaks the tune so well that the judges have no choice but to give him the win. But in the real world after ROWLEY and BEVERLEY and THE THA and TOBAGO TOURISM put all that time and effort and money into giving TOBAGO CENTER STAG

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Now I have to admit that BOOGSIE had a NICE ARRANGEMENT worth listening to long after CARNIVAL -- but IT WAS a little dated and could not compete with the MODERN STYLE of the TOP THREE ...

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Watch Large Band 2020 Panorama Prelims - birdsong Steel Orchestra

Eastern Region
Band: Birdsong
Tune: More Sokah
Arranger: Robert Greenidge

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The Pain-o-rama explained: Episode One..Renegades, Desperados and Exodus.

by Sharmain Baboolal

#ChroniclesofÀPanorama

All are mighty. But the heaviness of the badly disorganised Carnival 2020 is weighing on the shoulders of the only people now upholding culture. But whose vision is limited to money. Easily the Panorama is

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Champion Panorama Tunes of Trinidad & Tobago

• 1963 - Mighty Sparrow - Dan Is The Man (In The Van)
• 1964 - Lord Kitchener - Mama Dis Is Mas
• 1965 - Lord Melody - Melody Mas
• 1966 - Mighty Sparrow - Obeah Wedding
• 1967 - Lord Kitchener - Sixty Seven
• 1968 - Lord Kitchener - Wrecker
• 1969 - Lord Kitche

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Merrytonestothebone: You made a very insightful comment about "crackshots" and "pretenders" -- yuh send me back to RATIO and PROPORTION!!!

I was noticing that SUDDENLY all the talk about CRACKSHOTS went silent until you brought the topic back up today.

But if I get your point, when you have 30 people in a band and 15 are CRACKSHOTS -- you sounding real good. But now when you come to lar

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Is THIS all there IS?

https://trinidadradiostations.net/vibe-ct/

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Large Category 2020 Panorama Prelim Results - Trinidad and Tobago

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Ah thought the show was starting at ONE O CLOCK -- ah doh want to miss SAN CITY ...

Beverley make meh wake up so early and now all ah seeing is ah empty stage!!!

WHERE IS THE MUSIC?

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Historic Panorama under way in Tobago

Courts Sound Specialists of Laventille got the National Panorama medium band finals under way on Sunday evening with Merchant's Ah Feeling To Rock at the Dwight Yorke Stadium, Bacolet. PHOTO BY DAVID REID - DAVID REID

President Paula-Mae Weekes was

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16 MEDIUM STEELANDS move forward to Sunday’s semifinal

Guardian February 3, 2020

"At the end of the ex­er­cise, the break­down is as fol­lows – one band from the North, five from the East, sev­en from South/Cen­tral and three from To­ba­go Re­gions."

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