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Single Pan Bands - Finals Results - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama 2019

San Juan Eastside Symphony San Juan Eastside Symphony Wins Championship Single Pan Band Title

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Victorious San Juan East Side Symphony did the East region proud on February 3, and bested nineteen fellow participants in the S

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Small Conventional Steel Orchestras - 2019 Panorama participants

Panorama 2019 -- Fifty-seven small steel orchestras are listed as participants in the 2019 Trinidad and Tobago National Panorama competition.

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Panorama Live Broadcast for a Fee

The topic of paying to view Panorama live, overseas via internet or cable, was covered in previous years. I think the time has come to re-open the discussion. Monies generated could help paying the bands and panmen. People pay through their nose to w

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[Despite the BEVERELY LIES]: Unsponsored bands feel the pinch

Trinidad Guardian 1/26/2019

CHARLES KONG SOO

"According to Keith Simpson, manager of St James Tripolians Steel Orchestra, most of the 163 bands going up for Panorama are unsponsored, and just about 20 of them have corporate sponsors

Started by Claude Gonzales in Panorama

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Love always for Laventille Despers’ roots still ‘the Hill’

Trinidad Newsday

Nailah Blackman waves a Desperadoes flag as the band rehearses her song Iron Man, it's tune of choice for Panorama, at the panyard on the old government printery compound, Tragerete Road, Port of Spain last Thursday. PHOTO BY ROGER

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Pan and mas, through Desperadoes eyes

Trinidad Newsday

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“The steelbands concentrated then on masquerading as ‘Sailors’ and ‘African Warriors’. By the late 1950’s, however, a few steelbands began to display original costumes and focus on ‘pretty mas’ such as ... ‘Noah’s Ark’ in 1959 by

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Well ah hear through the grapevine that some MAJOR DISSENT is beginning to emerge in some PAN YARDS as the influx of young players are starting to demand YOUNGER ARRANGERS ...

... and with Duvone Stewart representing the CHANGE OF GUARD in the NORTH and THE THREE AMIGOS representing in the SOUTH -- some OLD HEADS sure to get SHAKE OUT THE TREE in the near future.

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Nadia Batson is moved to tears of joy at Trinidad All Stars panyard

Nadia Batson is moved to tears of joy at Trinidad All Stars panyard after hearing her 2019 hit "So Long" being played by the iconic steel orchestra.

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I would like to invite G FORD and SIDD and Patrick and R ROSE and C HOULDER and K Smith and H ASSEE and EARL RAMSEY to come back and respond to this posting on the MARKETABILITY of PANORAMA MUSIC

Ian Socapro Henry ... I woke up to the reality that the rest of the world find it very difficult to appreciate Panorama music when I started doing radio shows in London many moons ago and tried to regularly play live Panorama CD's on a Reggae and R

Started by Claude Gonzales in Panorama

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Panorama 2019 Performances

Arima All Stars Steel Orchestra performs for the judges at the Trinidad and Tobago National Single Pan Panorama Preliminaries 2019. They played "Different Me", a composition of Jovan James, sung by 5 Star Akil. The band's arranger is Andy A. Neils.

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Single Pan Champs, Newtown Playboyz will defend their crown after all.- Panorama 2019 update

by Sharmain Baboolal

But it will not be with an Akiba Joseph’s arrangement of Tambu’s No No we eh going home.”
Instead, the tune will be arranged by two players Aaron Perreira and Richie Joseph with some help from Tony Williams.

While Keiron Valent

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BANDS GO FOR HOOKIN MEH [FIVE BANDS]

Newsday January 18th, 2019

Gary Cardinez

THE most popular song for 2019 Carnival Hookin Meh by Darryl Farmer Nappy Henry has become a sort of “test piece” for Conventional Large bands in Panorama.

Five bands, led by defending champions BPTT Renegades

Started by Claude Gonzales in Panorama

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Pan Trinbago-Tobago to help pan: Players should get stipends

Trinidad Newsday

Arranger Michael Toby takes a handful of players through a practise session of Niala Blackman’s Iron Love at the Redemption Sound Setters Steel Orchestra pan threatre in Montgomery, Bethel, last Saturday. Photos by David Reid

With

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Like Cecil Hinkson said: Next day it on YOUTUBE (Single Pan Start 2019)

Started by Claude Gonzales in Panorama

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2019 Single Pan Bands Prelims Results

See Complete Results

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After all the GRAND PROMISES, look how BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE have STEELBANDS hustling BREAKFAST to make it to PANORAMA. That is a ROYAL SHAME!!!

CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE IN HUSTLING BREAKFAST

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Ready for Panorama 2019 - What the bands are saying...

Phase II Pan Groove

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Earl Richards: Yuh eh put up a TOPIC in a real long time. And everytime you put up a TOPIC Pan Lovers does go GAGA and give a MILLION responses!!!

COMMON MAN!!!

PANORAMA FEVER!!! SUPERBOWL FEVER!!! BEVERLEY FEVER!!!

But like yuh posting art gone astray

Single Pan Prelims from day to day

And ah HIGH VALUE poster like you

Have NOTHING TO SAY ....

Started by Claude Gonzales in Panorama

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It look like instead of turning PANYARDS into "CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE" the lady turning the PANYARDS into CENTERS OF DESOLATION

If yuh not ah BIG BAND with SPONSORS to pay for the BEST PLAYERS in the land -- yuh have to close up shop.

This year promises to have some SERIOUS band hopping/section swapping going on. Somebody should go around and do an award winning DOCUMENTARY o

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The Elephant in the room

So Pan Trinbago says players not getting paid in 2019...or apparently 2020 because budget cuts of $10M means they just don't have the money to pay players

Thing is......they should look at every possible avenue to ENSURE that players get paid.

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Single Pan Bands - Finals Results - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama 2019

Small Conventional Steel Orchestras - 2019 Panorama participants

Panorama Live Broadcast for a Fee

[Despite the BEVERELY LIES]: Unsponsored bands feel the pinch

Love always for Laventille Despers’ roots still ‘the Hill’

Pan and mas, through Desperadoes eyes

Well ah hear through the grapevine that some MAJOR DISSENT is beginning to emerge in some PAN YARDS as the influx of young players are starting to demand YOUNGER ARRANGERS ...

Nadia Batson is moved to tears of joy at Trinidad All Stars panyard

I would like to invite G FORD and SIDD and Patrick and R ROSE and C HOULDER and K Smith and H ASSEE and EARL RAMSEY to come back and respond to this posting on the MARKETABILITY of PANORAMA MUSIC

Panorama 2019 Performances

Single Pan Champs, Newtown Playboyz will defend their crown after all.- Panorama 2019 update

BANDS GO FOR HOOKIN MEH [FIVE BANDS]

Pan Trinbago-Tobago to help pan: Players should get stipends

Like Cecil Hinkson said: Next day it on YOUTUBE (Single Pan Start 2019)

2019 Single Pan Bands Prelims Results

After all the GRAND PROMISES, look how BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE have STEELBANDS hustling BREAKFAST to make it to PANORAMA. That is a ROYAL SHAME!!!

Ready for Panorama 2019 - What the bands are saying...

Earl Richards: Yuh eh put up a TOPIC in a real long time. And everytime you put up a TOPIC Pan Lovers does go GAGA and give a MILLION responses!!!

It look like instead of turning PANYARDS into "CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE" the lady turning the PANYARDS into CENTERS OF DESOLATION

The Elephant in the room

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