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Duvone Stewart has stormed the CONSCIOUSNESS of PAN LOVERS GLOBALLY with his arrangement of "YEAR FOR LOVE"

I have never seen such acclaim for a PANORAMA TUNE. Spiritually, I have come to believe that THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE IS THE VOICE OF GOD -- MAJORITY RULES. But as everybody calls the performance the GREATEST IN THE HISTORY OF PANORAMA, I have to REPR

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I think that the FORUM is lucky to have Miss Gillian Bishop giving informal "lectures" on "PANORAMA MUSIC APPRECIATION"

Miss Gillian Bishop is the most authentic, knowledgeable, experienced, informed, in-the-mix PAN LOVER COMMENTATOR I have ever seen come on this forum. And she has been imparting a lot of technical aspects of the PANORAMA ARRANGEMENTS -- not in broad

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Candice Andrews-Brumant, Skipper of Renegades Steel Orchestra, Speaks

by Sharmain Baboolal

Provided by, and republished with, the expressed permission of: the Author

Admittedly, she’s a stern disciplinarian.

And truth be told, it does not really matter to Candice Andrews-Brumant that she is the first female captain o

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Making IT better. Recording Pan Elders on the airwaves

Making IT better. Recording Pan Elders on the airwaves.

 

TT Steelband Panorama 2018 Medium & Large Finals. Oh dear, of all points to screw-up on, Pan Elders. Mixing faults and ‘drop outs’; fix applied.

 

Vibe City105FM’s sound engineer (?) had a pan

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LIke SOUTH have ah inferiority complex or what?

SKIFFLE come second and SOUTH PEOPLE jumping up and celebrating as if they come FIRST. With dem three arrangers from one of the GLOBAL HOTBEDS OF MUSIC PRODUCTION (and their musical background) -- nobody should be beating dem three fellahs.

Unless it

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Congratulations to the 2018 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama Champions & Participants

When Steel Talks extends special congratulations to Renegades Steel Orchestra, Duvone Stewart, Pan Elders Steel Orchestra, Vanessa Headley, Golden Hands Steel Orchestra,  Renegades Youth Steel Orchestra, Andrew Charles, Carlon Harewood and Newtown Pl

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No Panorama POST MORTEM on BOOGSIE and PHASE II

This is the BIGGEST BOOGSIE FORUM in the world and everybody watched the MUSICAL GENIUS  slip to 7th and 8th in the last two PANORAMAS -- yet utter silence.

What kinda ah love is that?

Don't tell me that THE BOOGSIE FAITHFUL JUMP SHIP and gone with R

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Police shutdown Skiffle & Mayor on Carnival Tuesday

by Sharmain Baboolal

Mayor Junia Regrello found himself in an angry confrontation with police as they tried to shut down carnival celebrations in San Fernando prematurely on Tuesday night, in the middle of a steel band’s performance at a competition

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New World Steelband Order: Teague’s minor changes make a major note

by Sharmain Baboolal

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - “I am a Dreamer,” he declared. And he’s got ideas. But, here in Trinidad, Professor Liam Teague does not speak unless spoken to except when he is teaching. You would have to seek knowledge. And it is o

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The C.I.P thanks you for your commitment to the culture and your craft.

The C.I.P thanks you for your commitment to the culture and your craft.

 

By Aquil Arrindell

 

Before the CIP resumes its ongoing pursuit of justice for the pan people, we would like to say congrats to all the bands that competed and were successful

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Finals Results for Large Conventional Steel Orchestras - Trinidad & Tobago Panorama - Renegades End 21-Year Title Drought

Large Conventional Steel Orchestras
	RESULTS	TUNE	BAND	SONG	ARRANGER
	1st 287		Renegades	“Year For Love”	Duvone Stewart
	2nd 280		Skiffle	“Hello”	Marc Brooks Kendall Williams Odie Franklin
	3rd 279		Desperadoes	“Year For Love”

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CONGRATULATIONS TO DUVONE!!!

He is now a PANORAMA CHAMPION!!!

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Calling on the Soca Monarch and Calypso Monarch to demand an apology to tuner Birch Kelman

Time for y'all to bring the change and summand the fire that both you Helon Francis and Arron "Voice" St. Louis have been talking about and calling for. The honorable Birch Kelman was disrespected at your 2018 Carnival. The same Carnival where you w

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Regrello: Police killing Sando Carnival

San Fernando Mayor Junia Regrello looks on as corporate secretary of the San Fernando City Corporation Amanda Rangell speaks to reporters during a press conference yesterday.

YVONNE WEBB

WHO gave instructions to prematurely stop the Carnival in the

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Hello! Pan in good hands with Skiffle

Trinidad Newsday

THE EDITOR: Following the results, I congratulate all pannists and arrangers for their energy, talent and discipline in producing and executing the wonderful music that leaves us enthralled every Carnival season. We all know that man

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An exercise in sweetness, musicality and spirit-of-carnival displayed by SKIFFLE

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2018 JUNIOR PANORAMA FINAL - Panorama Live 2018

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Count start Analysis Desperadoes Final 2018

Count start Analysis Desperadoes Final 2018

Some recent comments, somewhere on this WST Forum, users were lamenting a crazy start count to the Desperadoes 2018 Finals rendition of Year For Love (Upendo Riddim) (2018) (Arr 'Zanda').

With the aide of t

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It's a shame but BUGS is the only man on the forum out of 20,000 who understands what this means ...

The Steel Times - The Steel Times, Vol. 1, January 2018  

For years I have been linking the chain on PAN IN AMERICA for all to read and process. But all everybody on this forum care about is PANORAMA!!!

They established the BOTTOM!!! They established

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All Stars win J’Ouvert Bomb competition

Trinidad All Stars won the NLCB  (National Lotteries Control Board) Northern Region J’Ouvert Bomb competition on Carnival Monday morning at Victoria Square, Port of Spain.

The 2017 Panorama Champion (Large Band category) played Theme from The Magnifi

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