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Revisited - Breaking News -- Bands Boycott Grenada Panorama - Stage not ready for prime time
St. George's, Grenada, W.I. - As a result of the lack of a proper stage, the Grenada steel orchestras have just voted to boycott the 2017 Panorama at an emergency meeting.
This - as the Panorama itself was scheduled and advertised to get underway
Read more…WIADCA - Web Site - No information on Panorama 2017
Why is their no information on Panorama 2017 on the WIADCA web site:
http://wiadcacarnival.org/events/
99% of the information on the site is about Carnival 2017 and the events surrounding it. Actually most of the information on the website is outdat
Read more…Hells Gate Wins Antigua & Barbuda's 2017 National Panorama
When Steel Talks extends congratulations to Antigua's 2017 Panorama Champions - Hells Gate.
Click for article, full results - http://www.panonthenet.com/news/2017/aug/antigua-panorama-results-8-8-2017.htm
Would a SLOW JAM competition held after the national Panorama appeal to specators???
From a YouTube poster...Jerry Dolabaille
It's my firm belief that there should be a competition for arrangements done at SLOW JAM tempo. To the average listener like myself we will be better able to identify intricate passages and also feel the mood
Read more…Trinidad-Tobago Pan Players to be PAID? So reports 96.1 WEFM
Steelpan players will get their money by the end of the month. That’s the latest word from a representative of the National Carnival Commission ( NCC) who said the money will be realeased so that each player at the preliminary stage of the competitio
Read more…Carnival Plan being revised
Trinidad Newsday
THE National Carnival Commission’s (NCC) Strategic Plan for Carnival is being revised. Community Development, Culture and the Arts Minister, Dr Nyan Gadsby- Dolly, made this disclosure in a written response to a question from Princes
Read more…Revisited -- PANORAMA JUDGING 2.0
So a few of us on Facebook have been at it with our annual post-panorama discussion, and clearly what seems to be the common thread is judging. Is there a better way? Well i've always felt there are a number of things that can be added or restructure
Read more…THEY TIEF WE
THEY TIEF WE
Well that is usually the cry when your band loses the Panorama finals, the big steelpan festival during Trinidad and Tobago carnival.
Especially if the band was favoured to win or at least give a good account of themselves.
Phase II Pa
DVD of Trinidad and Tobago Large and Medium Panorama Finals 2017 Available
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - This year’s exciting steelband performances at the National Panorama Medium & Large Conventional Finals are captured “live” on DVD and Flash Drive.
The 2017 production is a collaborative venture between Pan Trinbago Inc. T.
Read more…Full Extreme enters Road March race

Music group Ultimate Rejects have entered their song Full Extreme in the Road March competition for Carnival 2017.
The entry comes after an outpouring of comments from soca lovers, asking for the popular song Full Extreme to be entered the competiti
Read more…LARGE BAND FIRST AT THE PAN FINALS: by Ray Holman

(Published in Newsday and Guardian today)
PANORAMA FINALS COMPETITION:
In this article, I will confine my comments merely to the organization of the Panorama Finals Competition.
As someone who has spent most of his life and has de
I've changed my mind again. The stars say "All Stars" But...
Okay folks with the order of appearance out, the stars seem to be aligned for a Trinidad All Stars win. They are a great band, with a great song that matches them and they are playing at position ten. And their arranger, Smooth, knows how to finish o
Read more…Preliminary Results for Small Conventional Steel Orchestras - Trinidad & Tobago Panorama 2017
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The names of the thirty (30) semi-finalists in the National Panorama Small Steel Orchestra category have been released by Pan Trinbago.
Fascinators Pan Symphony and Our Boys both scored the highest points of 266.5 for thei
Read more…Flag women keep ‘em jammin’ still
“You have no band without a beautiful flagwoman,” sang the late Lord Kitchener in 1976 and 41 years later the flagwoman remains an important ingredient that flavours a steelband. Pan lore is replete with outstanding steelband flagwomen, like Mayfield
Read more…Tobago Region/Tobago House of Assembly (THA) annual steelband competition
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - A new Tobago House of Assembly (THA) Pan Champ (Large) will be crowned tomorrow, Friday 17 February at the end of the annual Tobago Region/Tobago House of Assembly (THA)-staged steelband competition. The venue is the Parade
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