“Carnival 2017 will be a success” is the assurance given this week by Minister of Community Development, the Arts and Culture Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly in the wake of the 2016-2017 Budget presented last week Friday by Finance Minister Colm Imbert, referri
Read more…Is there anyone else on this forum who is concerned about pan players beating rather than playing pans? Brooklyn Labor Day Panorama provided numerous examples. And the panorama in Trinidad is not much different. Is it that the focus is on learning th
Read more…I read on WST where Ray Holman who arranged Panorama tunes for Tokyo and Hummingbirds Pan Grove said Hummingbirds Pan Grove is a more powerful band than Tokyo, So why would a steelband with 120 players sound powerful on stage and another steelband
Read more…I am surprised that there has been no discussion of the recently (October 19th) released schedule of events for the 2017 Panorama. There has been discussion about boycotting Panorama, but nothing about the significantly revised schedule.
First, th
Read more…Congratulations to D'Radoes Steel Orchestra on retaining the New York Panorama Championship for the third consecutive year.
RESULTS
| Position - Points | Name of Band | Song | Arranger |
| 1st - 278 | Commancheros Steel Orchestra | Dance | Andre Greenidge |
| 2nd - 269 | Angel Harps Steel Orchestra | Take It | James Clarkson |
| 2nd - 269 | New Dimension Steel Orchestra | Salute The Band | David ‘Peck’ |
Cecil: We cannot afford to sit on this forum any more and just talk and make suggestions because our clocks are running out real fast. So I suggest we get busy and start MAKING SOME THINGS HAPPEN. Either we go back home and join XL or UNRULY ISIS or
Read more…With the announcement of the ultra talented Mia Gormandy as the 2017 arranger of Birdsong steel orchestra it safe to say the birdsong experiment of the last few years with arranger Andy Narell is over - but what impact, if any, did it have on the Tri
Read more…Expats Foreign players and Tourists visit T&T the mecca of pan at carnival time to participate in Panorama and play Mas. If Panorama is held later in the year, will these visitors be able to come to T&T twice a year for Panorama and return a few mon
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More than an after-school program, the Austin Community Steelband has created an expressive place to uplift local youth through learning steelpan music. Originating in Trinidad, steelbands served as a way for poor and oppressed people to come tog Read more…
| #1 | Pan Elders | |
| #2 | Curepe Scherzando | |
| #3 | Steel Xplosion | |
| #4 | Katzenjammers | |
| #5 | Couva Joylanders | |
| #6 | Buccooneers | |
| #7 | West Side Symphony | |
| #8 | Dixieland | |
| #9 | Sound Specialists of Laventille | |
| #10 | Melodians |
Results of Single Pan Finals 2016
1. Marsicans and Trinidad East Side Symphony
3. T&T Fire Services
4. San Juan East Side Symphony and Arima All Stars
6. T&T Defence Force
7. Newtown Playboys Steel Symphony
8. Uni Stars
9. Gonzales Sheikers, Wood
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Phase II Pan Groove leads the pack going into the last night of competition in the finals, carded for Saturday February 6th at th
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by When Steel Talks
Right-on, Right-on, Right-on. Yea! It’s the ‘Love Doctor’ of Pan doing his thing. No doubt. It’s a love thang...
Watching arranger Duvone Stew
Read more…Results Small Conventional Finals 2016
1. Arima Golden Symphony
2. Laventille Serenaders
3. Tornadoes ...
4. La Horquetta Pan Groove
5. Pandemonium and Fascinators Pan Groove
7. T&TEC New East Side Dimension
8. Five Rivers Modern Symphony
9. Tama
Panorama is outgrowing the Queen’s Park Savannah but there’s no alternative venue to stage this premier annual steelband competition, which was born at this venue in 1963.
This and other challenges perennially face Pan Trinbago president Keith Diaz b
Read more…Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The State will pay out $2.9 million in financial assistance to more than 180 unsponsored steel-bands across the country – including the Samaroo Jets started by the late pan icon Jit Samaroo – acco
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