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
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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
Read more…Supernova in Panorama 2016 is leading the change movement in technology, video production, self-promotion and self-sufficiency. Can other steelbands follow their lead?
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Despers were by far the best playing big band on the day. They did the Hill proud in a dark time. It was a finals type performance in sophistication and intensity. Mesmeric on a night when the small and medium size bands on the whole play
Breaking Belize News -- January 23, 2016
By Aaron Humes: Representatives of Pandemonium Steel Band traveled to Trinidad and Tobago today to take part in the largest gathering of steelpan bands in the world, known as “Panorama”.
Steel pan music has g
Read more…I can't remember the last time Exodus was not in the finals. Is this end of the big five? What did you think of Pelham's arrangement?
Read more…AFTER struggling for years moving from panyard to panyard, defending Junior Panorama Champions St Francois Girls’ College has marked a milestone in their pan history finally having their own space to play, outfitted with their own instruments. Yester
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Panorama is much more than a music competition. It is a phenomenon that mirrors life experiences and values. You can experience exhilarating joy, to cold numbing pain, heartbreak and disillusion - all in one season - for an eight-minute performance.
...The mission set we on the track,
We aiming for the top,
Like a rocket dey can't stop,
From a little village band,
To becoming champions,
It gets brighter with each moment past;
We are the Supernovas
We burning up the skies,
Is a fresh new
