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Trinidad & Tobago 2014 Panorama Single Pan & Small Steel Orchestra Double-DVD on Sale

Global -  Steel pan music connoisseurs are in for a delightful treat with the release of the DVD of the National Trinidad & Tobago Single Pan & Small Steel Orchestra Finals. The DVD captures the sights and sounds of the competition that was staged at

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Despers - Music In We Blood Panorama Finals 2003

I'm very interested in hearing the back story on how they ended with this version on the final night.

Bradley's version was much better, they placed 7th.

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MISS TOURIST PLAYED BY DIXIELAND AND SILVER STARS IN 1968 PANORAMA

In the 1968 Steelband Panorama, there were (12) Bands in the Semi-finals. Out of the (12) Bands in the Semi-finals, Six bands Tune of Choice were "Miss Tourist", The Bands were, Casablanca, City Syncopators, Dixieland,  Savoys, Silver Stars, and Trip

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Trinidad & Tobago 2014 Panorama Finals DVD Now Available

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -  This year’s scintillating steel orchestra performances at the Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama Medium & Large Conventional Finals were captured “live” and are now available on DVD.

“Celebrating the Evolution of Pan - Pa

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Pan Trinbago is ready for Carnival 2015

Pan Trinbago president Keith Diaz said this week that his organisation is ready for Carnival 2015. “We have already submitted plans to the NCC, since the end of March. Pan Trinbago ain’t sticking. We are aware that funding for Carnival is dependent o

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How would you have judged the Panorama 2014?

I've made a program online that allows you to vote on the Panorama 2014.  How does your score align with the judges?  Check out CaribKaraoke's Panorama section

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PHASE II FIGHTS EVICTION

The attempt by the Port of spain City Corporation to have the steelband Phase II Pan Groove, this year's Panorama winner, evicted from their long time home at Hamilton St., has been resurrected with the attorneys from both sides agreeing to seek to r

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Trinidad & Tobago 2014 Panorama 3-CD Compilation Available

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -  The long-awaited official Trinidad & Tobago Panorama 2014 CD compilation is completed and available. The three-disc set is the collection of the steelband finalists recaptured as they perform their Panorama selections. It f

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MAKE THE GREENS PARTY A SEPARATE EVENT FROM THE PANORAMA SEMIS

Make the greens a separate event on a different day. Have the top 4 or 5 steelbands across categories prepare a party piece or 2 from the 2014 soca repertoire to perform for the greens crowd. Make money, stop bastardizing the panorama. If the day is

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Four and a half-hour late Medium & Small Steel Orchestra Show in Southland rounds out preliminaries - Next stop: 2014 Panorama Semi-Finals

Global - It was around 6:25 p.m. on Sunday February 9 when Antillean All Stars struck their first notes at Skinner Park in San Fernando, south Trinidad - almost four and a half hours after the advertised 2:00 p.m. start. The band kicked off what tur

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Moving on to 2014 Panorama Semi Finals

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Large Steel Orchestras

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birdsong Steel Orchestra

Tune of Choice - “We Kinda Music” - Arranger: Andy Narell

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Desperadoes Steel Orchestra

Tune of Choice - “Spankin - A Tribute” - Arranger: Robert Greenidge

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Exodus Steel Orchestra
Tune of Choice - “Pan I

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Complete RESULTS for the Trinidad & Tobago 2014 Panorama

Global - - Final results and those from the qualifying rounds, of respective categories in competition in the 2014 Trinidad and Tobago Panorama are all in! Get the stats from the preliminaries, semifinals and finals for all the conventional s

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Phase II Pan Groove - Pan Elders 2014 Panorama Champs

Congratulations to the Panorama 2014 champions - Phase II (large category) and Pan Elders (medium category)...

 

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CONGRATULATIONS GOES OUT TO "SWEET AND SOUR" FOR SELECTING THE FIRST 5 BANDS IN EXACT ORDER

Congratulations goes out to one of our members "Sweet and Sour" for the selection of the first 5 in exact order in the large band category of Panorama 2014. I can't remember anyone doing this before, this is remarkable. Check with Mr Cecil Hinkson fo

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WEY WE GOING?

At no time have I ever seen so many discussions in the forum about the same topic and they all expressed total disgust.

Whist we all look at the executive of the World Governing Body as the perpetrators it dawned on me that they are just pawns used i

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A PANORAMA STEEL BAND IS ONLY AS GOOD AS THE ARRANGER

Don't you think "A Panorama Steel band is only as good as the arranger?" An Arranger can get a mediocre Band, train them, take them to Panorama and Win. So it's not about the Band but the Arranger.   

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Chucky (Roderick Gordon) was crowned 2014 National Calypso Monarch with Pan Tune?

Chucky (Roderick Gordon) was crowned 2014 National Calypso Monarch at the Dimanche Gras show presented by Trinbago Unified Calypsonians’ Organisation (TUCO) at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port-of-Spain

He performed Wey Yuh Think and Wedding Of De Cent

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Special dedication to all the panorama experts on when steel talks, for whom the cap fits

The Editor

As a nation, we are now beginning to warm to the idea that our heroes must be celebrated during their lifetimes.

Dr. Jit Samaroo, Len ‘Boogsie’ Sharpe, the late Clive Bradley, and Ray Holman, among others have been celebrated over the year

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$2.7M for 170 steelbands with no sponsors

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Some 170 steelbands that lack private sponsors will altogether receive State help of $2.7 million, said Minister of Arts and Multiculturalism, Dr Lincoln Douglas, at yesterday’s post-Cabinet news

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Judging flawed

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Chairman of Pan Trinbago South Central Region Michael Joseph says he intends to have discussions with colleagues over the judging system of the National Steelband Panorama competitions as he decl

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