New $700 attraction for weekend’s ‘Savannah Party’
"Contacted for comment yesterday, event co-ordinator of the Pan Splash Michelle George said:
“We have been getting a lot of interest and a lot of scepticism as well, but the whole idea behind it is f
Results of the National Junior Panorama Competition in all categories have been released by the coordinators. Overall twelve Primary Schools, ten Secondary Schools and eight Non-Schools have qualified for the Finals carded for the Queen’s Park Savann
Trinidad - Putting their musical prowess on display at the Queen’s Park Savannah also known as “The Big Yard,” twenty-one small steel orchestras grace that stage in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, on Saturday February 15 for the semi-final phase of competit
Read more…It's been sometime since I posted here, I've refrain from doing so because at time the conversation becomes a bit unproductive. Today I am stirred by the lack of pan event coverage. I believe there are people around the world who play, listen and lov
Read more…Companies vying for the right to broadcast Carnival 2014 via the Internet are questioning the National Carnival Commission’s (NCC) three-month delay in naming who has been awarded a bid. Writer, producer and director Danielle Dieffenthaller, in an in
Read more…Do you think that Arrangers that arranging for their alternate bands (Medium/Small/ Pan round the neck) is just a Hustle or do you think they put their heart and soul like they do with their Main band? just asking!
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Patrons are paying as much as $700 to be a part of the “Pan Splash” posse, which is a new feature added to The Greens for this weekend’s Panorama semi-finals at the Queen’s Park Savannah in Port o
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
It’s time for Savannah Party
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It is the only competition on planet Earth that features over 2,000 musicians of percussive instruments on one stage. The eagerly awaited semifinals for large and med
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - A small crowd of pan supporters showed up for the National Single Pan Panorama preliminaries at The Paddock, Queen’s Park Savannah, Port-of Spain, on Saturday. Twenty-eight of the 29 bands register
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Minister of the Arts and Multiculturalism Dr Lincoln Douglas will give $190 million to cover Carnival costs, but most of it, $150 million, will be used to pay debts incurred since 2010, he told ye
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago’s National Steelband Panorama 2014 competition kicked off at the Arima Velodrome on Thursday night with the preliminary round for single pan bands in the eastern region.
Of the 21 ba
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This song is played for the Trinidad Panorama competition by the following bands:
Redemption Sound Setters Steel Orchestra
Trinidad All Stars Steel Orchestra
Merrytones Steel Orchestra
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Three separate days have been allotted to Steel Orchestras in the Large Band category for Trinidad & Tobago’s 2014 National Panorama Preliminaries.
Tobago and Eastern Regions bands will be visited by the adjudicators on Mo
Read more…2 friends and myself will be in Trinidad Feb 9 through 17 (traveling on the 8 and 18.) I have been before but my friends haven't. We all play pan and that will be our focus. Any suggestions on what we should try to see and do while there? Semis are f
Read more…I was saying to one of my comrades AL Nunes that my opinion is from 2001 to 2013 those tunes were not considered a Classic" in my Book, What do you think? If you ask people to hum most of those tunes between that time, they can't.
Read more…Is it too early to ring the bell signaling the end of the pan tune's dominance in panorama? I have been looking at the selections of bands so far, and I am seeing some very interesting trends building from the last 2 years. Some of the songs that ba
Read more…Global - Seventy Single Pan Bands in four Regions will face panels of adjudicators when the 2014 National Panorama Single Pan Bands Preliminaries gets underway in two weeks’ time. This means that sixty-nine bands will be attempting to dethrone the r
Read more…Hi Everyone,
I am compelled and not ashamed to reach out to the WST Universe
I am looking for some players to support my little group in Trinidad.
Flamingoes. I need some of you WST members who will be going for the Panorama.prelims to come take a k
Read more…"My main concern is setting this thing forward as an example to what can be done with this kind of music, what changes can be made and what kind of music can be acceptable."
Master arranger Clive Bradley....http://youtu.be/UrYA5-Pxclc
Read more…Ah doh want anyone telling meh that ah doh like Andy or that ah like to beat up on Andy because that's not true........ but........it look like Andy coming with same kind of music again this year, boi ah doh know what to say. I was hoping Andy come t
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