Semi-Finals Order of Appearance for Medium Steel Orchestras - Panorama 2014

Trinidad - The upcoming weekend is full of steelband performances for pan music lovers, including those of the fourteen medium steel orchestras vying for spots in the final night competition, and ultimately, being crowned champion in the medium band

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EASTERN REGION Preliminaries: Small & Medium Conventional Steel Orchestras - Order of Appearance

EASTERN REGION Preliminaries: Small & Medium Conventional Steel Orchestras - Order of Appearance - Trinidad & Tobago National Steelband Panorama 2014

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Vying for positions in Trinidad & Tobago’s 2014 National Panorama semi-fin

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CNMG gets Trinidad Carnival 2014 broadcast rights

Caribbean New Media Group (CNMG) has signed an agreement for live television and radio coverage of Carnival 2014.

As a result, the popular frequencies CTV and Talk City 91.1 FM would broadcast the major steelband, calypso and mas shows organised by P

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Long delays at East Pan prelims

Trinidad Express Newspapers

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The small and medium steelbands preliminaries in Pan Trinbago’s national steelband Panorama competition took place Thursday night at Arima Velodrome. It was too long and made nonsense of this year

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POOL PARTY FOR PAN

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

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Junior Steel Orchestras Qualify for Panorama Finals

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

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Semi-Finals Order of Appearance for Small Steel Orchestras - Trinidad & Tobago National Steelband Panorama 2014

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

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The lack of media coverage for Panorama preliminaries, helps or hurt the art form and it's progression?

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

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Questions over delay in naming Internet Carnival rights bid winner

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

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ARRANGERS THAT ARRANGING FOR THEIR ALTERNATE BANDS (MEDIUM/SMALL/PAN ROUND THE NECK) IS JUST A HUSTLE?

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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Party goes on at the Greens -- Pool Party For Pan - New $700 attraction for weekend’s ‘Savannah Party’

Trinidad Express Newspapers

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

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Free admission to Panorama for youth on Saturday

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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Poor support for single pan bands

Trinidad & Tobago Guardian

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

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$150M Debt - Pan Trinbago to share in $40 million "funding activities" balance

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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Females shine at East Single Pan prelims

Trinidad Express Newspapers

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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SHIRLANE HENDRICKSON | EXCITEMENT | LYRICS

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

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Trinidad & Tobago Panorama 2014 Schedule Overview and Beyond

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

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Pre-carnival suggestions

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

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NAME THE PANORAMA TUNES IN THE YEARS GONE BY FROM 1963 TO 2013 THAT YOU WOULD CONSIDER A "CLASSIC"

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. 

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End of the Pan Tune era in panorama?

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

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