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Results - Medium Steel Orchestra PRELIMINARIES - Panorama 2024

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - This year the medium band category of the 2024 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama fielded twenty-one steel orchestras in the preliminary phase of competition.

....Katzenjammers Steel Orchestra is the defending champion,

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Grenada Panorama 2023 Results - New Dimension Steel Orchestra claims title with arranger Cordel Byam

St. George’s, Grenada, W.I. - New Dimension Steel Orchestra racked up its thirteenth Panorama title with its success in the 2023 competition. Champion arranger Cordel Byam has now notched his second win in the national Panorama arena, with the popu

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It’s Championship Title and Trophy #2 for Chord Masters Steel Orchestra with arranger André White - Single Pan Bands - (2023) 2024 Finals Results

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Another Single Pan Band season in Trinidad and Tobago’s annual National Panorama is in the history books. The 2023-2024 wrap up saw last year’s champions Chord Masters Steel Orchestra taking a consecutive title on the Sunda

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Khan Cordice named 2024 Panorama arranger of Arima Angel Harps - Medium band category

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Antigua & Barbuda’s Khan Cordice is the 2024 Panorama arranger of Arima Angel Harps - Medium band category.

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NORTH Region - LARGE Steel Orchestra Prelims - Panorama 2024 - Panyard Judging

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Seven steel orchestras in the large band category deliver preliminary performances of their respective tunes of choice, each aiming to make the cut for the semi-finals of the 2024 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama.

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Josiah Green named 2024 Panorama arranger of Southern Marines Steelband Foundation - Medium band category

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Josiah Green is the 2024 Panorama arranger of Southern Marines Steelband Foundation - Medium band category.

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Single Pan Bands - Order of Appearance - Finals - (2023) 2024 - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The final twenty Single Pan bands vying for the championship and first prize purse of TTD $275,000.00 (circa USD $40,758.00) in this category, will lay down their best performances yet on Sunday December 3. There, nineteen

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Tobago Region - LARGE Steel Orchestra Prelims - Panorama 2024 - Panyard Judging

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Two large steel orchestras aim to make the sister isle Tobago proud, beginning with their preliminary appearance before judges in respective pan yards/communities. On Saturday January 20, 2024 Redemption Sound Setters and

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Single Pan Bands - Complete (2023) 2024 Preliminaries Results

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The (2023) 2024 Single Pan preliminaries unfolded from November 11 through 18, 2023. Bands faced the judges on various nights in their respective zones: Tobago, South/Central, Northern, and Eastern regions.

...the top thir

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Stefon West named 2024 Panorama arranger of La Horquetta (LH) Pan Groove - Small band category

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Stefon West is the 2024 Panorama arranger of La Horquetta (LH) Pan Groove - Small band category.  Their 2024 Tune of choice: “Spring Garden on Fire.”

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Single Pan Bands - (2023) 2024 Semi-finals Results

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Title defender Chord Masters Steel Orchestra maintains its lead after its delivery of champion arranger André White’s ‘Doctor Cassandra,’ at the end of the ’level playing field’ that was the (2023) 2024 Single Pan semi-fin

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Grenada 2023 Panorama - Order of Appearance

Grenada, W.I. - The order of appearance for the nine steel orchestras participating in Grenada’s 2023 National Panorama on August 12 has been decided. The National Stadium will come alive with the sound of steel from the competitors each vying for t

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When will we RESPECT CALYPSO MUSIC in PANORAMA? You can't be MILITANT and RACIST on one side of your brain and then dilute the purity of CALYPSO MUSIC in your STEELBAND/CALYPSO Panorama Tune ...

I have always been a CALYPSO LOVER FIRST and a PAN MUSIC LOVER SECOND -- all my life. And from the early fifties i have measured the progress of STEELDRUM MUSIC based on its ability to deliver PURITY in rendering a CALYPSO. In these early times, most

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Order of Appearance for Junior Steel Orchestras Finals - Trinidad and Tobago 2024

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Steel orchestras from twelve Primary and ten Secondary schools, along with ten ‘21 and Under’ bands, compete for titles in their respective categories. These junior steel orchestras are having their own chances at steelban

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Grenada 2023 Junior Panorama - Order of Appearance - Saturday August 5

Grenada, W.I. - ....The Junior Panorama is one component of the event billed as the ‘Children Carnival Frolic.’ It is an all-day affair slated to run from 11:00 a.m. through 8:00 p.m. and includes junior mas players and a junior calypso competition.

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Panorama to see fewer players on stage this year

Antigua Observer

Antigua & Barbuda,  W.I. - In a bid to increase the efficiency in the running of Panorama 2023, steelband fans will see fewer players gracing the stage on

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This is one of the most intrguing PANORAMA ARRANGEMENTS I have heard in a very long time ... especially in terms of how the BASS SECTION was utiilized

Now, as the eternal PAN CRITIC, I have a couple disclaimers. First of all the timbre of the arrangement had a bit of an OLD TIME LAVWAY feel and the TEMPO of the song was really too slow and clean for a PANORAMA SONG. Beyond that, I have heard THE CA

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Results - Large Conventional Steel Orchestra 2024 Semi-Finals - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - And then there were more - ties. Five sets in the preliminaries, and now four going into the finals of the ‘big band’ competition - including the four steel orchestras in fourth position... Yes - Desperadoes, Invaders, Sta

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Clarence Morris named 2024 Panorama arranger of Sangre Grande Cordettes - Medium band category

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Clarence Morris is the 2024 Panorama arranger of Sangre Grande Cordettes - Medium band category.

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Single Pan Bands - Order of Appearance - Semi-finals - (2023) 2024 - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama

East Phonics Steel Orchestra Gets It All Going

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Thirty semi-finalists in the Single Pan category of the annual National Panorama organized by Pan Trinbago, will each take the stage in their effort to move on to the finals,

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