The Tobago News
Tobago, W.I. - In its quest to keep the steelband culture alive outside of carnival, the National Gas Company (NGC) sponsored Steel Xplosion Orchestra will stage a pan concert next month.
The super pan concert is slated to come off on Saturday, August 9 at 8pm at the spacious RBC Redemption Sound Setters Pan Theatre, Montgomery/Bethel Junction.
According to the spokesman for the band and event coordinator, Aaron Reid, “the pan outreach programme will be one of sensational clash of steel outside of carnival and it will showcase one of the rising stars of the steelband movement in Trinidad, the NGC sponsored Couva Joylanders Steel Orchestra in a pan battle with Tobago champion steelbands.”
Reid, a retired school principal and former Tobago Carnival Development Committee Secretary, revealed that “the Tobago steelbands which will join Steel Xplosion to fly the ‘Tobago flag’ in the steelband showdown is the ever popular Petrotrin Katzenjammers, NLCB Buccooneers, multi-time Tobago pan champs RBC Redemption Sound Setters and three –time Tobago Panorama winners Carib Dixieland.”
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