CompassCayman.com
Toronto, Canada, Ontario - Twelve local high school students, playing alongside 15 musicians from two Cayman steel pan bands and pan players from four other countries -- the large group known as Afropan -- finished second out of 13 bands in one of the largest celebrations of Caribbean culture held outside the Caribbean.
The students, who are taught by noted local panist Earl La Pierre, participated in Toronto’s Caribana Festival, played alongside musicians from Cayman steel pan bands Panoramers and UCCI Pandemix. They took part in the festival’s Pan Alive steel pan competition, joining forces with players from Trinidad, Bermuda, the U.S. (North Carolina) and Canada (Toronto) under the band name Afropan.
Afropan, comprised of 67 musicians, is in its 40th year playing as a group, and proudly finished second, missing out on first place by just three points to last year’s winners, Pan Fantasy.
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