Expats Foreign players and Tourists visit T&T the mecca of pan at carnival time to participate in Panorama and play Mas. If Panorama is held later in the year, will these visitors be able to come to T&T twice a year for Panorama and return a few months later for Carnival or will they choose one event, come for Panorama and miss Carnival or come for Carnival and miss panorama ? Will it clash with other Pan festivals around the globe? Will it be a local event only because of their career and busy schedule visitors could only come for carnival? Many Steelbands pack up their instruments after Panorama will they come on the road for Carnival or will they jump to DJ music and participate in Beads feathers body paint and panty and bra MAS ? Just asking these questions because I am in the dark but what do I know.
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Sentiments are similar to what I said yesterday.
Panorama is part of the carnival culture that goes along with calypso and mas. Visitors should not have a say. Keep panorama, make changes to have ONE panorama champion, players and arrangers keep to your band during the competition. You have over 300 days in the year after the carnival to do anything you want with pan, no one will stop you. Don't mess up the present trini culture. I hope trinis have the will to keep it as it is.
Mr. Earl Richards: Let's keep it real for one morning on this forum, eh. Nothing eh moving; nothing eh changing. Any poster on this forum who is over SIXTY is going to DIE or go SENILE long before PANORAMA is moved to the SUMMER. THAT and a BIG BEAUTIFUL 1000 MILE WALL separating MEXICO from the USA you will die and never see.
I don't think you could move Panorama from Carnival Saturday night. It's a fixture there but the PM might have been thinking about a separate festival... however I want to throw this out.
How about a week long festival beginning Carnival Saturday night and continuing for the next week.
There will be enough support then, people will simply have to extend their stay or come for that week instead of the week before.
Many people who visit for carnival are not into the big fetes before carnival days and would love to have a pan festival to go to instead of the various parties.
The festival could start with Panorama and end with Champs with different pan events daily for the entire week.
Well organized this could be the solution.
Of course the religious few will remonstrate about lent etc but I believe the idea of sobriety at lenten time has long gone out the window and in fact a sober pan festival might be just the thing for a cool down after carnival.
Good questions Earl, people in foreign come to get away from the cold, take in panorama and maybe play mas, few will return if they move panorama.
You know a lot Earl. You have proven this with your presentation. I would also like to ask, what would happen to CHILDREN and their SCHOOL WORK STUDIES, if they have to start practicing for this out of season PANORAMA.
Good question, what is happening to the school children during the carnival season preparing for Panorama?
Is the late nights in the Pan Yards hurting their school work studies, let ask their parents what they think.
Is Panorama the ONLY place to showcase Pan?