History - Looking back at the year 1972 in Pan
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The girls in ‘Girl Pat Steel Orchestra’ did feel proud of their contributions to the advancement of the steel band movement. They mastered an instrument no one ever thought would accomplish such stature in today’s world of music. “It is sad though,
Read more…Circa 1934 in Trinidad, when only rhythms were being beaten on the "tamboo bamboo", bottle and spoon, etc. - (the British having banned outright the beating of African drums in 1931), and the Steelpan had not yet come into being, Neville Jules was
Read more…Take a trip back in time with one of the most successful steel bands the history of Trinidad and Tobago.
“The greatest group I’ve ever had the privilege to produce.”
Van Dyke Parks
The film by the world renown director, producer and musician, Van
Read more…Producer, author and noted on-air broadcaster Von Martin shares another important documentary on the pan from his archives. This time we meet Pan Pioneer Hugh Borde.
Head of Caribbeana Communications Inc. Von Martin shares one of his many interviews
Read more…(SEE Medium Steel Orchestra Finals RESULTS Panorama 2020)
POTENTIAL SYMPHONY
SIPARIA DELTONES
CUREPE SCHERZANDO
STEEL XPLOSION
DIXIELAND
COUVA JOYLANDERS
PAMBERI
SFORZATA
KATZENJAMMERS
SOUND SPECIALISTS OF LAVENTILLE
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Ten steel orchestras in the Medium band finals of Trinidad & Tobago’s annual National Panorama had their musical say on the night of Sunday February 16, 2020. They faced judges Joanna Ragbir, Lennox London, Roger Sardinha,
Read more…“Once the music is in motion, the drummer is the ‘conductor’ of a Panorama arrangement - not the person in front of the band, whose role is more theatrical. Great Panorama drummers have a combination of finesse, awareness and power. They ‘captain’ th
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - What began as a sunny and windy afternoon greeted pan players and attendees alike when the Panorama 2020 Semi-finals aka “Savannah Party” got started shortly after 1:00 p.m. local time, with Trinidad Valley Harps first up.
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Eleven large steel orchestras from the original fourteen semi-finalists withstood the musical test in the large category and are through to the Trinidad & Tobago’s National 2020 Panorama finals, to be held at the same venue
Read more…The Live Online Broadcast - IF/WHEN IT BECOMES AVAILABLE - 2020 Panorama Semi-Finals at the Queen's Park Savannah.
Order of Appearance Medium | Large
Read more…Eastern Region
Band: birdsong
Tune: More Sokah
Arranger: Robert Greenidge
Eastern Region
Band: Exodus
Tune: Dear Promoter
Arranger: Terrance "BJ" Marcelle
Band: Supernovas
Tune: Dear Promoter
Arranger: Amrit Samaroo
Band: Tropical Angel Harps
Tune: More Sokah
Arranger: Clarence Morris
Band: Antillean All Stars
Tune: Savannah Grass
Arranger: Glen 'Zola' Williams
Band: Skiffle
Tune: Wrong Again
Arranger: Kendall Williams, Odie Gonzales & Marc Broo
Feb. 2, 2020
Judging in the Panyards/Communities - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama competition: Large Conventional Steel Orchestra Preliminaries - Northern Region steel orchestras. Time: 7:00 p.m. --- 7 steel orchestras --- Trinidad All Sta
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. From Sunday February 2 to Wednesday 5, 2020, seventeen Large Conventional steel orchestras will face their category judges in a bid to fill fourteen coveted spots in the semi-finals round of the National Panora
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Global- The first few images in “The Illustrated Story of Pan” (288 pages) that jumped up and grabbed my eyeballs seemed eerily familiar. It wasn’t the six or seven young men scratching out the early rhythm of the steel band on paint pans, biscuit dr
(Day 1 - South/Central) Judging in the Panyards/Communities - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama competition: Medium Conventional Steel Orchestra - Preliminaries - South/Central Region steel orchestras. Time: 6:00 p.m. --- 4 steel orchestras -
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