PAT BISHOP - A Person In Pan
by Pat Bishop
A When Steel Talks Exclusive
Trinidad - I can’t say that gender has been a factor in my pan yard activities – which now span so long a period of time that I’ve forgotten when it all started!
I remember on
| Year | Band | Drummer |
| 2024 | Trinidad All Stars (tie) | Jason "Stumps" Lewis & Christopher James |
| 2024 | Renegades (tie) | Kail Thomas |
| 2023 | Renegades | Kail Thomas |
| 2022 | No Panorama - COVID 19 Pandemic | |
| 2021 | No Panorama - CO | |
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Panorama is never short on drama. This year (2024) was no exception. A first-place tie and a last-place judgment have generated endless debate. But despite the annual tension, frustration and hints of conspiracy, the compe
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Machel Montano is the 2024 King of Calypso after performances from twelve finalists at the Dimanche Gras showcase on Carnival Sunday night. The Calypso Monarch competition was organized by the Trinbago Unified Calypsonians
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - After a season of competition in the 2024 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama, there are new Panorama champions. Yes, that’s right - there is a tie for first place in this year’s Panorama, so it is celebration time in two
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Eleven large steel orchestras are performing in the 2024 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama finals.
The competitive performances can be experienced, live and as they unfold, via respective link(s), from the venue of Carni
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Eleven large steel orchestras compete in the ultimate steelband music competition - the annual Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama. After preliminary and semi-finals rounds, these bands which made the cut are expected to de
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Kersh Ramsey (red cap) receives trophy on behalf of Katzenjammers Steel Orchestra, from the Honourable Chief Secretary of Tobago, Farley AugustineBacolet, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - A repeat of results - THA Pan Champs 2024 mirrored those of 2023, t
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Bacolet, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Ten of the finest steel orchestras competing in the Medium category of the 2024 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama had their time to shine musically in the finals on February 4.
The Dwight Yorke Stadium in Tobag
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Bacolet, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Ten medium steel orchestras perform in the 2024 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama finals, each in quest of the championship title.
The competitive performances can be experienced, live, here....
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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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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - There was a jockeying for positioning in the first leg of the semi-finals—aka “Savannah Party”—in the Medium band category, of the 2024 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama, where the defending champions switched places wit
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Sheer exuberance of the youth in Steel was in full effect - from 10:00 a.m. straight through 7:50 p.m. AST (Atlantic Standard Time) on Sunday January 14, as part of Trinidad & Tobago’s 2024 National Panorama season. For all
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The long hours of practice put into the 2024 season by New East Side Dimension Steel Orchestra paid off big time, in the form of the top prize of TT $400,000.00 (circa USD $59,000.00), the championship trophy, and bragging
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Global - Trinidad and Tobago Panorama and Carnival Schedule of Events. Info on the activities for the 2024 steelband music season: dates, times, judging schedules, preliminaries, semi-finals and finals competitions, event venues, and more, as avai
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Metro Steel Orchestra of New York on stage for Panorama 2023New York, USA - Dancing with small steps of delight, Metro Steel Orchestra’s Anthony “Big Tony” Joseph came on stage to embrace the trophy which represented the work of his players, champi
Read more…Congratulations to UK 2023 Panorama Champions
“Move de band ‘cause we want to nice up de land.”
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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New York, USA - Steel orchestras are getting ready for Panorama 2023 in New York on Saturday September 2. It has been four years since the premiere steelband music competition had its showing, and many are chomping at the musical bit, anxious to be
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