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DRAMA-RAMA by Dalton Narine

In the air for Love
Duvone finds his voice at last 
So Renegades picks up a huge Victory

WST Panorama Special

Trust Renegades.

Context matters.

The Charlotte Street band had such a mammoth mission, one that took a hell of a lot of preparation in the

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Preliminary Results for Small Conventional Steel Orchestras - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama 2018

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -  Forty-three preliminary participants in the small conventional steel orchestra category in the 2018 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama - but only thirty could move forward to the semi final phase this Saturday, January 27

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Complete Preliminary Results for Medium Conventional Steel Orchestras - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama 2018

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -  In the medium band category - fourteen steel orchestras out of the twenty-five which eventually participated in the preliminary phase of the 2018 Trinidad and Tobago National Panorama - will move on to the semi-final compet

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"...we can broadcast the Super Bowl but not Jr. Panorama" - A look at the Junior Panorama Hits and Misses

...Who nixes an opportunity to showcase the brilliance of their youth in a positive light?  As “Voice” so elegantly chronicled for all time in his 2018 masterpiece Year For Love - What are they fighting for? In other words, where is the documentatio

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Videos Small Finals, TT Panorama 2018

Videos Small Finals, TT Panorama 2018

  Andrea Morrison and her companion have worked overtime to document the Small Conventional Finals, TT Panorama 2018 from Skinner Park, San Fernando, Trinidad, TT on Thursday evening 8th February 2018.

 All 14 Sm

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The Great Switch To "Hello"

Skiffle Steel Orchestra changed their 2018 Panorama tune with five days to go before the Prelim Panorama judging. The results were fantastic as Skiffle heads into semi-finals in second place, tied with Phase II Pan Groove and just two points behind

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The Super Bowl of Pan - THE TOUGH GRIND OF LOW EXPECTATIONS (A look at Panorama 2018 by Dalton Narine)

by Dalton Narine -  A When Steel Talks Exclusive

I wasn’t at all mesmerized by the sheer beauty of the performances by Renegades, Desperadoes and Phase II in the Panorama Large Band semi-final. I believed it would happen and expected the results fro

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Newtown Playboys Retain Championship Single Pan Band Title - Trinidad & Tobago Panorama 2018

2018 Panorama Info Complete

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It is victory for the second year running for Newtown Playboys Steel Symphony, which successfully defended its title in the Single Pan Band category of the 2018 Trinidad and Tobago National Panor

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2018 Panorama Large Band Semi Finals (TOP 10)

Recorded by UTT/ Music Technology

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‘Scanty’ Savannah Greens

Trinidad Newsday -- Sean Douglas

‘Scanty’ Savannah Greens

Not only were some of the outfits scanty at Queens Park Savannah, Port of Spain, yesterday but so was attendance at the Greens, a live-music venue run by Pan Trinbago, north west of the “big

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Single Pan Bands - Order of Appearance - Finals - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama 2018

2018 Panorama Info Complete

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The sounds of steel will resonate at the Basketball Court, Princess Royal Park, Arima, east Trinidad on Sunday January 14, as twenty Single Pan Bands vie for pan music supremacy in their category

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The business of Carnival

Trinidad Newsday -- 

Shell Invaders perform under the direction of arranger Arddin Herbert.

Marina Salandy-Brown writes a weekly column for the Newsday. 

Monday was the preliminaries of the large steelpan bands competition. I did as hundreds of othe

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115 steelbands get cheques

Minister of Community Development , Culture and Arts, Nyan Gabsby-Dolly presents cheque to David Balbosa of the South Central region, Carlan Harewood right, for the Northern region, and looking on is, 2nd from left, Pan Trinbago president Keith Diaz

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Semi-Finals Order of Appearance for Medium Steel Orchestras - Trinidad & Tobago National Steelband Panorama 2018

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -  Trinidad & Tobago’s top fourteen medium steel orchestras are moving on to the Sunday January 28 semi-finals of the country’s 2018 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama competition. The grouping will be first on stage at the Q

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2018 Junior/Schools Panorama Finalists Set for Sunday February 4 Competition - Trinidad & Tobago National Steelband Panorama

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago (Youth Arm) in collaboration with Trinidad & Tobago’s Ministry of Education will co-host the National Schools Panorama Finals at the Queen’s Park Savannah in Port-of-Spain, on Sunday 4 February 2018. Starting ti

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Semi Finals Results for Small Conventional Steel Orchestras - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama 2018

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -  On Saturday January 27 thirty small conventional steel orchestras performed on Park Street, facing Victoria Park in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad - in the semi-finals of their category, aiming to be among the final fourteen maki

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In ah Savannah Party...warm up.

Mixed Playlist

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2018 Semi Finals Panorama Performances - Medium Bands

Pan Elders Steel Orchestra
Panorama 2018 Semi Final Performance
Medium Band Category
Tune of Choice: Limbo Break

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NLCB Buccooneers
Panorama 2018 Semi Final Performance
Medium Band Category
Tune of Choice: I Love Being Me

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Siparia Deltones
Pan

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RBC Redemption Sound Setters have a Nice Time

Trinidad Newsday

RBC Redemption Sound Setters made it to the semi-finals of the National Panorama Large Bands category with a rousing rendition of Arrow’s ‘Nice Time’.

With sweet steelpan music complementing the enchanting ambiance of Bethel, the p

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Order of Judging - Small Conventional Bands Prelims - Trinidad & Tobago Panorama 2018

Monday 15 January 2018 – NORTH –SMALL
1	Merry Tones	No. 1 Bagatelle Road, Diego Martin
2	Cocorite West Wind	Opp. #7 Building, Waterhole, Cocorite
3	Humming Birds Pan Groove	13 Fort George Rd, St. James
4	Harvard Harps	#106 Tragarete Rd, St. Cla

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