Seven bands competed in the finals of the 2019 Vincy Mas Panorama competition, which was held on Thursday 4 July in Saint Vincent.
Here are the results:
1st. Starlift Steel Orchestra
2nd. Sion Hill Euphorium Steel Orchestra
3rd. Symphonix Steel Or
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The Panimals playing at PANZfest 2019 in Melbourne: Laura Corbet (front left), Scott Brown, Hayden Bartlett, Maraea Henry, Joseph Brady (back left) and Mirabella Uphof. Photo / Holly Munford
Rocklea, Queensland, Australia
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New York, USA - CASYM Inc. — home of the award-winning steelpan ensemble — is starting u
Courts Babonneau Steel Orchestra has pulled a three-peat by winning the 2019 National Panorama Competition.
Courts Babonneau scored 475 points to capture the title for the third consecutive year.
A total of seven bands competed in this year’s compet
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New York, USA - “It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”
- FDR
I remember three years ago, Jahlani and I launched a project...movemen
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan pioneer Curtis Pierre died on Sunday, aged 84. His daughter Giselle said he died peacefully at his Glencoe home.
His granddaughter Quelita, in a Facebook post, invited family and friends to
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New York, USA - ....With resounding clarity and honesty, members of the next generation of leaders, arrangers, tuners, owners, players and managers speak to the dangers and perils that face New York pan. And moreover, that which threatens the New Y
Read more…Basement 2019 Panyard Recordings -- REVISED
Wednesday August 28th:
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Thursday August 29th
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It’s Pan’s Super Concert!
“Pan Sweet Pan… The Solidarity Concert” is fourteen of Trinidad & Tobago’s topnotch steel orchestras rallying to Pan Trinbago’s call to showcase the national instrument on one stage while Carifest
Read more…When Steel Talks extends congratulations to Mangrove Steelband and arranger André White - UK's 2019 Panorama Champions
1st - Mangrove - 284 points
2nd - Metronomes - 270 points
3rd - Ebony - 269 points
4th - Pan Nation - 263 points
5th - Croydon -
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
- Joan Rampersad
She dropped the ball on pan in Carifesta’
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly, Minister of Community Development, Culture and the Arts.
Pan Trinbago is most upset with Minister of Community
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - “Conversations with the Pioneers” is the historical component in Pan Trinbago’s Pan Month calendar of events marking the anniversary of the declaration of the steelpan as the national music instrument of Trinidad & Tobago.
Read more…Pan music for Emancipation 2019 – Trinidad All Stars at a Desperadoes show
At Despers #EmancipateYourselfThroughSteel show, 31st July 2019.
Evening Standard
London, England - It all started back in January 1959. Claudia Jones, a Trinidadian human rights activist, organised a Caribbean Carnival at St. Pancras Town Hall in London – a celebration of West Indian culture that was televised b
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St. George’s, Grenada, W.I. - At Grenada’s 2019 National Panorama, one of the competition's youngest arrangers, Cordel Byam, guided now-twelve-time Panorama champion New Dimension Steel Orchestra to its latest victory lap around the national steelba
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Toronto, Canada - The Trinidad & Tobago Chinese Steel Ensemble (TTCSE) took Toronto by storm during their recently-concluded performances a couple of weeks ago.
....This small ethnic group, captained by Susie Young, received rave reviews from all t
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New York, USA - With enough music magic being generated at the Frederick Loewe Theater to make Harry Potter and his mates jealous, NYU Steel proceeded to turn the capacity audience into life long “Pan Jumbies.”
A long time ago the legendary drummer
Read more…Pan Community comes to celebrate the life of Glenda Gamory, President and founder of Pantonic Steel Orchestra
Brooklyn, New York, USA - On this late May 17 Spring evening, members of the New York steelband community and family and friends of Glenda
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Guaico Presbyterian Steel Orchestra during their winning performance
The Honourable Anthony Garcia, Minister of Education followed, and who—while praising the art form, the event that would unfold throughout the day, and especially the young
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The Carnival may be officially over but come Saturday March 9, Pan Trinbago will relive the memories through its production “Lagniappe… A Night With The Champs,” at the home of Carnival, Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain
