GARY CARDINEZ - Trinidad Newsday -- Sunday, February 5 2017
It was no magic fairy tale ride to the top for newly crowned Single Pan Champion Newtown Playboys Steel Symphony.
Just after 14 months in operation at its 64, Tragarete Road, Newtown home, the band ran away with the title after playing a Carlan Harewood arrangement of Superblue’s “Get Something and Wave”, leaving all and sundry in its wake in the finals at Arima Velodrome on January 29.
Former mayor of Port-of-Spain Keron Valentine, who is the band’s chairman, spoke with Sunday Newsday about a dream coming true.
“Newtown Playboys is a steelband, pan theatre and sport and cultural organisation which was born out of the need to further develop the Playboyz brand, a link to its neighbour, Woodbrook Playboyz, on the the cultural landscape of Trinidad and Tobago and by extension the world.
“It was formed on August 25, 2015 and launched on November 21 of that same year,” he said.
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