Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Katzenjammers players feeling the music as they perform an arrangement of Sparrow's Lying Excuses for Panorama medium band finals on February 23 in Bacolet, Tobago
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago president Beverley Ramsey-Moore has stoutly defended her band’s victory in the National Panorama Medium Conventional band final at the Dwight Yorke Stadium, Bacolet, Tobago, on February 23.
Ramsey-Moore is the leader of Katzenjammers, which won a hat-trick in the competition with its stirring version of the Mighty Sparrow (Slinger Francisco) tune Lying Excuses.
The song was arranged by her nephew Kersh Ramsey, who also led Katzenjammers to victory in the 2023 and 2024 medium band competitions.
After the presentation, Ramsey-Moore was asked to respond to critics who might regard Katzenjammers as benefiting from bias, owing to her family ties with the arranger and her position as Pan Trinbago president.
Ramsey-Moore responded initially, “Talent is talent.”
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