Ray Holman’s Pan on the Move marks 50 years with film

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Len “Boogsie” Sharpe, who, until 1972, was a player with Starlift, where Holman was arranger

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Carnival 1972 was a standout year in Trinidad and Tobago’s festival history, not just because of its postponement from February to May in response to a polio outbreak. It was also the year Ray Holman revolutionised Panorama with his ground-breaking Pan on the Move.

Now, 50 years later, the story of the song’s creation; the professional challenges it created for Holman; and the ways in which the piece became a turning point in steelband history are all being showcased in a new documentary that premieres on March 13.

A collaboration between Mark Loquan Music and Gerelle Forbes of Sthenic22, the seed for the documentary was planted not long after Holman released his 2020 album First Love.

....The landmark Pan on the Move documentary premieres on Sunday, first during Duvone Stewart’s Pan Chronicles programme on Facebook in the afternoon, then later that evening on the Mark Loquan Music YouTube channel.

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