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. These were selected from the original fifty-three bands which competed in the preliminaries, from the Northern, Eastern, South Central and Tobago regions.
With the amended theme “Steel Crescendo... an Explosion of Music and Rivalry,” this year’s Panorama competition, the 55th edition, will be the culmination of eight days of preliminary judging at the respective participants’ pan yards across Trinidad & Tobago.
The finalists were announced on Friday morning at The Murchison Brown Auditorium, Knox Street, Port-of-Spain. Later that day, the bands’ representatives drew for playing position at Pan Trinbago’s Head Office.
Woodbrook Playboyz topped the Preliminary round with 278 points for the Michelle Huggins-Watt’s arrangement of “Ah Want It’ composed by Johnston King, whilst defending champions Newtown Playboys Steel Ensemble amassed 270 points in a three-way tie with Pan Fanatics and Uni Stars in eighth position.
For Sunday’s competition the adjudication panel will comprise Vorbin Cordice, Dr. Audley Timothy, Brendon Moore, Joslynne Sealey, Dexter Asson and Cuthbert Matthews. Bands will be judged on the basis of Arrangement (40), General Performance (40), Tone (10) and Rhythm (10) points.
Order of Appearance - Single Pan Bands - Finals |
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| Appearance Order/ Qualifying score / Position |
Band | Selection/ Performer |
Arranger |
| #1 269.5 pts ( 11th ) |
San Juan All Stars | Iron Man (Lord Kitchener) |
Hammond Mitchell & Seon Villoreul |
| #2 270 pts ( 8th ) |
Pan Fanatics | Doh Back Back (Mighty Sparrow) |
Lyndon Rowley |
| #3 277 pts ( 2nd ) |
Pan Jammers | Signal Lara (Superblue) |
 Robert Tobitt |
| #4 267 pts ( 17th ) |
San Juan Eastside Symphony | Dis Party Is It (Chris “Tambu” Herbert) |
Akiba “Panman” Joseph |
| #5 270 pts ( 8th ) |
Uni Stars | Bun Dem (Black Stalin) |
 Kareem Brown |
| #6 269 pts ( 12th ) |
Shades In Steel | Bounce (Superblue) |
 Danté Pantin |
| #7 267 pts ( 17th ) |
Star Sapphire | Black Man Feeling To Party (Black Stalin) |
N/A |
| #8 271.5 pts ( 6th ) |
Trinidad Nostalgic | By All Means (Machel Montano with Xtatik) |
 Amrit Samaroo |
| #9 267 pts ( 17th ) |
Curepe Polyphonics | Leave Me Alone (Remix) (Calypso Rose & Machel Montano) |
Nathaniel “Crix” Flemming |
| #10 269 pts ( 12th ) |
Edinburgh 500 Steel Ensemble | Rock It (Dennis “Merchant” Franklyn Williams) |
Andre Boldan |
| #11 269 pts ( 12th ) |
Marsicans | Party Time Again (Bally) |
 Marlon White |
| #12 278 pts ( 1st ) |
Woodbrook Playboyz | Ah Want It (Johnny King) |
The Group |
| #13 270 pts ( 8th ) |
Newtown Playboys Steel Symphony | The Hammer (David Rudder) |
 Carlon Harewood |
| #14 269 pts ( 12th ) |
Nu Pioneers Pan Groove | Black Man Feeling To Party (Black Stalin) |
Shaun Marcano |
| #15 277 pts ( 2nd ) |
T&T Fire Service | Du Du Yemi ( Natasha) (Mighty Sparrow) |
 Terrance “BJ” Marcelle |
| #16 276 pts ( 4th ) |
La Famille United | Golo (Second Imij featuring Russell Cadogan) |
 Triston Marcano |
| #17 271 pts ( 7th ) |
Chord Masters | Stranger (Mighty Shadow) |
Esan Smity |
| #18 272 pts ( 5th ) |
Metro Stars | Rant Rave (Chris “Tambu” Herbert) |
 Ken “Professor” Philmore & Steve Jack |
| #19 268 pts ( 16th ) |
Platinum | Soca Baptist (Superblue) |
 Natasha Joseph |
| #20 267 pts ( 17th ) |
La Creole Pan Groove | Signal To Lara (Superblue) |
 Jamal “Meck Meck” Gibbs |
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Newtown Playboys won, 2018 champs, congrats...
VIBE CT 105Fm and Wack 90.1 Fm Livestream. Not 100% sure . Will know tomorrow.
Anybody know if this will be either streamed, or broadcast on a radio station with online streaming?