Single pan competition. Why ?

Thanks MTTB for keeping our pan traditions alive, if you don't know your past, your future is doomed.

Merrytones Steel Orchestra Trinidad - Then, Now and Beyond
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http://www.panonthenet.com/articles/cparticles/merrytones.html

From ANDREW RICHARD MARTIN

Pan-America: Calypso, Exotica, and the Development of Steel Pan in the United States

The annual showcase for steel bands happens in late winter at the Panorama competition of Carnival. Despite its current status as the premier event of the annual Trinidad and Tobago Carnival, Panorama did not traditionally hold such an important position in Trinidadian society, and steel bands gradually integrated into the Carnival competition season.

Steel drum bands in the 1940‘s and 1950‘s participated in Carnival as marching pan-around-the-neck ensembles in the masquerades, and at fetes (large tent parties set up especially for Carnival). On the mornings leading up to the final day of Carnival, rival steel bands would meet in the streets and hold impromptu competitions with a winner ultimately judged by crowd reaction. These competitions were extremely important as a medium for poor neighborhoods to elevate their collective social status in a way that did not involve crime and was blind to social class.

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Cecil hinkson January 14, 2018 at 2:58pm

Pan round the neck is important and we must not loose it.
odw January 14, 2018 at 12:19pm

Icewater Pan Ensemble making a "rounds" at Diego Martin Boys' Primary School 2016 Cooler Fete...
- odw > odw January 15, 2018 at 10:09am
  
  Thanks MTTB for keeping our pan traditions alive, if you don't know your past, your future is doomed.
  
  Merrytones Steel Orchestra Trinidad - Then, Now and Beyond
  For more info check out MTTB 2005 profile at...
  
  http://www.panonthenet.com/articles/cparticles/merrytones.html
  
  From ANDREW RICHARD MARTIN
  
  Pan-America: Calypso, Exotica, and the Development of Steel Pan in the United States
  
  The annual showcase for steel bands happens in late winter at the Panorama competition of Carnival. Despite its current status as the premier event of the annual Trinidad and Tobago Carnival, Panorama did not traditionally hold such an important position in Trinidadian society, and steel bands gradually integrated into the Carnival competition season.
  
  Steel drum bands in the 1940‘s and 1950‘s participated in Carnival as marching pan-around-the-neck ensembles in the masquerades, and at fetes (large tent parties set up especially for Carnival). On the mornings leading up to the final day of Carnival, rival steel bands would meet in the streets and hold impromptu competitions with a winner ultimately judged by crowd reaction. These competitions were extremely important as a medium for poor neighborhoods to elevate their collective social status in a way that did not involve crime and was blind to social class.
  - merrytonestothebone > odw January 15, 2018 at 11:14am
    
    ODW...I can barely remember giving this interview...thanks for the memory...
- Inez John > odw January 14, 2018 at 1:06pm
  
  ODW,
  
  Here's one for you. And this band placed last if not 2nd to last that year. One could only imagine the quality of music the rest had to offer.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwD1BumklQc
- merrytonestothebone > odw January 14, 2018 at 12:58pm
  
  That's me on tenor in the hat....lol...
  - odw > merrytonestothebone January 14, 2018 at 1:15pm
    
    I see Kendall still doing his ting at the 2016 Cooler Fete, is that him on the far right in this 50s album picture?
    - merrytonestothebone > odw January 14, 2018 at 1:28pm
      
      yes...
- odw > odw January 14, 2018 at 12:50pm
Claude Gonzales January 14, 2018 at 12:03pm

PAN AROUND THE NECK is GONE GONE GONE!!!

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