GARY CARDINEZ - Newsday
This flag woman kept the tempo going for the Desperadoes steel orchestra at Tragarete Road. - GARY CARDINEZ
The preliminary round of the national Panorama competition large band category in the Northern Region on Sunday turn
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Pan tuner Wayne Guppy chooses a suitable drum at his pan factory in Laventille. - AYANNA KINSALE
David Rudder sings about the man with the hammer in his song about steelpan tuner, the late Rudolph Charles.
But how does a man with a hammer turn a used
Read more…... and in my books, if you do not know the CALYPSO -- then you might as well not listen to the ARRANGEMENT. So I am yet to listen to ONE BAND play that song IN FULL. And that really destroying my 2020 PANORAMA ENJOYMENT because the song is VERY VERY
Read more…Band: First Citizen Supernovas
Tune: Dear Promoter
Arranger: Amrit Samaroo
Eastern Region
Band: Birdsong
Tune: More Sokah
Arranger: Robert Greenidge
When Steel Talks
When your competition is Shakira and J-Lo on Super Bowl Sunday - You had better come with an A grade production...
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - In an effort to showcase their franchises to the world in the most professional and positiv
Read more…Jan. 31, 2020
(Day 2 - South/Central) Judging in the Panyards/Communities - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama competition: Medium Conventional Steel Orchestra - Preliminaries - South/Central Region steel orchestras. Time: 6:00 p.m. --- 4 steel
Trouble in the Evening
I begin this tale from Trinidad, my wife Adiylah and I had just returned to Canada, from Trinidad mid-January 2020. We were on an extended 7 week trip to Trinidad. My mother celebrated her 101st birthday on December 1st, 2019.
Read more…merrytonestothebone: In America, if you go to the BOOKSTORE or the INTERNET -- you will see all kinda BOOKS and VIDEOS on "SUBJECTS" FOR DUMMIES.
Now, when it comes to PANORAMA ARRANGEMENTS -- I am a REAL DUMMY!!!
However, when it comes to CALYPSO --
Read more…The Rocket Pan aka Ying Yang, Six Pan -- Invented by the late great Rudolph Charles of Desperadoes Steel Orchestra
Photo by Lyndon Spencer
Read more…Panorama 2020 Official Results - Medium Conventional Preliminaries
Newsday - Tobago - COREY CONNELLY
Katzenjammers Steel Orchestra had a strong performance in the preliminaries of the Panorama medium band category on Saturday evening. -
..The bands – NGC Steel Xplosion, Katzenjammers Steel Orchestra and Carib Dixiel
Read more…NLCB Buccooneers Tune: Feeling It - Swappi & Ultimate Rejects Arranger: Seion Gomez
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RBC Redemption Sound Setters
Tune: Wrong Again - Skinny Banton
Arranger: Michael Toby
Feb. 2, 2020
Judging in the Panyards/Communities - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama competition: Large Conventional Steel Orchestra Preliminaries - Northern Region steel orchestras. Time: 7:00 p.m. --- 7 steel orchestras --- Trinidad All Sta
Five bands have performed “Wrong Again” so far for Panorama 2020. Judging from the results of the Medium bands preliminary round, my fears for this tune are on point. To me this tune is not to be attempted by an arranger who is f
Guardian February 3, 2020
"At the end of the exercise, the breakdown is as follows – one band from the North, five from the East, seven from South/Central and three from Tobago Regions."
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