Panorama 2025 Medium Steel Orchestra Competition Participants - Trinidad and Tobago Panorama

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Participating steel orchestras in the medium category of the 2025 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama are in the spotlight from February 4 through 8 during the preliminary phase in this year’s competition.

Meet the arranger

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Trinidad & Tobago unveil new coat of arms after Columbus’ ships replaced with Steelpan

Trinidad and Tobago’s PM has previously stated that the three Columbus ships on the twin-island nation’s emblem is “substantial in how we see ourselves.”

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Pamberi Steel Orchestra - Panorama 2025 - Preliminary Performance

Pamberi Steel Orchestra

2025 Tune of choice:  “Too Own Way”  |  arranger:  André White

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2025 East Medium Steel Orchestra Prelims - Panyard Judging

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It is a big evening for steelpan in the Eastern region of Trinidad as steel orchestras compete in panyard judging for the preliminaries. On Wednesday February 5 Sangre Grande Cordettes Steel Orchestra is scheduled to kick o

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2025 Junior Panorama Results: Renegades, Sando Boys, B.A.T.C.E. also Champions

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Intermittent sprinkles of rain took a back seat to full torrents of steelband music taking center stage at the Grand Stand, Queen’s Park Savannah in Port-of-Spain. The event? The 2025 Trinidad and Tobago Junior National Pan

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10 Things to know when attending your first Pan Crawl

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It’s Panorama season in Trinidad and Tobago which is in the thick of Carnival events and one of the best ways to show support for the national instrument, the Steelpan, and to have

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Order of Appearance for Junior Panorama 2025 Finals - Trinidad and Tobago

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Order of Appearance for Junior Panorama 2025 Finals - Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The country’s talented youthful representation of the steelband art form will shine through steel orchestras from twelve Primary and ten Secondary schools, along with twelve ‘21 and Under’ bands as all compete for titles i

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2025 Small Steel Orchestra Finals Results - Golden Hands and New East Side Dimension Steel Orchestras Tie for First

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It was double the celebration for two champion bands in the small steel orchestra category on final night. Doing the Southland proud was Golden Hands Steel Orchestra with arranger Vanessa Headley-Brewster, as the music orga

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Finals: Order of Appearance - SMALL Steel Orchestras - Panorama 2025

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - And then there were fourteen; but first there were forty-four - small conventional steel orchestras, that is. All in quest of the musical grail - the small steel orchestra championship trophy and accompanying prize purse. A

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Small Steel Orchestra Semi-Finals 2025 Results - Trinidad & Tobago Panorama

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - ....Saturday After more than ten hours of competitive performances, last of all from the defending champion New East Side Dimension, the competition wrapped musically at 2:13 a.m. Results came around 2:40 a.m. And the reign

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Semi-Finals: Order of Appearance - SMALL Steel Orchestras - Panorama 2025

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Saturday January 18 is the big day for thirty-one small steel orchestras as they take to the semi-finals stage at Victoria Square in Port-of-Spain. All intend to make the final cut, having pushed through this far.

Arima Gol

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Results - Small Steel Orchestra Preliminaries - Panorama 2025

Global - The preliminary phase for the Small steel orchestras featured forty-four bands performing before a panel of judges in respective venues/panyards. This is the first in the three conventional steel orchestra categories of the 2025 Trinidad &

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2025 TOBAGO Small Conventional Steel Orchestra Preliminaries - Panyard Judging

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The final two nights of preliminary performances in the small conventional steel orchestra category begin Sunday January 12 in the sister isle of Tobago. Four bands are scheduled to perform each night, with reigning Small

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2025 SOUTH/CENTRAL Small Conventional Steel Orchestra Preliminaries - Panyard Judging

 Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - More steel orchestras in the small conventional category will grace the ‘stage’—that being their respective panyards—in the presence of judges, as they vie for a spot in the January 18 semi-finals coming off at Victoria Sq

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2025 EASTERN Small Conventional Steel Orchestra Preliminaries - Panyard Judging

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The second leg of preliminary competition in the 2025 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama small conventional steel orchestra category, features bands from the Eastern region. Over the course of three nights—Monday January

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2025 NORTH Small Conventional Steel Orchestra Preliminaries - Panyard Judging

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Small steel orchestras begin their competition for the 2025 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama, with bands around the twin-island country performing in their respective preliminary phases.

see judging schedule

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Single Pan 2025 - Finals Results - San Juan East Side Symphony snags Championship with arranger Duvone Stewart

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - And the last shall be “first.” That’s the way things apparently ‘played’ out for the finals of the 2025 season of the Single Pan band component of the annual Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama. San Juan East Side Symphony

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Tribute to Uric 'Ragga dat' Reid, Casablanca and City Syncopators player

 

Tribute to Uric ‘Ragga dat’ Reid
February 23, 1931-November 4, 2024
Uric Reid aka Ragga dat travelled from sixth street Barataria with his friend Joe Roseman to rehearse with City Syncopators. Joe recalled playing second pan on Carnival days with Ra

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Single Pan Bands - Order of Appearance - Finals - 2025 Trinidad & Tobago National Steelband Panorama

Global - Title defenders Chord Masters Steel Orchestra take the stage in sixth position, at the finals of the Single Pan Bands for the 2025 season of the Trinidad and Tobago National Panorama. Twenty-four bands are all performing with the expressed

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