by Golden Hands Steel Orchestra
Panorama 2020 has been an historic one. Besides being the first to span a two-year period (2019-2020), it will be the first to have a final staged in our sister isle, Tobago.
To me, more
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The music was so sweet for this player from Courts Sounds Specialists which competed in the medium bands category at the Queen's Park Savannah. PHOTO BY WARREN LE PLATTE - WARREN LE PLATTE
Curepe Scherzando, playing in last
Read more…2020 Panorama Semi-Finals at the Queen's Park Savannah
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Eleven large steel orchestras from the original fourteen semi-finalists withstood the musical test in the large category and are through to the Trinidad & Tobago’s National 2020 Panorama finals, to be held at the same venue
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - What began as a sunny and windy afternoon greeted pan players and attendees alike when the Panorama 2020 Semi-finals aka “Savannah Party” got started shortly after 1:00 p.m. local time, with Trinidad Valley Harps first up.
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Pan Trinbago president Beverley Ramsey-Moore, National Carnival Commission chairman Winston "Gypsy" Peters and Culture Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly tour the facilities at the Queen's Park Savannah ahead of Sunday's lar
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by Sharmain Baboolal
#ChroniclesofAPanorama.
If this was titled self excellence, in the headline, Akinola Sennon would have been blacklisted by the time his band, Siparia Deltones, crossed the stage at the Panorama semifinals. His refreshing arrange
Suraya Mohamed - NPR
Here's a first: Steelpans at the Tiny Desk. It's true. Nearly a thousand performances into the series and the instrument has never been featured, until now. While the two bowls look shiny and new in this Jonathan Scales Fourches
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - In spite of the all the brew-haha and local controversy over the recently-constructed “Pan-City” for Panorama 2020, some of the oldest and most revered steel orchestras in the world have vowed to display continued commitmen
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The Live Online Broadcast - IF/WHEN IT BECOMES AVAILABLE - 2020 Panorama Semi-Finals at the Queen's Park Savannah.
Order of Appearance Medium | Large
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IT WOULD not be an exaggeration to say that Kitchener’s music ruled the road. Apart from winning the Road March five times in the 1970s, his calypsoes were played by the winning Panorama large bands seven times.
From Margie to Play Mas, Tr
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SWEET VICTORY: Katzenjammers Steel Orchestra members celebrate reclaiming the large band title at THA Pan Champs on Wednesday evening at Parade Grounds, Bacolet. PHOTO BY DAVID REID - DAVID REID
KINNESHA GEORGE-HARRY
Katzenjammers S
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - In tandem with the recent article Large Steel Orchestras Take Control of their Live Stream Broadcast and Production, WST (When Steel Talks) touched base with on-air personality and cultural activist Gerelle Forbes, who embo
Read more…1 - Trinidad Valley Harps
2 - Steel Xplosion
3 - San City Steel Symphony
4 - Katzenjammers
5 - Pan Elders
6 - Dixieland
7 - Tornadoes
8 - Pamberi
9 - Couva Joylanders
10 - Sound Specialists of Laventille
11 - Siparia Deltones
12 - Potential Symphony
National Panorama 2020 Semi-Finals - Large Steel Orchestras
1. Exodus
2. Buccaneers
3. Invaders
4. Skiffle
5. Birdsong
6. Supernovas
7. Tropical Angel Harps
8. Trinidad All Stars
9. Renegades
10. La Brea Nightingales
11. Phase II Pan Groove
12. Foncl
Eastern Region
Band: birdsong
Tune: More Sokah
Arranger: Robert Greenidge
Eastern Region
Band: Exodus
Tune: Dear Promoter
Arranger: Terrance "BJ" Marcelle
Band: Supernovas
Tune: Dear Promoter
Arranger: Amrit Samaroo
Priceton Alumni
Calypso music of Trinidad and Tobago was in the air as the PRINCETON UNIVERSITY STEEL BAND performed in concert Dec. 11. The event was the culmination of MUS 231, a course that instructor Josh Quillen said al
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#ChroniclesofAPanorama
Revolution wanted.
Six people would hold us hostage throughout the night. We surrendered all our emotions to them. As if they were Gods as they sat like Kings and Queens on thrones. Vanity surpassed the qu
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