Southern-based Pan Elders playing “All Ah We Is One Family” emerged top band in the National Panorama Medium Band category.
The band which played at position five at Skinner Park on Sunday performed Duvone Stewart’s arrangement of the Clive Bradley’s classic to score 270 points.
A total of twenty six (26) bands competed in this category. Adjudication took place on the same day as the Small Conventional Bands but by a separate panel comprising Laurel Broomes-Rogers, Michelle Dowrich, Ezra Joseph and Damian Phillip.
The Semi Final round will take place on Sunday 16th February at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain. Starting time is 12 noon.
Fourteen (14) Medium Bands and fifteen (15) Large Bands will be featured in what has been dubbed “Savannah Party”.
Tickets are available at Cleve’s, Atherly’s, Electro Sounds, Pan Trinbago Head Office, Park Street, at the Ticket Booth, Queen’s Park Savannah, and on line at www.pantrinbago.co.tt
The semi finalists are as follows- (see below).
Posn |
BandName |
Selection |
Score |
1 |
Pan Elders |
Family | 270.00 |
2 |
Sound Specialists Of Laventille | Poison |
267.00 |
3 |
Couva Joylanders |
Free Up |
264.00 |
| 3 | Valley Harps |
Happiest Man Alive |
264.00 |
| 5 |
Katzenjammers |
Spankin' - A Tribute |
259.00 |
6 |
Steel Xplosion | Dust In Dey Face |
257.00 |
7 |
Buccooneers |
Madness |
254.00 |
| 8 | Arima Angel Harps |
In De Minor |
253.00 |
| 9 | Hatters | Live Yuh Life Like You Playing Mas |
250.00 |
10 |
Power Stars |
Take Me With You |
248.00 |
| 11 | Dixieland |
Dis Is It |
244.00 |
11 |
Melodians |
The Hammer |
244.00 |
11 |
Curepe Scherzando |
Pan In The Atmosphere |
244.00 |
| 14 |
St. Margaret's Superstars |
In De Minor |
242.00 |
15 |
Trinidad Valley Harps |
God's Music |
236.00 |
16 |
Panatics Steel Orchestra |
Pan In Yuh Ras |
235.00 |
17 |
San City Steel Symphony |
Take Me With You |
233.00 |
18 |
Western Stars Philharmonics |
Carnival Tabanca |
229.00 |
19 |
West Side Symphony |
No No We Aint Going Home |
226.00 |
19 |
Pamberi |
On The Road |
226.00 |
21 |
Cocorite West Wind |
Pan In Yuh Ras |
224.00 |
21 |
Tokyo |
On De Drag |
224.00 |
23 |
Sangre Grande Cordettes |
Big In The Dance |
219.00 |
24 |
Sforzata |
Spankin' - A Tribute |
216.00 |
25 |
Parry's Pan School |
Calypso Music |
172.00 |
26 |
Flabej Now Ensemble |
Total Disorder |
140.00 |
Comments
The entire South Prelims was excellent several of the bands left a person thinking, that they all deserve to be heard. Pan Elders excelled in the medium bands and Deltons also left us speechless down there. Beautiful music all around