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The Bradley Years represent the definitive collection of steelband music arrangements and performances for a large steel orchestra. This collection showcases seven classic arrangements from the master arranger Clive Bradley.  Bradley is considered to be the best steelband music arranger ever by many, including his peers.  In addition, the arrangements are performed by one of the finest steelbands in the world, New York’s Pantonic Steel Orchestra. Clive Bradley had a very special relationship with Pantonic.  This orchestra clinched the title of panorama champions five times in seven years - performing Bradley’s musical works.  The performances were captured by Basement Recordings days before, and in one instance, mere moments before they took the stage for the prestigious annual steelband music panorama competition. 

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 2018 Trinidad and Tobago National Steelband Panorama Info - Complete

Carnival and Panorama 2018

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - PanOnTheNet/WhenSteelTalks is Panorama Central!  Complete information on the 2018 season of the Trinidad and Tobago National Panorama, and competitions:  Schedules, Orders of Appearance for preliminary, semi-final and final phases for large, medium and small conventional steel orchestras, and single pan bands; arrangers’ bios, bios of steel orchestras; full results, panyard addresses, history of previous Panoramas, and much more!
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 Trinidad and Tobago Steelband Panorama and Carnival Schedule 2018
Carnival and Panorama 2018

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Complete Trinidad and Tobago 2018 National Panorama competition schedule. All rounds - preliminary, semi-finals and finals.
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Web Posted - Tuesday January 30, 2018
Trinidad Express Newspapers

Unsponsored bands get $1.3m from ministry
Pan Trinbago East Zone chairman Carlon Harewood collected the cheques from Culture Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby- Dolly (center), at Nicholas Tower, Independence Square, Port of Spain.

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago president Keith Diaz said the $1.3 million which was received for 115 community-based steelbands will ensure Carnival participation in areas beyond Port of Spain.

Diaz was speaking yesterday after Pan Trinbago East Zone chairman Carlon Harewood collected the cheques from Culture Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly, at Nicholas Tower, Independence Square, Port of Spain.

He was also accompanied by North Zone chairman Gerard Mendez and South/ Central official David Balbosa. Community steelbands normally play at J’Ouvert celebrations in the respective areas.

‘The money goes towards the unsponsored bands,’ said Diaz. ‘It is a tad late but it will help them. They may not come to Port of Spain but they put in a lot of energy and time into making Carnival enjoyable and successful. They play in a number of areas like Brazil, Biche, Mayaro and Tamana.

Panists come from Point Fortin, Cumuto, Erin and Sangre Grande. In Tobago, they play from Roxborough to Black Rock.’
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Web Posted - Sunday January 28, 2018
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 Semi Finals Results for LARGE Conventional Steel Orchestras - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama 2018

Carnival and Panorama 2018

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It might be down to the wire for title defenders Trinidad All Stars as they are currently in fourth place, tied with Skiffle, going into the February 10, 2018 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama finals - but do not count these “All Stars” out. However challenger to the throne Renegades Steel Orchestra led by champion arranger Duvone Stewart is intent on holding its own lead going into final night competition.

The last time Renegades were Panorama champions was 1997- twenty-one years ago. Playing ‘Year For Love’ - could 2018 be the ‘Year For Renegades and Duvone Stewart?’ Time will tell.
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Web Posted - Sunday January 28, 2018
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 Semi Finals Results for MEDIUM Conventional Steel Orchestras - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama 2018

Carnival and Panorama 2018

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Defending champions Pan Elders maintain their lead going into the finals with a top score of 279 in this, the medium steel orchestra category of the 2018 Trinidad and Tobago National Panorama. Led by Duvone Stewart playing an ‘oldie,’ “Limbo Break,” the steel orchestra now looks ahead to the February 10 competition. If successful, it will be Pan Elders’ fifth consecutive championship in the medium category.
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Web Posted - Saturday January 27, 2018
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 Semi Finals Results for SMALL Conventional Steel Orchestras - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama 2018

Carnival and Panorama 2018

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - On Saturday January 27 thirty small conventional steel orchestras performed on Park Street, facing Victoria Park in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad - in the semi-finals of their category, aiming to be among the final fourteen making it through to the championship round. These thirty were the best of the original forty-three participants at the start of the competition.

Scoring 277, defending champions La Horquetta Pan Groove are now currently tied for fourth place with Tobago’s very own Uptown Fascinators.
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Web Posted - Thursday January 25, 2018
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

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Desperadoes players gave a fantastic showing for the judges.

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It was pure music rivalry on a night for love as the seven large conventional steel orchestras in the North Zone competed in the preliminary round for the National Panorama competition last Monday.

The event saw several soca artistes performing in the panyards before the steelbands played their songs for the judges.
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 Semi-Finals Order of Appearance for LARGE Steel Orchestras - Trinidad & Tobago National Steelband Panorama 2018

Carnival and Panorama 2018

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Following the announcement of the fourteen semi-finalists in the large steel orchestra category of the 2018 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama competition, the order in which they will take the stage this Sunday January 28 is now known. The bands meet up at the Queen’s Park Savannah in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. Title defenders Trinidad All Stars Steel Orchestra appear in position number two.
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 Semi-Finals Order of Appearance for MEDIUM Steel Orchestras - Trinidad & Tobago National Steelband Panorama 2018
Carnival and Panorama 2018

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Trinidad & Tobago’s top fourteen medium steel orchestras are moving on to the Sunday January 28 semi-finals of the country’s 2018 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama competition. The grouping will be first on stage at the Queen’s Park Savannah in Port-of-Spain, to be followed by the large category steel orchestras. Event start time is carded for 1:00 p.m.

Defending champions Pan Elders in this, the medium steel orchestra category, will perform in position five.
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 Semi-Finals Order of Appearance for SMALL Steel Orchestras - Trinidad & Tobago National Steelband Panorama 2018
Carnival and Panorama 2018

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Laventille Serenaders with their arrangement of Winston Bailey’s “Shadow” topped the National Panorama Small Band Preliminaries with 279 points. They and twenty-nine other steel orchestras proceed to the Semi Final round on Saturday January 27 in front of Victoria Square, Park Street, Port-of-Spain at 1:00 p.m. Admission is TT $100.00.
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 Preliminary Results for LARGE Conventional Steel Orchestras - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama 2018

Carnival and Panorama 2018

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Renegades Steel Orchestra topped the preliminary round of the 2018 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama competition. With this round now relegated to the history books, it is now official which fourteen bands will move on to the semi-finals slated for this coming weekend, Sunday January 28 at the Queen’s Park Savannah in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. birdsong Steel Orchestra and Genesis Pan Groove are the two which were eliminated in the preliminary. The fourteen large semi-finalists join fourteen in the medium category - that competition which also unfolds on Sunday.
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 Complete Preliminary Results for MEDIUM Conventional Steel Orchestras - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama 2018

Carnival and Panorama 2018

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - In the medium band category - fourteen steel orchestras out of the twenty-five which eventually participated in the preliminary phase of the 2018 Trinidad and Tobago National Panorama - will move on to the semi-final competition at the Big Yard at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port-of-Spain, this coming weekend on Sunday January 28.

This is the second year running that the style of judging in the pan yards was applied to the medium (and small) steel orchestras - instead of meet-ups at 'regional' venues. Prior, this was the case of the large conventional steel orchestras, where judges visited those pan yards, generally with a caravan of supporters in tow.
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 Preliminary Results for SMALL Conventional Steel Orchestras - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama 2018

Carnival and Panorama 2018

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Forty-three preliminary participants in the small conventional steel orchestra category in the 2018 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama - but only thirty could move forward to the semi final phase this Saturday, January 27. The 2017 champions La Horquetta Pan Groove face off with their twenty-nine challengers for a spot in the finals when they compete in Saturday’s competition, which begins at 1:00 p.m. on Park Street just in front of Victoria Square, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.
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Web Posted - Monday January 22, 2018
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Exodus stops traffic in St Augustine

TRAFIC STOPPER: Exodus performing in St Augustine on Friday night.

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It appeared to be divine intervention at work as judges moved from Genesis to Exodus, as the Preliminary round of judging for Large Conventional Bands for the National Panorama competition kicked off on Saturday evening.

Traffic on both lanes of the Eastern Main Road, St Augustine, came to a standstill as the large crowd of supporters and pan music lovers met at Republic Bank Exodus Steel Orchestra long before the judges arrived at their panyard.

Hundreds of people gathered to hear Exodus perform BJ Marcelle and Pelham Goddard’s arrangement of Patrice Roberts’ 2018 hit Sweet for Days.
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Web Posted - Sunday January 21, 2018
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Former UWI Creative Arts coordinator, Dr Anne-Marion Osborne, has died

Dr Anne-Marion OsborneTrinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Former coordinator of the Department of Creative and Festival Arts, Dr Anne-Marion Osborne, has passed away after struggling with illness.

In a statement the Department said Dr. Osborne passed away on Saturday.

“”.....She was instrumental in the conceptualization, development and implementation (1995) of Graded Examinations in Solo Steelpan Performance.

....In addition to her work in educating musicians, she has served as adjudicator at many Steelband Music Festivals at home and abroad.
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Web Posted - Tuesday January 19, 2018
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Lizzie Lowe - Turning musical challenges into successes!

Lizzie Lowe

Global - Lizzie is an amazing individual whose musical journey has taken her into challenging situations that have proven to be her stepping-stones towards the grooming of the outstanding musician she has become.

Her drive and determination has seen her embrace challenges head on and her work rate is outstanding. All these factors coupled with her lovely demeanor have proven to be a winning formula.
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 Small Conventional Steel Orchestra Preliminaries - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama 2018

Carnival and Panorama 2018

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Six Small Conventional Steel Orchestras in the Northern Region i.e. Merry Tones, Cocorite West Wind, Humming Birds Pan Groove, Harvard Harps, Tokyo and Blue Diamonds, started the Preliminary judging at their respective pan yards on Monday 15 January.
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 Medium Conventional Steel Orchestra Preliminaries - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama 2018

Carnival and Panorama 2018

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Preliminary judging for the National Panorama Medium Conventional Steel Orchestra category commences on Friday 19 January in the Eastern Region with eight participants.
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 Large Conventional Steel Orchestra Preliminaries - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama 2018

Carnival and Panorama 2018

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Seventeen steel orchestras have registered for their category in the National Panorama Large Bands category in 2018.
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Web Posted - Saturday January 13, 2018
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian

Female pan pioneer, 79, still going strong

Daisy James-McClean receiving her Humming Bird Medal in 2005 from T&T’s fourth President, the late Prof George Maxwell Richards.

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - To say that panist, lecturer, pan pioneer Daisy James-McClean has paid her dues in the steel band world is an understatement. The 79-year-old passed through the infamous bottle and stone pelting steel band wars from the 50s, with bands such as Casablanca from Belmont, Invaders from Woodbrook and Tokyo from John John, dodging hails of missiles, running and hiding from police with her brothers in an era where men were stigmatized as “bad johns” in steel band. It was a rarity in the early days for a woman to be playing pan, getting licks with a broomstick and pot spoon from her mother and running away in secret to play the instrument she loved.
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Web Posted - Sunday January 13, 2018
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Song for Panorama 2018
‘Youth Take Over’
sung by “Singerboy Sergio”
Artwork for ‘Youth Take Over’ by Sergio Camejo

Global - 18-year old Sergio “Singerboy Sergio” Camejo of Fatima College has won the National Schools Soca Monarch in 2011 (Primary) and in 2015 (Secondary). He came 2nd in 2016 with his composition ‘PACE.’ and took back the Junior Soca Monarch title in 2017 (3rd Title) with his breakout soca hit, ‘DAZ YUH BUSINESS!’

Sergio is well known for his lead performances with the Marionettes Chorale, The Fatima Senior Boys’ Choir, and the Tallman Foundation Workshops. 2018 sees Sergio going to the next level with “Youth Take Over!”
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Web Posted - Sunday January 13, 2018
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Song for Panorama 2018
‘The Jamettery’
sung by David Rudder
David Rudder

Global - ...In the early days, David Rudder acquired a reputation as a back-up singer in the calypso tent run by Lord Kitchener, while earning his living as an accountant with the Trinidad Bus Company. Rudder’s first big break came when Christopher “Tambu” Herbert, lead singer with Charlie’s Roots, fell ill after an exhausting tour of Guyana and suggested his friend Rudder as a temporary replacement.

Rudder stayed on as a co-lead singer, and built a reputation for his scintillating performances. His exposure to Shango and the Pan Yards influenced his music, he was also influenced by Jazz and African artists such as Yossou N’Dour, Alpha Blondy. He is known as one of the few band singers who wrote all his own songs.

Featured here is one of his 2018 tracks, ‘The Jamettery.’
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Web Posted - Saturday January 13, 2018
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 Single Pan Bands - Finals Results - Trinidad & Tobago Panorama 2018 - Newtown Playboys Retain Championship Single Pan Band Title

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It is victory for the second year running for Newtown Playboys Steel Symphony, which successfully defended its title in the Single Pan Band category of the 2018 Trinidad and Tobago National Panorama.

Performing a David Rudder classic - ‘The Hammer’ - arranged by Carlon Harewood, it was a close competition, with the winners a single point ahead of the second-place band, Pan Jammers, which came in with 285 points. A tie for third between Marsicans and the T&T Fire Service single pan bands rounded out the top positions.
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Web Posted - Saturday January 13, 2018
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 Single Pan Bands - Order of Appearance - Finals - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama 2018

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The sounds of steel will resonate at the Basketball Court, Princess Royal Park, Arima, east Trinidad on Sunday January 14, as twenty Single Pan Bands vie for pan music supremacy in their category. These were selected from the original fifty-three bands which competed in the preliminaries, from the Northern, Eastern, South Central and Tobago regions.

The finalists were announced on Friday morning at The Murchison Brown Auditorium, Knox Street, Port-of-Spain. Later that day, the bands’ representatives drew for playing position at Pan Trinbago’s Head Office.
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Web Posted - Friday January 12, 2018
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

CAL pulls Invaders sponsorship
CAL pulls Invaders $$ but manager tells fans: see you in Savannah
Invaders Steel Orchestra plays at the Panorama Finals at the Queen's Park Savannah in 2016

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Weeks before National Panorama finals, Caribbean Airlines has pulled its sponsorship from the Invaders Steel Orchestra because of economic constraints the airline is facing.

Confirmation came from Invaders manager Michael Dim Chong. He said word came via a formal letter the band received on Wednesday.

Dim Chong said this would have a tremendous impact on the 77-year-old band, but not so much that it would have to pull out from the competition.
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Web Posted - Tuesday January 9, 2018
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Songwriter Jovan James Rocking the Panorama & Carnival Music World Again - UpClose!

Jovan James - songwriter, pan musician

Global - In the inner circles of Soca music creation and production, the name Jovan James is well known, as he has singularly written, or co-written, hits for some of the biggest Soca stars in Caribbean. The list reads like a who’s who of heavy hitters - Machel, Kes, Destra, Peter Ram, 5Star Akil, Teddyson John, King Bubba - just to name a few.

From Machel Montano’s ‘Temperature’ to 5Star Akil’s ‘Different Me’ to 2018’s runaway hit ‘Sweet Fuh Days’ performed by Patrice Roberts - they’ve all come from the creative mind of Jovan James. In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks, panist and songwriter Jovan James speaks about his blockbusting success with producing popular Caribbean music for the party scene and adopted within the Panorama music genre.
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Web Posted - Monday January 8, 2018
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Honeymoon over: Boogsie dumps "Sokah" and says "Hello" to Kees
Sokah

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Legendary pan arranger Len Boogsie Sharpe is apologising to Nailah Blackman and her camp for dropping her song, ‘Sokah’, as the tune of choice for Phase II Pan Groove.

Sharpe told Loop that while he was close to finishing the ‘Sokah’ arrangement, Kees Dieffenthaller's ‘Hello’ on the Folklore Riddim took over his mind, body and soul.

He said he heard ‘Hello’ at a Christmas party in the panyard and it kept playing in his head.

“It is a great song. I want to apologise to Nailah and her whole crew for not holding on to the song, it was a tough decision I had to make,” he said.
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Web Posted - Sunday January 7, 2018
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Song for Panorama 2018
‘Hello’
sung by “Kes”
“Kes” Hello - art work

Global - ‘Kes’ performs the track ‘Hello.’  It is history-making in its own right - as it is reportedly currently the tune of choice for champion arranger Len “Boogsie” Sharpe with his legendary Phase II Pan Groove, as they make a play for what would be their first championship since 2014. 

It is also the first time in decades that the ace arranger would be taking his legacy steel orchestra to the Panorama stage performing music that he did not compose.
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Web Posted - Sunday January 7, 2018
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Song for Panorama 2018
‘(ITF) Inside The Festival’
sung by “Ultimate Rejects”
“Ultimate Rejects”

Global - Ultimate Rejects have two tracks that are in play for the 2018 Panorama season. The one featured here, ‘(ITF) Inside The Festival,’ is the tune of choice for three steel orchestras in the large band category.

Fonclaire Steel Orchestra, Invaders Steel Orchestra and La Brea Nightingales are all looking for this one to take them all the way to the top via the Big Yard on championship night.
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Web Posted - Sunday January 7, 2018
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Song for Panorama 2018
‘Sweet Fuh Days’
sung by Patrice Roberts
Patrice Roberts

Global - ‘Sweet Fuh Days’ is making musical waves not only on the soca scene for Carnival, but also in the 2018 Panorama arena.

Exodus Steel Orchestra, Supernovas Steel Orchestra and Tropical Angel Harps have all found this song irresistible, and have chosen it as their Panorama tune. Each is confident that the judges will find their respective arrangement and performance top notch.  The track is written by Jovan James, who also wrote 2016’s/2017’s monster smash ‘Good Morning’ - itself a 2017 Panorama favorite, being the most-played song in the competition.
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Web Posted - Saturday January 6, 2018
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Song for Panorama 2018
‘Trouble’
sung by Vanessa Alexandra Headley

Vanessa Headley

Global - In 2015 Vanessa Alexandra Headley put forward Pan In D Galaxy as her tune for Panorama, while Young And Free was her choice in Panorama 2016, with Push! coming in 2017 - all written, vocalized and arranged by her for her band, Golden Hands  Steel Orchestra.

For the 2018 Panorama season Vanessa is back to raise a musical ruckus with Trouble, the track featured here.
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Web Posted - Friday January 5, 2018
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 Single Pan Bands - Preliminaries, South/Central, Tobago Regions - Trinidad & Tobago Panorama 2018

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - South/Central and Tobago Bands will be the focus of attention next week as the National Panorama Single Pan Bands Preliminaries continue across Trinidad & Tobago.

In the south, New Age Trendsetters of Chaguanas will be the first of four bands to be judged in that region on Tuesday 9 January. The other six will go through their musical paces on Wednesday January 10. Performances on both days begin at 7:00 p.m. Winding up Wednesday’s segment is Jah Roots of Point Fortin with Lord Melody’s “Mama Look Ah Booboo.”

In Tobago, Metro Stars of Pembroke will lead off the judging process.
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Web Posted - Friday January 5, 2018
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 Single Pan Bands - Preliminaries, Eastern Region - Trinidad & Tobago Panorama 2018

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Multiple compositions by Dr. Winsford “Joker” Devine, Dr. Leroy Calliste, Neil Iwer George, Machel Montano, Austin Lyons and Dennis Franklin Williams have been selected by bands in the Eastern Region for their tunes of choice as preliminaries of the National Panorama Single Pan Band competition continue this weekend.

Four of the competing bands - Cocorite Road Pan Groovers (“This Melody Sweet”), Arima All Stars (“This Melody Sweet”), Pan Elites (“Ah Feeling It”), and Pan Stereonettes (“Say Say), have opted to play Winsford “Joker” Devine’s compositions as sung by Timothy “The Baron” Watkins.
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Web Posted - Thursday January 4, 2018
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 Single Pan Bands - Preliminaries, Northern Region - Trinidad & Tobago Panorama 2018

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The National Panorama Single Pan Band Competition 2018 kicks off tonight with bands in the North facing the four-man adjudication panel from 7:00 p.m.


First off the starting block is reigning Single Pan champion Newtown Playboys Steel Symphony. For the competition, they have chosen David Rudder’s “Hammer” arranged by Carlon “Panman” Harewood. Newtown Woodbrook Playboys will be judged at their Woodford Street panyard.
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Web Posted - Thursday January 4, 2018
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 Single Pan Prelims Kick Off 2018 Steelband Panorama In Trinidad & Tobago

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - 2017 National Panorama Single Pan champ Newtown Playboys Steel Symphony, is the first Northern-Region band expected to perform before Pan Trinbago’s Adjudication Panel at the band’s Tragarete Road Pan Theatre, on the evening of Thursday, January 4.

Playing David Rudder’s “Hammer” arranged by Carlon “Panman” Harewood, the Newtown-based steelband is one of seven scheduled to perform their Panorama tune before the four-man panel.

The other single pan bands include D’Original Woodbrook Modernaires, Brimblers, Scrunters Pan Groove, La Creole Pan Groove, Ice Water Pan Ensemble and Nuttin’ Big Pan Groove.
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Web Posted - Wednesday January 3, 2018
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Song for Panorama 2018
‘Lightning Flash’
sung by “Ultimate Rejects”
“Ultimate Rejects”

Global - Ultimate Rejects are back in play for the 2018 Panorama season. The defending Panorama champion Trinidad All Stars Steel Orchestra is but one opting for the group’s song Lightning Flash in this year’s competition arena. To date, Silver Stars, St. Margaret’s Superstars and Pan-Demonium steel orchestras will also try for musical glory with the song.”
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Web Posted -  September, 2017
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The Ugly, The Uglier and The Ugliest - New York Panorama 2017
tag words for 2017 NY Panorama: Embarrassing, Shameful, Thoughtless, Bandits

Emperor Star Wars

New York, USA - Well if you haven’t heard already, New York's 2017 Panorama Steel Orchestra competition was an epic failure for most. Unless you were the show’s promoters - who got away as bandits in the night - except it was a broad daylight-mugging with everyone watching. Calling the promoters “bandits” is really a description 'upgrade’ as they have been known as the original Evil Empire to the Brooklyn Steelband community for decades.

So in this regard, let’s cut the crap! And the fake news from those who are spreading alternative facts, about how great New York 2017 Panorama was. In reality it was jacked up.
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Early Trinidad and Tobago Steelbands Names Associated with Hollywood Movies
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Global - Within the historical context, a look at the impact of American movies on the naming of early steelbands of Trinidad and Tobago.
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