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		New York Steelband Panorama 2006 In Pictures		Pan News Digest

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The New York steelband panorama is easily one of the greatest if not the biggest music performance spectacles in North America, and is challenged and/or equaled in pageantry and drama only by the Marching Bands Drum and Bugle Corp competitions. However, unlike the latter, the New York steelbands have yet to receive comparable financial, media and corporate association, sponsorship and partnership. Indeed, the New York steelbands are for the most part community-based organizations, while major marching bands are normally associated with large universities or parochial organizations - which automatically solve many of the ills that plague the New York steelband community.