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Notting Hill Panorama 2005 Champions of Steel competition
The competitors' training are in full flight. The panyards are now buzzing
with enthusiasm. The seasonal panorama hum drum of excitement, anticipation
and preparation is in full swing. The race is not for the swiftest but for
those who work diligently and deliver the goods on the night.
08-10-05 From the News Desk of When Steel Talks - submitted by Robbie Joseph |
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Steelpan - Music - Media - History
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Yeah! Yeah! Melody!
Chords! Chorus! Verse! Bridges! Crescendos! Syncopating Rhythms and the
Circle of Fifths! Just play that sweet Pan music. 
Saturday the 27th of August 2005 will see Horniman’s Pleasance on
Kensal Road become the stage for the UK’s Champions of Steel competition.
Ten orchestras will be competing for the title with the evening being opened
by Nostalgia and Pan Necktar, the pan-around-the–neck and single pan
orchestras. A wealth of steelpan music on offer and it's all free. Make the
most of this opportunity as it may be the last year that panorama is a free
event. 
World-renowned steelpan arrangers in the likes of Anise ‘Halfers’ Hadeed –
Ebony, Rudy ‘Two Lef’ Smith – Glissando, Kyron Akal – Mangrove, Ken
‘Professor’ Philmore – Metronomes, Brent Holder - Stardust, Eustace
Benjamin – Southside Harmonics, Leroy Clarke – Real Steel and Paul Dowie of
the Croydon Steel Orchestra - will be ensuring that this competition is a
highly-contested event. Horniman’s Pleasance will certainly be a forum for
the 
Try catching up with these steel orchestras at their pan yards during their
practice sessions leading up to the competition. Take a taste of the local
cuisine on sale. It’s a ‘good lime’ as Trinidadians would say.