Pan in the 21st Century Steel Orchestras Finalists - 2008

WST World News Division

Trinidad - Tobago’s Katzenjammers topped the Preliminaries in the Conventional Band category with 263 points playing Diana Ross’ “When You Tell Me You Love Me” beating TCL Group Skiffle Bunch into second spot with 257 points.

Katzenjammers and eleven (11) other steel orchestras will move forward to the TSTT Pan in the 21st Century category finals on Friday 18th April 2008 at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain. Additionally twelve (12) Single Pan Bands will proceed to the Finals titled “The Art of Pan lll”.

Also making it to the final round is last year’s winner Silver Stars with their rendition of Michael Jackson’s “Bad”. The Tragerate Road band earned 250 points tying with Pan Elders.

This leg of the competition will see two each from the North and Tobago and four each from South/Central and East regions.

The Pan in the 21st Century finalists are as follows:

		Band	Selection	Composer	Arranger	Sung By
1.	263	Katzenjammers	When You Tell me You Love Me			Diana Ross
2.	257	TCL Skiffle Bunch	Feel So Good			Chuck Magioni
3.	255	Couva Joylanders	How Do You Keep The Music Playing			James Ingram
4.	254	CLICO Sforzata	Will You Be There			Michael Jackson
5.	253	Arima Angel Harps	Human Nature			Michael Jackson
6.	251	bmobile Our Boys	Just Don’t Care			John Legend
7.	250	Pan Elders	No One (remix)			Alicia Keys
8.	250	Silver Stars	Bad			Michael Jackson
9.	245	Harmonites	You Rise Me Up			Geoff Groban
9	245	Arima Golden Symphony	No One			Alicia Keys
11	243	San City Steel Orchestra	Reach			Gloria Estefan
12	240	Caribbean Airlines Invaders	My My My			Johnny Gill

Judges in this category are Louis Nurse, Junior ”Ibo” Joseph, Lennox London and Richard Pierre.

Draw for playing positions for both categories will take place on Wednesday 16^th April 2008 at NCC TV during 10 to 12 With Allyson.

Tickets go on sale at the advertised outlets and at the Savannah on the day of the show.

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