Marabella,
Trinidad & Tobago, WI. -
Auditions
for the
ninth
edition of
Talent
Expression,
organised by
the Southern
Marines
Steelband
Foundation
began on
Saturday
October 3rd
2009. The
auditions
continue on
Sunday
October 4th,
and Saturday
October 10th
and conclude
on Sunday
October
11th.
All
auditions
begin at
1:00 p.m. at
the Southern
Marines Pan Palais
in Marabella,
South
Trinidad.
Registration
fee is
TT $40.00 and
all
performance
artistes are
required to
walk with
their demo
tapes.
Talent
Expression
has a prize
structure of
over TT $36,000
inclusive of
prizes for
preliminaries,
semi final
and grand
final. In
addition
there are
five special
prizes. The
first prize
is TT $5,000.
The
competition
continues on
Saturday
October 24th
when the
preliminaries
begin. The
semi final
takes place
on Saturday
7th November
and the
GRAND FINAL
takes place
on November
21st. All
performances
take place
at the
Southern
Marines Pan Palais.
Past winners
of the
Talent
Expression
competition
include:
Sammantha
Flores and
La Donna
Rouse
(dancers);
Keisha
Codrington,
Junior
“Wiggy”
Hinds and
Richarde
Bereaux (panists);
Mark Eastman
and Megan
Walrond
(vocalists)
and Lucy
Regis
(dramatic
performer).
From the
news desk of
Southern
Marines
Steelband
Foundation