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Panorama 2006 Finals
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Panorama 2006 Steelband Arrangers In Pictures |
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A Peculiar
Relationship!
SteelPan and The North Stands
PanOnTheNet.com, NY -
Mar 05, 2006
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad &
Tobago
- Ask any steelband-related person in Trinidad about the North Stand,
especially for the semi-finals in 2006,
and you will get anything from a rolling of the eyes to
outright profanity. 'Dem doh like pan!" or "dem doh know
nuttin about pan!" are guaranteed phrases you will hear in between
profanity-laced blood pressure-raising tirades from the passionate
pan players and managers as they address the presence of the over-
capacity crowd, seated, standing and rolling in aisles of the North
Stands of the Queen's Park Savannah during the semi finals panorama
music competitions.
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Boogsie Honors the Master Big Time with Win!
PanOnTheNet.com, NY - Feb
27, 2006
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago -
Noted arranger, steelpan artist extraordinaire and
composer, Len "Boogsie" Sharpe honored Mr. Bradley in a very deeply
personal and special manner. He and his steel orchestra won the 2006
panorama with his arrangement and their performance of "This One's For
U, Bradley", a song he wrote as a tribute to the master. Mr. Sharpe's
band Phase II Pan Groove took to the stage last night as the defending
champions of the National Panorama. |
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Ray Holman And
Starlift Make Music and
Social Statement
PanOnTheNet.com, NY - Feb
28, 2006
Trinidad - In what has to be one of
the truly bright and memorable moments of the 2006 panorama season, Ray
Holman, the consummate musician and respected panorama winning music
arranger, led an undermanned but rejuvenated and revamped Starlift into
the 2006 competition. The orchestra surprisingly took the third spot
behind the heavily favored Phase II Pan Groove and Trinidad All Stars. |
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Who Dropped The Ball?
TnT Panorama 2006
Dedicated To Clive Bradley?
PanOnTheNet.com, NY - Feb
28, 2006
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad &
Tobago
- Let's just say someone dropped the ball on this
one. It would all too easy to point fingers at Pan Trinbago, the events
organizers, on this one. They indeed would be a natural choice for the
whipping boy. Let's face it - the honoring of Clive Bradley at this
year's event was poor. Okay- they failed miserably. Trinidad failed on
this one. Obviously an opportunity to show the world how it honors its
own - was missed. And indeed a society is judged on how it honors and
remembers it heroes. But let's give Pan Trinbago credit for successfully
putting on this mammoth event every year. This is no small feat. |
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Tunapuna Panorama
Soars High
PanOnTheNet.com, NY - Feb
28, 2006
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad &
Tobago
- A little more than a week before the National Panorama finals in
Port-of-Spain, there was tempo and excitement aplenty. It was
centered a few miles east of 'the Big Yard' (aka the stage at the
Queen's Park Savannah.)
The
inaugural Panorama competition in Tunapuna was the focus for steel
orchestras based in the East. And though two of the bands
competing in the first annual Tunapuna panorama also made it to the
February 25th finals at the savannah, on this particular night, the
bands present were eyeing the top prize up for grabs - TT $30,000.00.
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The Younger Steelpan Stars
Take Command
at the Queen's Park Savannah
Junior National Panorama 2006
PanOnTheNet.com, NY - Feb
24, 2006
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad &
Tobago
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The National Junior Panorama got off to a bright and sunny start on
Sunday morning. Around 10:32, the event was opened with welcome
remarks and the playing of the national anthem by two young pannists. When Steel Talks was there to cover the event
in
pictures.
This year marks the first time that the Junior panorama was been broken into three
categories, and the youngest set - Under 13: Primary Orchestras, with
participants aged thirteen and under, were first up in the day's
competition. They were allowed a minimum of twenty-five and a
maximum of forty-five musicians.
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Small Steel
Orchestras Big
on Performance and Heart
PanOnTheNet.com, NY - Feb
24, 2006
San Fernando,
Trinidad & Tobago - The night for
National Panorama Finals for the Small Conventional steel
orchestras in Trinidad and Tobago was an exhibition of
excellence in pan. The competition was held just after the
finals for the single pan bands on the stage at Skinner Park in
south Trinidad on the Thursday evening preceding the Saturday
25th February finals for the medium and large conventional steel
orchestras to be held at the Queen's Park Savannah in
Port-of-Spain.
The small steelbands put no
less effort into their presentation and arrangements to produce
a solid show which got underway sometime after 11:00 PM after a
rain shower delayed proceedings by a few minutes. |
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