Tobago Region will officially kick off National
Panorama Preliminaries 2013. Four Single Pan Bands will face the panel of adjudicators on Thursday 10th January at the bands’ respective pan yards from 7:00 p.m. The order of appearance is as follows:- |
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Category | Band | Captain | Arranger | Tuner | Tune of Choice | Composer | Sung by |
Single | Pan Fanatics | Anthea Balfour | Gerard Balfour | Terrance Sheppard | Break Away | Leon Gray Austin Lyons |
Steve Sealy |
Single | Hope Pan Groovers | Tony “Pan Jumbie” Williams | Tony “Pan Jumbie” Williams |
Rodney Stowe; Lloyd Gay | Gold | Cecil Hume | M. Montano Rikki Jai K. Asche D. O’Connor |
Single | Get Down On It | Natalia Alexander | Rodney Stowe | Rodney Stowe | All Over | Fay Ann Lyons Timothy Watkins |
Fay Ann Lyons; Baron |
Single | Metro Stars | Steve Jack | Steve Jack | Mario Joseph | Vibes | K. Philmore; M. Loquan; D. Garcia | Destra |
The following Thursday
- January 17th, thirteen
(13) Conventional steel orchestras - seven (7) Small and six (6) Medium
Bands will go through their Preliminary paces - from 7:00 p.m. - for places in the National
Panorama Semi Finals carded for Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th
January at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain, at 12 noon.
Order of appearance at respective Pan yards is as follows: |
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Category | Band / Address | Captain | Arranger | Tuner | Tune of Choice | Composer | Sung by |
Small | Steel Sensations
/ Speyside |
Ashaki Frank | Rawle Titus | Keeping the Dream Alive | Rawle Titus | Coryse Wright | |
Small | New East Side Dimension
/ Winward Main Road, Belle Garden |
Holford Richards | Marlon White | Lorraine | Winston Henry | Explainer | |
Medium | Our Boys / Fort Street |
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Ryan John | Band From Space | Amrit Samaroo | Crazy | |
Small | Uptown Fascinators
/ Plymouth Road |
Ian Williams | Leeandro Noray | All Over | Fay Ann Lyons; Timothy Watkins | Fay Ann Lyons; Baron | |
Small | Central Symphony
/ Government House |
Krystine Daniel | Horace Arnold | Champions | Gerelle Forbes; Carlon Harewood | Chucky | |
Small | Dem Boys / Mason Hall |
Ryan John; Donald Edwards |
Pan in “A” Minor | Aldwyn Roberts | Kitchener | ||
Small | Tobago Pan-Thers
/ Sea View Trace, Golden Lane |
Brian Thomas | Gerard Balfour | Iron Man | Aldwyn Roberts | Kitchener | |
Medium | Katzenjammers
/ Black Rock |
Jemma Duke | Len “Boogsie” Sharpe | Keshorn- Javelin Champion | Edwin Pouchet; Alvin Daniell | Eunice Peters | |
Medium | West Side Symphony
/ Patience Hill |
Jewel Anderson | Kareem Brown | Pan Fireworks | Avis Bruce; Myron B |
Myron B | |
Medium | Steel Xplosion
/ Redemption Pan Theatre |
Shirlan Carrington |
Terrance “BJ” Marcelle | Tell Dem | Brian “Bean” Griffith | Steve Sealy; Black Stalin |
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Medium | Buccooneers / Chance Street, Buccoo |
Kirth McPherson | Seion Gomez | Gold | Cecil Hume | M. Montano Rikki Jai K. Asche D. O’Connor |
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Medium | Dixieland / Mt. Pleasant |
Keston Duke | Leon “Smooth” Edwards | Shock Attack | Edwin Pouchet; Alvin Daniell | Denyse Plummer | |
Small | Crown Cordaans
/ Canaan |
Lloyd Thornhill | Belbert Henry | We Come Out to Play | Winston Scarborough | D’Original DeFosto Himself | |
Redemption Sound Setters, the sole Large Conventional steel orchestra, will perform Tuesday 22nd January at their Pan theatre in Bethel. Their Panorama selection is “More Than an Oil Drum” composed by Don Clarke with lyrics by Gregory Ballantyne. The tune is arranged by Winston Gordon with Marie Toby as Leader. | |||||||
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