2018 Junior Panorama Results - Repeat Triumphs in All Categories: Renegades Youth, St. Francois Girls’ & St. Margaret’s Boys’ Steel Orchestras Retain Titles - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Lather, rinse, repeat - a different year, different song, sometimes the same arranger, but energized and captivating presentations and performances of popular soca tracks. That about sums up the 2018 Junior National and Schools Panorama, featuring some of the brightest, young, up-and-coming steel orchestras in the country.  Venue and date were the Queen’s Park Savannah in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad on Sunday February 4.



In the Non-Schools/Elite grouping, champs Renegades Youth Steel Orchestra left a vivid music performance stamp yet again. They took the title for a fifth consecutive time, playing Sokah by popular young composer and performing artist Nailah Blackman.  And the music organization held on to their harmonious relationship with arranger Andrew Charles - who has been at the musical helm for each of their five championships - 2014 2015, 2016, 2017 and this year, 2018.

The best of the bands in the Primary Schools and Secondary Schools were the title-defenders in each respective category - St. Margaret’s Boys’ Anglican School Steel Orchestra, and St. Francois Girls’ College Steel Orchestra.

So - music lovers, proud parents and family members, schools’ communities, pan lovers, and the senior/adult steel orchestras who lend their equipment for practice and competition - can generally be counted on to be there in support of this national, junior steelband music endeavor year after year. According to the press release for the finals event, 2018 is its 43rd anniversary.

St. Margaret's Boys' Anglican School Steel OrchestraSt. Margaret’s Boys’ Anglican School Steel Orchestra

So where is the data protocol  - i.e.  the comprehensive packet of information on these bright and talented future stars?  Reflecting the full names of arrangers (with tunes of choice, and more - in each of the three categories - not just one or two); each school’s musical bio especially as it relates to the steelband art form, and academic history; the back story of the partnerships between respective communities and orchestras? Is this type of data a state secret?

Panorama Performance
Winning Renegades Youth Steel Orchestra performance
at the 2018 Junior National Panorama at the Queen’s Park Savannah

Who nixes an opportunity to showcase the brilliance of their youth in a positive light?  As “Voice” so elegantly chronicled for all time in his 2018 masterpiece Year For Love - What are they fighting for? In other words, where is the documentation and promotion of what the players/schools put forth year after year? Where are the searchable online archives of performances, where is the broadcasting of this annual competition?  Where is the “good” that these, the young people of Trinidad and Tobago are doing - the story of their musical deeds?

And - that leaves the most beleaguered and sad part of the entire event. For the finals, the young musicians and their orchestras are ready for “prime time.” They bring their “A” game to the stage.  But on a year-to-year basis - in the 21st century, - and in the so-called “home” of  Pan, these fine players cannot know for sure, if the finals will be broadcast on local TV, or even streamed online so friends, and proud family members who cannot make it to the Savannah, can point out their musical “Minnie Mes” as they smartly take the stage and play their hearts out.  Each year it is a “hit or miss” - scenario. And guess which one played out [or not] for 2018? We’ll simply leave a visual social media post we found on the issue as a damning indictment of everyone from the top down in the country’s government, and “the world governing body for pan” - as they say: “shit rolls down hill”..... 

Social media post: You know we are SICK when we can broadcast the Super Bowl but not Jr. Panorama (2018 Trinidad & Tobago National Steelband Panorama)

So - participants and supporters in general - take a bow.  The rest of the parties responsible for “presenting,” marketing, et al...... 

Full results below.

Click the following links for the results in the other categories, as they become available:

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2018 Junior Panorama Results
PRIMARY SCHOOLS
Placing/
Points
Band Selection Arranger
1st
278
St. Margaret’s Boys’ Anglican School Good Morning ????
2nd
272
Tacarigua Presbyterian Primary School (Tac Pres Treble Makers) Full Extreme ????
3rd
271
Guaico Presbyterian Primary Toco Band Kayle Noel
3rd
271
St. Mary’s Government Free Up Aquil Arrindell
Aquil Arrindell
5th
270
St. Paul’s Boys’ Anglican “Poom Poom” ????
6th
268
Point Fortin AC Starz Full Of Vibe ????
7th
263.5
Malabar RC “Hulk” ????
8th
262
Bien Venue Presbyterian School “Dis Feeling Nice” ????
9th
262
Fifth Company Rising Stars Buss Head Aquil Arrindell
Aquil Arrindell
10th
254
Rosary Boys RC Far From Finished ????
11th
247
Couva Anglican Good Morning ????
12th
244
Carenage Boys’ Government Primary School Full Extreme ????
       

SECONDARY SCHOOLS
Placing/
Points
Band Selection Arranger
1st
283
St. Francois Girls’ College Steel Orchestra Pan Break ????
2nd
268.5
Naparima Girls High & Naparima College “Fallin’” ????
3rd
264
St. Joseph’s Convent, St. Joseph Free Up Anders Kappel Øvre
Anders Kappel Øvre
4th
262
Providence Girls/QRC Steel Orchestra Far From Finished Anders Kappel Øvre
A. Eric Mc Allister
5th
260
South East Port-of-Spain Secondary School Steel Orchestra Buss Head ????
6th
255
Trinity College Moka Year For Love ????
7th
246
East Mucurapo Secondary Free Up ????
8th
244
Bishop Anstey & Trinity College East (B.A.T.C.E) Steel Orchestra “Kings & Queens” Aviel Scanterbury
Aviel Scanterbury
9th
234
Goodwood Secondary School Steel Orchestra This Melody Sweet ????
       

 Non-School (Elite) Class
Placing/
Points
Band Selection/
Performer
Arranger
1st
285
Renegades Youth Steel Orchestra “Sokah” Andrew Charles
2nd
274
Desperadoes Youth Steel Orchestra Buss Head Roseford Coutain
3rd
269
Trinidad All Stars Youth (ITF) Inside The Festival Kygel Benjamin
4th
268
Tropical Angel Harps Youth “Chutney Bacchanal” Curtis Jones
5th
265
St. Joseph’s Convent, San Fernando (SJC)/Blue Steel Combined Band From Space Jonathan Achaiba
6th
262
Success Stars Pan Sounds “Bonnie & Clyde” Brenton Joseph
7th
261
Invaders Youth Steel Orchestra Year For Love
Members of Invaders Youth Steel Orchestra
 
8th
256
Supernovas Youth “Sokah”
Tristan Brewington-Japsi
9th
253
St. Margaret’s Youth Steel Orchestra “Kings & Queens Shaquille Noel
10th
250
Starlift Juniors (ITF) Inside The Festival Roesha Edwards
11th
248
Skiffle Steel Youth Orchestra Good Morning Kevan Calliste
12th
226
Harmonites Juniors Hello Cylan Franklin
13th
220
Old Tech Youth Steel Orchestra Sweet Fuh Days ??? Joseph
14th
219
Laventille Road Police Youth Club Full Of Vibe Damien “Baddes” Nobles ???
15th
179
West Stars Youth/Diego North Combined Hello
Rodney Stowe
       
Panorama Performance
The road to victory - Renegades Youth Steel Orchestra performance
at the 2018 Junior National Panorama at the Queen’s Park Savannah
 

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