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"Pan Alive???"
Queen Macoomeh Cutting No Slack on Toronto's Steelband Panorama

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 Queen Macoomeh

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The ‘People’s Band” AfroPan tied for 2nd place in Pan Alive (Toronto) panorama

Toronto - Ah doh know where to start nuh. Every time ah siddong to write bout de 2007 Pan Alive competition ah get a headache. Ah doh care who vex, who please, ah sellin it as ah buy it, not a bloomin cent profit! 

Judges, oh gorme judges! Nah! Ah startin in all yuh skin firse because is all yuh who allow some real disrespeck to take place. Yuh din only let dong de players eh, yuh let dong de audience an de whole pan community. Yuh take yuh job slight. I was dere before de show start an ah leave after we empty out de corn soup man pot. So ah know ah see every ting. Show time is 7pm ent? Ah was hustlin to reach because ah get ketch in Toronto jumbie traffic. Ah reach after seven an de show din start yet. Pan Masters was de firse panside an accordin to what I see, de players was dere waitin. So what was de delay? Is nearly 8pm yuh start.

Den later Silhouettes had we waitin while players limin. When it was time fuh dem to play, de pans sittin dey an not one blue shirt in sight. Den ah see de arranger stroll forward lookin as doh is somebody else we waitin on. Deduck marks fuh late start! Dat is disrespeck to we an to you. De Jamestown Youth Steel Orchestra had a minute or two delay because one of de chirren tenor pan wire buss. Ah could understan dat. A man run quick an fix dat in a wink of a eye but big men in season pan sides had to spin arong doin gawd-knows-what while we waitin? Joke is joke but damn joke ain’t no joke.

But dat wasn de bes part.

Afropan turn reach. Well papa, dat one had me so confuse ah pack up meh equipment twice, unpack tree time, ah make 2 novena, ah went in de dutty latrine, ah eat a chinky pack-ah $5 dollar salt nuts, ah read de whole Letter to St. Paul from de Ephesians an still Afropan en start yet.

Dis is not a fete in here dis is madness!

When Salah Steelpan Academy done play, ah take meh coutrements an went to set up by Afropan to take snap. Ay ay. Ah see de pans scatter all over de place like a jumble sale. Ah say to meh macoomere ‘like Afropan have a new configuration girl? Look how de pans set up vikey vi!” De two of we stan up wid we mout open. Den ah see de players come an shift de whole orchestra over so to set up. Afropan was de las ban to play so dat cah be intermission. Is over twenty minutes Afropan had de audience waitin. We steupse, we blow whistle, we clap in protess. Why dey do we dat? An de judges stannin up like dey waitin on de las train to San Fernando. Disqualify de ban! Shims! It wasn right. Ah doh care if is de people ban, ah doh care if dey want to exante deyselves. Ah doh care if dem is de ole-est ban in Toronto. To besides if dem is all dat, dey should know better! What dey did was wrong!

An to add salt in de woun, dey din play dere bes. Ah doh even know what it is dey play in troot. Now I hear Afropan plenty times eh? I know dey know how to rock de casbah till people bawl. But dat night dey din play competition quality at all. Doh argue meh!

No man judges. Yuh do we a injustice. Dem decisions yuh give we dat night was like how Dasheen Bush win election twice - pure bobol. Even de audience bawl out “NO!” when dey hear de results. How you could tie tree whole bans fuh second place? Afropan who had we waitin til fo'day mornin an play loose, New Dimension who play a seet medley – but is dat allow? - an Pan Fantasy. How you get dat do?

As much as ah like Salah Steelpan Academy, dey was not de winner. De pans wasn blen togedda. Yuh en hear dat discord?  As much as ah like Afropan, dey shudda be disqualify or lorse plenty marks fuh unnecessary delay. Well papa in case yuh din know, Pan Fantasy was yuh winner eh? Dey play tight, dey had discipline, dey had presence, de chune arrange nice. I wudda give Silhouettes more marks fuh how dey play an take back some fuh delay, an ah wudda give Pan Masters more marks. Pan Masters sound better dis year dan ever before.

Ah not done talkin yet.

Copyright August 2007

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