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Port-of-Spain,
Trinidad, WI: “Panaide - The Benefit Concert” is an event in which
sponsored steelbands in Port-of-Spain and environs perform in a showcase with
the aim of raising funds to assist the unsponsored bands in that geographical
location.
Expected to receive a large
patronage, the Panaide Benefit Concert, organized by the newly-formed Panaide
Foundation, seeks to utilize the corporate advantage gained by the sponsored
bands. The proposed plan is for the concert to create and strengthen bonds
between the steelbands and the wider community while providing start-up capital
for the unsponsored bands for Carnival 2010.
With a showtime of 7:00 p.m., the
concert is scheduled to take place on Thursday December 17, 2009 at the panyard
of Neal and Massy Trinidad All Stars Steel Orchestra in Port-of-Spain.
Five of the Northern Region’s sponsored bands will perform selections from their
repertoires that reflect the yuletide season, each presenting an anticipated
forty-five minute musical showcase. The event also gives bands the
opportunity to spread Christmas cheer to their fellow steelbandsmen.
Steel orchestras confirmed to appear
on the evening’s playbill are: reigning National Junior Panorama champion BP
Renegades Youth Steel Orchestra; Angostura Woodbrook Playboyz; Petrotrin Phase
II Pan Groove; Courts Sound Specialists of Laventille; and reigning National
Panorama Champion (large) PCS Silver Stars Steel Orchestra.
Funds obtained from the undertaking
would be divided equally among all unsponsored bands of the region and
distributed at a Media Conference at which all contributing bands and sponsors
would be invited.
 President of the Panaide Foundation
Sean Nero (pictured) said: “Steelbands operating within the Northern
Region of Pan Trinbago are part of a region that is well known for its
camaraderie and event production skills. We have combined these and
developed an event that truly exemplifies the true spirit of this community.”
The Panaide Foundation is a coming
together of young panists ages 35 and younger from the bowels of the steelband
fraternity, who share the common vision that steelbandsmen ought to be
undertaking endeavours to assist each other.
The Panaide Foundation Directors are:
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Sean Nero – President
(Renegades)
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Dwayne Ifill – Vice-President
(Trinidad All Stars)
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Patrice Charles – Director
(Desperadoes)
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Roger Roach – Director
(Renegades)
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Keron Valentine –Director
(Woodbrook Playboyz)
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Shelly-Ann Hart – Director
(Trinidad All Stars)
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Candy Rodriguez – Director
(Unattached)
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Keol Newton – Director
(Renegades)
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