Trinidad &
Tobago
- There will be a
new champion in this year’s
bmobile Pan Down Memory Lane
competition. Newcomer
We Ting topped the
Preliminary round with 265
points. Just seven months
in existence, the
Woodbrook-based Single Pan Band
led by Vincent Benjamin vowed
the judges with Edwin Pouchet’s
arrangement of The Platters’
“Only You.”
Last year’s joint winners, the then-Angostura Woodbrook
Playboyz now Carib Woodbrook Playboyz, amassed 252 points while Pan Family will
compete in the Conventional Bands category.
Overall, thirty (30) steelbands faced the panel of judges
over a four-day period. Bands were required to play a non-calypso tune (not from
the 21st Century) in calypso tempo.
At the end of the exercise, twelve (12) bands in order of
merit will proceed to the Finals on Saturday 17 April at the Jean Pierre
Complex, Wrightson Road, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, at 8:00 p.m. More than two
hundred thousand dollars (TT $200,000.00) in cash prizes are at stake.
BAND |
SELECTION |
COMPOSER |
ARRANGER |
POINTS |
1 - We Ting |
Only You |
The Platters |
Edwin Pouchet |
265 |
2 - Pan Jammers |
Lately |
Stevie Wonder |
Herman Guppy |
264 |
3 - Woodbrook Modernaires |
Rock With You |
Michael Jackson |
Redon, Paul, Durham & Bartholomew |
263 |
3 - Scrunters Pan Groove |
Overjoyed |
Stevie Wonder |
Aaron Clarke |
263 |
5 - Marsicans |
Oh What A Night |
Frankie Valli |
Bertrand ‘Birch’ Kellman |
260 |
6 - Arima All Stars |
My Lady Soul |
The Temptations |
Terrence BJ Marcelle |
259 |
6 - Pan Revival |
Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough |
Michael Jackson |
Jimmi Phillips |
259 |
8 - Uni Stars |
Just The Way You Are |
Billy Joel |
Kareen Brown & Avis Bruce |
258 |
9 - Self Help Marines |
The Coffee Song |
Miles Hillard |
Elvin Stafford |
256 |
10 - Brazil RX4 |
Spain |
Chick Corea |
Auburn Wiltshire |
254 |
11 - Highlighters |
Rhythm of The Night |
Warren; El Debarge |
Kevin McLeod |
253 |
11 - New Age Trendsetters |
Born Too Late |
The Pony Tails |
Glenford Sobers |
253 |
Tickets for Pan Down Memory Lane are on sale at Cleve’s,
Crosby’s Record Shop - North & South, and Pan Trinbago’s office, Park Street,
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.
From the
News Desk of
Pan Trinbago
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