St.
George’s, Grenada, W.I.
- Grenada’s top steel orchestras
are gearing up this year for a major competition. Dubbed
“Pan Explosion 2010,” each steel
orchestra plays their “BOMB
TUNE” for a maximum of six minutes,
and with forty-five players at
most.
In addition, each band will
perform a special tribute song
to Grenada’s calypso great Elwyn McQuilkin, known as
“The
Wizard.” The tribute tune
is limited to five minutes.
The showcase of pure pan will be held on
“Pantastic
Saturday” - August 7, 2010, at
the National Stadium starting at
8:00 p.m. Angel
Harps Steel Orchestra will be defending their
‘Bomb Tune Title’ which they won
last year playing “August Is The
Time.” It will be
sweet pan music for so!
Nine steel orchestras in all,
including New Dimensions
(pictured), are
expected to grace the stage.
Pan Explosion 2010 is being held
on
Pantastic Saturday in lieu of the customary annual
National Panorama Championship,
due in part to a
then-existing impasse
between the Grenada Steel Band
Association and the Grenada
Carnival Committee (G.C.C.),
arising from non-payment of
prize monies from the 2009
senior and junior panorama
competitions and other carnival
season commitments. This
led to the decision of the
Association’s membership bands
not to participate in a 2010
Panorama. After the story
broke, financial obligations
reportedly began to be met,
prompting a type of ‘meeting
across the aisle’ resulting in Pantastic Saturday - the runway
being too short for full
Panorama preparations.
Steel Orchestras, Tunes
and Arrangers for ‘Pantastic
Saturday’ are as follows:-
Pan Explosion 2010: Grenada Steel Orchestras,
Arrangers, Bomb & Tribute Tunes
ORDER OF APPEARANCE
|
Playing Order |
Steel Orchestra |
BOMB TUNE / COMPOSER |
ARRANGER |
WIZARDS’ TRIBUTE TUNE |
1 |
Pan Ossia |
Hurricane / Inspector |
Robert Cadet |
Soca Feeling |
2 |
New Dimensions |
More Steelbands / Randy Isaac |
David “Peck” Edwards |
Soca Instruction |
3 |
Pan Lovers |
Hurricane / Inspector |
Ignatius Bayne |
Claudius |
4 |
Pan Wizards |
Shake Your Bumbaloom / Eggies |
Michael Robertson |
My Music |
5 |
Angel Harps |
Soca Feeling / Black Wizard |
James Clarkson |
Ragga Soca |
6 |
Westside Symphony |
Mistake / Ajamu |
Cas Alexis |
Tell Stone |
7 |
Commancheros |
Double Tenor Girl / Ajamu |
Andre Greenidge |
I.M.F. |
8 |
Rainbow City All Stars |
Sweetness / Ajamu |
Othneal St. Clair |
New World Order |
9 |
Grand Roy Pan Angels |
Bumsy / Val Adams |
Lincoln Samuel |
Soca Posse |
|