Global - While their senior compatriots flex their musical muscles in the second week of August, it will be the turn of Grenada’s junior steel pan players one week earlier, when steel orchestras fielding multitudes of the country’s younger steel pan musicians take the stage for their turn in the spotlight.
With eight junior bands scheduled to take part in the August 4 event, it is on track to be Grenada’s biggest junior national Panorama to date. Just around 400 young panists between the ages of six and nineteen years old will showcase their skills on steelpan instruments in this year’s junior competition.
Defending their title are members of Angel Harps Junior Steel Orchestra. They are six-time Junior Pan champs: 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2011. They will take the stage with seventy-four players, where the young ladies best their male counterparts in terms of presence - numbering 56 and 18, respectively.
Details for Junior Panorama 2012, below, provided courtesy David Seales of Angel Harps.
2012 Grenada Junior National Panorama Line-up |
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Band | Tune | Performer | Arranger | Tuner | Captain |
Angel Harps Junior Steel Orchestra | Outlaws | Japs |
Andre Skeete |
n/a | n/a |
Commancheros Junior Steel Orchestra |
Monday Night Mas | Ajamu |
n/a | n/a | n/a |
Florida All Stars Junior Steel Orchestra |
The Eating Better | Inspector | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Grand Roy Pan Angels |
Ms. Daisy | Peter Humphrey | n/a | n/a | n/a |
New Dimension Junior Steel Orchestra |
Power in the Soca | Inspector | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Pan Lovers Junior Steel Orchestra |
n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Pan Ossia Junior Steel Orchestra | Music Man | Ajamu | n/a | n/a | |
Rainbow City All Stars Junior Steel Orchestra | Soca Feeling | Black Wizard | n/a | n/a | n/a |
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