Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - This weekend fourteen steel orchestras will be vying for eight places in the finals of the ‘Orchestra’ class of this year’s edition of the National Steelband Music Festival ‘Pan is Beautiful XII’ series. The event - Orchestra Preliminaries - which runs over a two-day period (Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th October) will field seven steel orchestras on each day at the Queen’s Park Savannah in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. Tickets for each evening’s performances are reasonably priced at TT $100.00.
Each orchestra will play the Test Piece, Leroy Calliste’s “Mr. Pan Maker,” along with a Tune of Choice.
The line-up and bands’ tunes of choice are as follows:-
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For the purpose of this competition, ‘Orchestra’ shall mean any combination of panists/musicians playing steelpan instruments, with said combination containing no less than 35 players and not more than 50, inclusive of rhythm.
Each band’s total playing time shall not exceed eighteen (18) minutes. A four-person panel will comprise the adjudication panel. Over one million dollars is at stake in this leg of the competition with the winner taking home TT $250,000.00; results will be announced on the second day of the competition.
The Grand Finals in this category will be held at the Jean Pierre Complex, Wrightson Road Extension in Port-of-Spain, on Saturday November 16th. Showtime is 7:00 p.m.
From the News Desk of Pan Trinbago
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