Single Pan Bands Panorama Preliminaries Kick Off November 4

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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - National Panorama 2020 Single Pan Preliminaries judging will commence with the eight bands in the Northern Region on Monday November 4, 2019. The exercise begins at 7:00 p.m. with Music Makers, Straker Village, Picton Road, Laventille. The other seven bands will face the adjudication panel on the following day, Tuesday November 5, at the same time, with the final eight on Wednesday November 6, at 7:00 p.m.

A total of fifty-one bands will vie for thirty places in the Semi Finals round in the Arima Velodrome on Sunday November 17. Starting time is 4:00 p.m.

Thursday November 7, is the designated start for the judging of the Eastern-based bands. Seventeen bands from San Juan to Sangre Grande will face the judges over a three-day period ending on Saturday 9 November.

South/Central Region bands will have their turn on Sunday November 10 and Monday November 11. A total of eight bands will go through their paces.

The Preliminaries come to a close with three bands in Tobago on Tuesday November 12 at 8:00 p.m. The competing bands are Royal Pan Illusion, Natural Mystic and Metro Stars.

The bands will play in the following order:

	NORTHERN REGION
	Monday November 4, 2019 at 7:00 p.m.

1.	Music Makers	19 Straker Village, Picton Road, Laventille
2.	Spree Simon Harmonics	Picton & Eastern Main Roads, Laventille
3.	Uni Stars	Old St. Joseph Road, Bertie Marshall Blvd., Success Village, Laventille
4.	D’Untouchables Pan Groove	205 Pioneer Drive, Sea Lots
5.	Sea Lots One Love	21A Beetham Highway, Sea Lots
6.	T&T Fire Service	Fire Service HQ, Wrightson Road
7.	Police Service	Old Central Police Station, Wrightson Road
8.	Woodbrook Playboyz Steel Orch.	6 Blackman Drive, Woodbrook (Lions Civic Centre)

	Tuesday November 5, 2019 at 7:00 p.m.

9.	Newtown Playboys Steel Symphony	Tragarete Road, Newtown, Woodbrook
10.	D’Original Woodbrook Modernaires	Corner French & Tragarete Road, Woodbrook
11.	Brimblers	Corner Warren & Gallus Streets, Woodbrook
12.	Scrunter’s Pan Groove	Jeffers Lane, St. James
13.	Nuttin’ Big Pan Groove	1 Roots Lane, Petit Valley
14.	Ice Water Pan Ensemble	1 Bagatelle Road, Diego Martin
15.	La Creole Pan Groove	La Puerta Avenue, Diego Martin


	Wednesday November 6, 2019 at 7:00 p.m.

16.	City Sun Valley	10 Duke Street, Port of Spain
17.	Harlem Syncopators	63 Quarry Street, East Dry River
18.	Nayal Hill Steel Orchestra	Belmont Community Centre, Belmont
19.	Nostrand Symphony	Norfolk Street, Belmont (Pandemonium Yard)
20.	Gonzales Sheikers	Basketball Court, Gonzales
21.	All Aces Symphony	Hutton Road, St. Ann’s
22.	World Wide Steel Orchestra	Hololo Mountain Road, Cascade
23.	La Famille United	48 Cascade Road, Cascade

Single Pan Steelbands are permitted to perform with 25 to 35 players. For the purpose of the competition, each participating Single Pan band may select and perform any calypso/soca or chutney providing that the selection has not been played by the said steelband at a previous Panorama competition. Allotted playing time is six (6) minutes.

This year’s preliminary round will take place at the competing bands’ pan yards/communities.

Theme is “Celebrate De Pan.”

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