Web Posted - Wednesday February 15, 2023
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THA Pan Champs - 2023 Results

Tobago, W.I. - It has indeed been a very special Panorama season for arranger Kersh Ramsey. This past weekend the multi-talented musician captured the Trinidad and Tobago National Panorama title in the medium steel orchestra category. And about forty-eight hours later he executes a clean sweep of all three THA (Tobago House of Assembly) Pan Champs categories - large, small and single pan.
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Web Posted - Monday February 13, 2023
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian

Hundreds stranded in Tobago after Panorama final

Passengers at the ANR Robinson International Airport, Tobago, yesterday

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Hundreds of passengers were left stranded in Tobago yesterday, having been bumped off the early sailing of the APT James fast ferry after the Port Authority officials tried to accommodate steelband players who had participated in Sunday’s night’s National Panorama Medium Band competition.

Guardian Media understands that the problem originated due to the overselling of tickets for the APT James’ sailing and several others turning up without confirmed tickets.
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Web Posted - Monday February 13, 2023
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Panorama 2023 Results - Katzenjammers Steel Orchestra Takes Title with Arranger Kersh Ramsey as Medium Band Champions

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The Katzenjammers Steel Orchestra with winning arranger Kersh Ramsey led from the preliminaries, then made it clear coming out of the semi-finals, and finally cemented the title with a resounding performance on stage in the finals of the 2023 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama. The steel orchestra delivered a big band performance on home turf at the Dwight Yorke Stadium in sister isle Tobago.
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Web Posted - Sunday February 12, 2023
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Kirsten Michener lives her dream in Phase II panyard

Kirsten Michener playing with Len “Boogsie” Sharpe as she is instructed by D’Arcy King at the Hadco Phase II Pan Groove pan yard on Hamilton St, Port of Spain in August 2021.

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - When Kirsten Michener heard the steelpan being played for the first time in California, US, she immediately felt an affinity to the instrument. Now, 28 years later, she is living her dream, playing the tenor pan with Hadco Phase II Pan Groove for Panorama, and for her musical hero, Len “Boogsie” Sharpe.

....Michener played with Phase II in the semis on February 5 at the Queen’s Park Savannah.
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Web Posted - Sunday February 12, 2023
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Panorama 2023 Finals Live Stream - Medium Steel Orchestras

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The final twelve steel orchestras in the Medium category of the 2023 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama compete February 12 for the championship. The venue is the Dwight Yorke Stadium in sister isle Tobago. The show is expected to be broadcast and live streamed; showtime is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. AST (Atlantic Standard Time).
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Web Posted - Saturday February 11, 2023
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Live Stream - Coverage of the 2023 Calypso Fiesta Semi-Finals

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The Trinbago Unified Calypsonians’ Organisation (TUCO) presents the Calypso Fiesta semi-finals of the 2023 TUCO National Calypso Monarch Competition on February 11. 

The performances are broadcast live via TTT (Trinidad and Tobago Television) from the competition venue at the New Skinner Park in San Fernando, Trinidad.
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Web Posted - Friday February 10, 2023
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Panyard vibes, sacred spaces

Conversations with Archbishop J

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Recently, I did a panyard crawl. It was a very rich cultural experience. In conversation with the leadership of Renegades, I heard so many gripping stories.

Colin (Greaves) spoke about a five-year-old who came to learn the pan and was completely overwhelmed by the learning experience. Once the teaching was broken down in manageable bits, that child—a few weeks later—mastered the pan and the tune and was smiling from ear to ear while performing with the junior band.

For Colin, the panyard was a sacred space where children were protected.
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Web Posted - Thursday February 9, 2023
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Calypso Fiesta 2023 Semi-Finalists - Order of Appearance - Trinidad & Tobago Carnival

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The Trinbago Unified Calypsonians’ Organisation (TUCO) announced the forty Semi-Finalists for the TUCO National Calypso Monarch Competition 2023 on February 5. The draw for appearance positions was held February 9. 
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Web Posted - Thursday February 9, 2023
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Shell country chair on Invaders’ Panorama chances: We go ‘bun dem’

Shell Invaders panists perform Bun Dem at the band’s sponsor’s night, Queen’s Park Oval, Port of Spain on Wednesday

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - As Shell Invaders performed their Panorama tune for fans of all walks of life at the Queen’s Park Oval, Port of Spain, country chair and senior vice president of Shell TT, Eugene Okpere expressed every confidence in his band’s success.

“We go bun dem!” he exclaimed while at Invaders’ sponsor’s night on Wednesday.

Invaders placed fifth in the Panorama semi-finals with their rendition of Black Stalin’s Bun Dem...
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Web Posted - Tuesday February 7, 2023
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Finals: Order of Appearance for MEDIUM Steel Orchestras - Trinidad and Tobago National Panorama 2023

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The twelve medium steel orchestras which are finalists in the 2023 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama have drawn numbers for their order of appearance on February 12. The activity was held by event organizer Pan Trinbago for the competition which is being staged in sister isle Tobago.
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Web Posted - Tuesday February 7, 2023
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Pan’s strong comeback

Republic Bank Exodus, playing Tourist Leggo, makes merry at the Panorama semi-finals on Sunday at the Queen’s Park Savannah

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - If you want proof that steelpan is the lifeblood of our Carnival, look no further than Sunday’s triumphant return of the Panorama competition at the Queen’s Park Savannah.

The event, coupled with the return of the North Stand, was a reminder that some things in Carnival are best left unchanged. Indeed, while the festival is about creativity and innovation, it is also about tradition.

The healthy ticket receipts noted by Pan Trinbago president Beverley Ramsey-Moore – she estimated sales of over 5,000 for the North Stand alone, which had been closed in 2018 as a cost-cutting measure...
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Web Posted - Monday February 6, 2023
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Results - Large Conventional Steel Orchestra Semi-Finals - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama 2023

 

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - From the first notes of Fonclaire Steel Orchestra at 6:45 p.m., to Renegades Steel Orchestra’s final flourish at 12:22 a.m. the joyful sounds of pan filled the Savannah. After a hiatus of two Panorama seasons since 2021 due to COVID-19, the ‘Savannah Party,’ aka the 2023 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama semi-finals returned to ‘The Big Yard,’ the stage at the Queen’s Park Savannah. .
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Web Posted - Monday February 6, 2023
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Results - Medium Conventional Steel Orchestra Semi-Finals - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama 2023

 

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Elders Steel Orchestra was roaring out of the musical gates when they opened up at 1:16 p.m. on stage at the Queen’s Park Savannah in Port of Spain on the sunny Sunday afternoon of February 5. It was the semi-finals of the 2023 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama, and the band got the much-vaunted ‘Savannah Party,’ started with a bang from position one. 
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Web Posted - Thursday February 2, 2023
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Semi-Finals: Order of Appearance for LARGE Steel Orchestras - Trinidad and Tobago National Panorama 2023

 

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The line-up of large steel orchestras is set for the “Savannah Party” - the semi-finals competition of the 2023 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama, which comes off Sunday February 5 at the Queen’s Park Savannah in Port-of-Spain. Preceded by the fifteen semi-finalists in the medium category, fourteen large steel orchestras will take their turn in an effort to make the ‘final cut.’
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Web Posted - Thursday February 2, 2023
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Results - Large Steel Orchestra Preliminaries - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama 2023

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Fourteen out of seventeen large steel orchestras have advanced to the semi-finals of the 2023 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama. The results were made public by event organizer Pan Trinbago on Thursday February 2. Eleven-time champion Renegades Steel Orchestra gained the highest score coming out of the preliminary round.
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Web Posted - Thursday February 2, 2023
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Semi-Finals: Order of Appearance for MEDIUM Steel Orchestras - Trinidad and Tobago National Panorama 2023

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Medium steel orchestras which made it to the next round of competition in the Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama 2023 now know the order in which they will take the stage. The pulling of numbers for playing positions was facilitated by event organizer Pan Trinbago on February 2.
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Trinidad and Tobago 2023 Panorama and Carnival Schedule of Events

Global - Trinidad and Tobago Panorama and Carnival Schedule of Events.  Info on the activities for the 2023 steelband music season: dates, times, judging schedules, preliminaries, semi-finals and finals competitions, event venues, and more.
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2023 Trinidad and Tobago National Steelband Panorama Info - Complete

Global - PanOnTheNet/ WhenSteelTalks is Panorama Central! Complete information on the 2023 season of the Trinidad and Tobago National Panorama, and competitions:  Schedules, Orders of Appearance for preliminary, semi-final and final phases for large, medium and small conventional steel orchestras, and single pan bands; arrangers’ bios, bios of steel orchestras; full results, panyard addresses, history of previous Panoramas, and much more!
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Facebook got it wrong - Meta World and WST & SteelPan Are Friends Again

Facebook “Likes” sends PanOnTheNet Apology - “We got it wrong”

Metaverse - Facebook got it wrong. About three years ago without warning or reason all WST (When Steel Talks) steelpan-related accounts fell out of favor with the social media giant Facebook now known as Meta and its aligned consortiums (Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp). Because WST has all of our material hosted on our own shared servers, this ‘tag’ was not incurable or as problematic as it could have been. However, it was annoying to have people seeking critical steelpan music info diverted by Facebook AI (artificial intelligence).
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Technology Giant “Google” Celebrates the steelpan instrument via Google Doodle

Celebrating Steelpan - Illustration by artist Nicholas Huggins

Doodle of steelpan instrument ‘live’ on Google’s web site

Global - On Tuesday July 26, 2022 the steelpan instrument of Trinidad and Tobago is featured and celebrated on the site of technology giant “Google” via the famed Google ‘Doodle.’ The ‘Doodle’ is essentially an illustrative change made to the Google corporate logo “to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists, pioneers, and scientists” - and more. The doodle is then seen by users all around the world who access Google’s homepage on that day, and is available thereafter in the doodle archives.

....Trinidad and Tobago-based artist Nicholas Huggins is the creator of the illustrative artwork featured in the doodle, while Etienne Charles is the composer of the accompanying music performed by the legendary steelpan icon Len “Boogsie” Sharpe.
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