Web Posted - Tuesday November 28, 2023
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Single Pan Bands - Order of Appearance - Finals - (2023) 2024 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The final twenty Single Pan bands vying for the championship and first prize purse of TTD $275,000.00 (circa USD $40,758.00) in this category, will lay down their best performances yet on Sunday December 3. There, nineteen challengers will attempt to dethrone title defenders Chord Masters Steel Orchestra.
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Web Posted - Sunday November 26, 2023
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Single Pan Bands - (2023) 2024 Semi-finals Results - Trinidad and Tobago Panorama

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Title defender Chord Masters Steel Orchestra maintains its lead after its delivery of champion arranger André White’s ‘Doctor Cassandra,’ at the end of the ’level playing field’ that was the (2023) 2024 Single Pan semi-finals. The event was held at the Arima Velodrome in east Trinidad on Saturday November 25.

San Juan East Side Symphony (arranger Duvone Stewart), and a tie between Newtown Playboys Steel Symphony (arranger Carlon Harewood) and Nostrand Symphony (arranger Sheldon Peters) round out the top three positions going into the final competition. And so these top spots now feature three previous champions in this specific category, vying once more to retake the championship with their respective bands: White, Stewart and Harewood.
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Web Posted - Wednesday November 22, 2023
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Single Pan Bands - Order of Appearance - Semi-finals - (2023) 2024 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama

East Phonics Steel Orchestra Gets It All Going

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Thirty semi-finalists in the Single Pan category of the annual National Panorama organized by Pan Trinbago, will each take the stage in their effort to move on to the finals, and ultimately emerge triumphant...Twenty-nine hail from three regions of Trinidad–Northern, Eastern and South/Central, while the Tobago region is being represented by a single band in this phase - Metro Stars Steel Orchestra, led by Kersh Ramsey.
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Web Posted - Monday November 20, 2023
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Single Pan Bands - Complete (2023) 2024 Preliminaries Results - Trinidad and Tobago Panorama

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The (2023) 2024 Single Pan preliminaries unfolded from November 11 through 18, 2023. Bands faced the judges on various nights in their respective zones: Tobago, South/Central, Northern, and Eastern regions.

...the top thirty led by the defending champions in the category...move on to the National Single Pan Semi-Finals on Saturday November 25 at the Arima Velodrome in Arima...
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Web Posted - Thursday November 16, 2023
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Single Pan Bands - Preliminaries, South/Central Region - (2023) 2024 - Trinidad & Tobago Panorama

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It’s an early start for the bands in the fourth and final preliminary round of Single Pan performances at 5:00 p.m. AST (Atlantic Standard Time) on Saturday November 18. The six each have their shot at the November 25 semi-finals grouping when the panel of judges visits respective venues, taking in their performances.
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Web Posted - Monday November 13, 2023
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Single Pan Bands - Preliminaries, Eastern Region - (2023) 2024 - Trinidad & Tobago Panorama

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The third of four legs of preliminary Single Pan competition gets underway on Wednesday November 15 featuring bands in the Eastern region. Nineteen have registered in this category, each doing its best to move on to the November 25 semi-finals, in Pan Trinbago’s annual National Panorama Single Pan competition.
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Web Posted - Saturday November 11, 2023
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Single Pan Bands - Preliminaries, Northern Region - (2023) 2024 - Trinidad & Tobago Panorama

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The bands in the Northern region of Pan Trinbago’s annual National Panorama Single Pan competition - Preliminaries - perform in competition in respective venues, most in their panyards, from Sunday November 12 through Tuesday November 14, 2023.
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Web Posted - Thursday November 9, 2023
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Single Pan Bands - Preliminaries, Tobago Region - (2023) 2024 - Trinidad & Tobago Panorama

Tobago, W.I. - Sister isle Tobago is in the spotlight this weekend as the first of four regions for Pan Trinbago’s annual National Panorama Single Pan Preliminaries. The bands will perform in panyard settings.
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Trinidad and Tobago 2024 Panorama and Carnival Schedule of Events

Global - Trinidad and Tobago Panorama and Carnival Schedule of Events.  Info on the activities for the 2024 steelband music season: dates, times, judging schedules, preliminaries, semi-finals and finals competitions, event venues, and more, as available.
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2024 Trinidad and Tobago National Steelband Panorama Info - Complete

Global - PanOnTheNet/ WhenSteelTalks is Panorama Central! Complete information on the 2024 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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Complete Summary of Results of all Conventional Steel Orchestras - 2023 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - At a glance and on a single page, access the comprehensive summary of results for the Small, Medium and Large conventional steel orchestras that participated in their respective categories in the 2023 Panorama.

Follow the musical journey of respective bands through all three phases - compare side-by-side preliminaries, semi-finals and finals through data on band info, scores, tunes of choice and arrangers - on one page.
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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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