Web Posted - Wednesday
January 29, 2025
Loop Trinidad &
Tobago News
10 Things to know when attending your first Pan Crawl

Panorama time
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It’s Panorama season in Trinidad and Tobago which is in the thick of Carnival
events and one of the best ways to show support for the national instrument, the
Steelpan, and to have a true Panyard experience is to attend a Pan Crawl. You may be wondering what’s a Pan Crawl? How do I get there? What’s the cost?
....A Pan Crawl is an organised Steelband cultural tour where
participants visit multiple Panyards across Trinidad and Tobago.
During these visits, attendees are allowed to experience live
Steelband performances, interact with players, and immerse
themselves in the vibrant Steelpan culture.
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Web Posted - Sunday
January 26, 2025
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Golden Hands arranger tells story through music

Golden Hands arranger Vanessa Alexandra
Headley-Brewster credits her late mother with
her deep love for the steelpan.
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
Golden Hands
arranger and panist
Vanessa Headley-Brewster
has vivid memories of her late mother,
Franka Hills-Headley,
coming home from classes at the UWI when she, Headley-Brewster
was just four years old. Her mother was dedicated to her craft
and would practice on an old, rusty pan.
....Golden Hands, which Headley-Brewster describes as a space that
empowers young people through music, has become a symbol of artistic
excellence in the community.
....Headley-Brewster grew up in San Fernando and says the rich cultural
heritage and the resilient spirit of the south’s people have shaped the
identity of Golden Hands.
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Web Posted - Tuesday
January 28, 2025
When Steel Talks
Order of Appearance for Junior Steel Orchestras Finals -
Trinidad and Tobago 2025 Junior/National Schools Panorama
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
The country’s talented youthful representation of the steelband art form
will shine through steel orchestras from twelve Primary and ten
Secondary schools, along with twelve ‘21 and Under’ bands as all
compete for titles in their respective categories...on Sunday February 2.
....The Primary and Secondary schools fall within the ambit of
the Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Education’s National Schools
Panorama. Pan Trinbago oversees the 21 and Under category...
See
order of appearance
Web Posted - Sunday
January 26, 2025
When Steel Talks
Results - Small Steel Orchestra - Finals - Trinidad &
Tobago National Panorama 2025 - Golden Hands and New East Side
Dimension Steel Orchestras Tie for First
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It was double the celebration for two champion bands in the
small steel orchestra category on final night. Doing the
Southland proud was Golden Hands Steel Orchestra with arranger
Vanessa Headley-Brewster, as the music organization returned to
the top after first becoming champions back in 2018. At the same
time New East Side Dimension retained its claim to the title in
2025, successfully defending its 2024 win with arranger Kersh
Ramsey.
see
full results
Web Posted - Tuesday
January 21, 2025
When Steel Talks
Finals: Order of Appearance for SMALL Steel Orchestras
- Trinidad and Tobago National Panorama 2025
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
And then there were fourteen; but first there were forty-four -
small conventional steel orchestras, that is. All in quest of
the musical grail - the small steel orchestra championship
trophy and accompanying prize purse. And after the results of
the preliminaries, and those of the semi-finals, the final
fourteen come together for the last time in their category of
the 2025 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama.
see
order of appearance
Web Posted - Sunday
January 19, 2025
When Steel Talks
Results - Small Steel Orchestra Semi-Finals - Trinidad &
Tobago National Panorama 2025
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
....After more than ten hours of competitive performances,
last of all from the defending champion New East Side Dimension,
the competition wrapped musically at 2:13 a.m. Results came
around 2:40 a.m. And the reigning champs remain the ones to beat
going into the finals, having scored 275 in the semis. As in the
preliminaries, there were multiple ties among the semi-finals
results. Southern Stars Steel Orchestra and Tobago Pan-Thers
rounded out the top three in a tie.
see
full results
Web Posted - Sunday
January 19, 2025
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Pan Trinbago backs coat of arms with steelpan, social-media
users knock design

The updated Coat of Arms as passed in the House
of Representatives
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
The updated national coat of arms that was recently passed in
the House of Representatives was officially unveiled on January
19 in a post on social media by the Ministry of Communications.
The National Emblems of Trinidad and Tobago (Regulation) (Amendment)
Bill, 2025, which allowed for the replacement of illustrations representing
ships led by explorer Christopher Columbus, with the national instrument,
the steelpan, was unanimously passed in the Lower House on January 13.
The coat of arms now features the image of a gold steelpan and pansticks
where Columbus’ ships once were.
....In an interview with Newsday on January 19,
Pan Trinbago
president
Beverley Ramsey-Moore said her organisation was extremely
proud.
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Web Posted - Thursday
January 16, 2025
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Silver Harps back in pan semis after 37 years

Highlanders Steel Orchestra
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
Thirty-one dynamic steelbands in the small conventional band
category
will compete on January 18, at Victoria Square, Port of
Spain, for one of 14 spots in the finals to be held on January
25 at Skinner Park, San Fernando.
Among them is the rejuvenated
Silver Harps Steel Orchestra, which will be
performing in the national semis for the first time in 37 years. This has
evoked euphoria among members.
The band last played in the Panorama competition in 1988.
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Web Posted -- Tuesday
January 14, 2025
When Steel Talks
Semi-Finals: Order of Appearance for SMALL Steel Orchestras
- Trinidad and Tobago National Panorama 2025
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
Saturday January 18 is the big day for thirty-one small steel
orchestras as they take to the semi-finals stage at Victoria
Square in Port-of-Spain. All intend to make the final cut,
having pushed through this far.
Arima Golden Symphony is first in the line-up which is expected
to start at 4:00 p.m. AST (Atlantic Standard Tine).
see
order of appearance
Web Posted - Tuesday
January 14, 2025
When Steel Talks
Results - Small Steel Orchestra Preliminaries - Trinidad &
Tobago National Panorama 2025
Global - The preliminary
phase for the Small steel orchestras featured forty-four bands
performing before a panel of judges in respective
venues/panyards. This is the first in the three conventional
steel orchestra categories of the 2025 Trinidad & Tobago
National Panorama.
....As is usually the case after ‘panyard judging’ with a large
number of steel orchestras, there were multiple two- and
three-way ties within the results, starting out with the top
position - number one - which went to three competitors,
including the defending champion New East Side Dimension.
see results
Web Posted - Saturday
January 4, 2025
When Steel Talks
Participants for Small Conventional Steel Orchestra
Competition - Trinidad and Tobago National Panorama 2025
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
....These are the participants for the 2025 season - in the
preliminary phase for Small conventional steel orchestras of the
Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama.
Meet the arrangers, tuners, captains, drillers, drummers,
leaders et al where available.
see
participants’ info
Web Posted
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Trinidad and Tobago 2025 Panorama and Carnival
Schedule of Events
Global
- Trinidad and Tobago
Panorama and Carnival Schedule of Events. Info on
the activities for the 2025 steelband music season:
dates, times, judging schedules, preliminaries,
semi-finals and finals competitions, event venues, and
more, as available.
see schedule
Web Posted
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2025 Trinidad and Tobago National Steelband Panorama Info - Complete
Global
- PanOnTheNet/ WhenSteelTalks is Panorama
Central! Complete information on the 2025 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!
see complete information
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When Steel Talks
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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Web Posted
When Steel Talks
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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