Web Posted - Sunday November 30, 2025
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Single Pan Bands - 2026 Finals Results - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama - Another Triumph for San Juan East Side Symphony Steel Orchestra, arranger Duvone Stewart

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The title defenders became the title holders once again, in the annual National Single Pan competition for the 2026 season of the Trinidad and Tobago Panorama. San Juan East Side Symphony triumphed for a second consecutive year when they brought to the stage arranger Duvone Stewart’s vision of ‘Jumbie.’ La Creole Pan Groove led musically by Dejean Cain, and Chord Masters Steel Orchestra returning with André White as arranger - rounded out the top three spots in this year’s musical rumble.
see results

Web Posted - Sunday November 23, 2025
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

TnTeague shines at PASIC50

Liam Teague, a professor of music and director of steelpan studies at Northern Illinois University, right, with son, Jaden, during a recent performance

DeKalb, Illinois, USA - The thunderous applause that echoed through the Indiana Convention Centre, in the US, on November 15 was more than just appreciation for a masterful performance; it was a celebration of legacy, family, and the boundless potential of the steelpan.

Liam Teague, the internationally renowned “Paganini of the steelpan,” shared the stage at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC50) with his 17-year-old son and rapidly ascending multi-instrumentalist Jaden Teague-Nuñez.
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Web Posted - Friday November 21, 2025
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Single Pan Bands - Order of Appearance - Finals - 2026 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The twenty-five Single Pan band finalists in the annual National Panorama competition now know the order in which they will take the stage come Saturday November 29, 2025, as twenty-four of them vie to dethrone the category’s defending champions, San Juan East Side Symphony and Duvone Stewart, arranger.

One of those is certainly Chord Masters, which copped both the 2022/2023 and 2023/2024 titles, as they mount a challenge to get back on top. The band returns to competition led once more by arranger André White.
see order of appearance

Web Posted - Friday November 21, 2025
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Single Pan Bands - 2026 Preliminaries Results - Trinidad & Tobago Panorama

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Chord Masters, Hope Pan Groovers, New Age Trendsetters and La Creole Pan Groove single pan bands topped the category in national preliminary competition, clinching the top three spots, with the last two bands tying for third place. Pan lovers can expect defending champs San Juan East Side Symphony to determinedly work their way up from their present sixth position when they next perform, in an attempt to keep their title and trophy.
see results

Web Posted - Wednesday November 19, 2025
College Heights Herald

WKU Steelband immerses students in ‘Sounds of the Caribbean’

Lane Bibb looks at his sheet music while he plays the steel drum during WKU’s Steelband concert at FAC on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025

Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA - Loud, energetic music filled the Ivan Wilson Fine Arts Center recital hall as audience members tossed beachballs and clapped to the beat of the cultural steel pan music of the Caribbean Wednesday.

The band, comprised of six different steelpan instruments, performed eight songs. In between each song, director and Professor of Percussion Mark Berry shared with the audience the specifications of each unique instrument and the cultural value of the music.
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Web Posted - Friday November 14, 2025
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Single Pan Bands - Preliminaries, Northern Region - 2026 - Trinidad & Tobago Panorama

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Single pan bands in the fourth and final region complete their preliminaries over the course of three nights in Pan Trinbago’s annual National Panorama Single Pan competition. Judges travel to venues in the North region to take in the performances of eighteen competitors from Tuesday November 18 through Thursday November 20, 2025.
see schedule

Web Posted - Friday November 14, 2025
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Single Pan Bands - Preliminaries, Tobago Region - 2026 - Trinidad & Tobago Panorama

Tobago, W.I. - Three single pan bands in the sister isle of Tobago have their turn in the preliminary round of Pan Trinbago’s annual National Panorama Single Pan competition, on Monday November 17, 2025.
see schedule

Web Posted - Thursday November 13, 2025
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Single Pan Bands - Preliminaries, South/Central Region - 2026 - Trinidad & Tobago Panorama

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Eight South/Central bands region bands are scheduled to perform for judges on Saturday and Sunday, November 15 and 16, 2025 in respective communities/panyards.
see schedule

Web Posted - Tuesday November 11, 2025
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Single Pan Bands - Preliminaries, Eastern Region - 2026 - Trinidad & Tobago Panorama

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Nineteen bands in the Eastern region of Pan Trinbago’s annual National Panorama Single Pan competition, are scheduled to participate in the Preliminaries in respective venues, from Wednesday November 12 through Friday November 14, 2025.
see schedule

Web Posted - Sunday November 9, 2025
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Launch of Panorama 2026 - Radicle Tube Live Stream

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Event organizer Pan Trinbago launches Trinidad and Tobago National Panorama 2026 under the theme: “Legacy: Ours to Love | Ours to Cherish.” Featured performers: Royal Stars Pan Symphony, Uni Stars, San Juan East Side, Exodus, Renegades and Trinidad All Stars steel orchestras, Tamboo Bamboo, Laventille Rhythm Section. Performances can be seen via Radicle Tube Live Stream.
see live stream

Web Posted - Friday November 7, 2025
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Trinidad and Tobago 2026 Panorama and Carnival Schedule of Events

Global - Trinidad and Tobago Panorama and Carnival Schedule of Events.  Info on the activities for the 2026 steelband music season: dates, times, judging schedules, preliminaries, semi-finals and finals competitions, event venues, and more, as available; data will be updated.
see schedule

Web Posted - August 2025
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New York 2025 Panorama Results - It’s Title #2 for Pan Evolution Steel Orchestra with Champion Arranger André White

New York, USA - Pan Evolution Steel Orchestra ably defended its 2024 championship by taking a consecutive title in the 2025 New York Panorama. Playing in the penultimate position of the eight competing steel orchestras - the band affectionately known as ‘PESO’ delivered a strong and decisive performance of André White’s champion arrangement of Too Own Way by “Voice.”
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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 index

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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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