Web Posted - Tuesday
January 14, 2025
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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 - Tuesday
December 31, 2024
When Steel Talks
Happy New Year 2025 - from When Steel Talks (WST)
Global - When Steel Talks
extends New Year’s greetings to all for 2025.
more
Web Posted - Tuesday
December 31, 2024
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TOBAGO Region Small Conventional Steel Orchestra
Preliminaries 2025 - Panyard Judging - Trinidad & Tobago
National Panorama
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
The final two nights of preliminary performances in the small
conventional steel orchestra category begin Sunday January 12 in
the sister isle of Tobago. Four bands are scheduled to perform
each night, with reigning Small steel orchestra champion New
East Side Dimension being the final band on Monday January 13.
see judging schedule
Web Posted - Tuesday
December 31, 2024
When Steel Talks
SOUTH/CENTRAL Region Small Conventional Steel Orchestra
Preliminaries 2025 - Panyard Judging - Trinidad & Tobago
National Panorama
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
More steel orchestras in the small conventional category will
grace the ‘stage’—that being their respective panyards—in the
presence of judges, as they vie for a spot in the January 18
semi-finals coming off at Victoria Square in Port-of-Spain.
....On Thursday January 9 Panosonic Connection is scheduled to
get things underway at 7:00 p.m. Swavic Steel Orchestra, Fusion
Steel, Motown Pan Theatre, Kalomo Kings and Silver Harps are
also advertised as being on the performance card.
see judging schedule
Web Posted - Monday
December 30, 2024
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EASTERN Region Small Conventional Steel Orchestra
Preliminaries 2025 - Panyard Judging - Trinidad & Tobago
National Panorama
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
The second leg of preliminary competition in the 2025 Trinidad &
Tobago National Panorama small conventional steel orchestra
category, features bands from the Eastern region. Over the
course of three nights—Monday January 6 through Wednesday
January 8—steelband music lovers will have their fill of the
sounds of steel.
see judging schedule
Web Posted - Monday
December 30, 2024
When Steel Talks
NORTH Region Small Conventional Steel Orchestra
Preliminaries 2025 - Panyard Judging - Trinidad & Tobago
National Panorama
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
Small steel orchestras begin their competition for the 2025
Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama, with bands around the
twin-island country performing in their respective preliminary
phases.
see judging schedule
Web Posted - Sunday
December 15, 2024
When Steel Talks
Single Pan Bands - 2025 Finals Results - Trinidad & Tobago National
Panorama - San Juan East Side Symphony snags Championship with arranger
Duvone Stewart
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
And the last shall be “first.” That’s the way things
apparently ‘played’ out for the finals of the 2025
season of the Single Pan band component of the annual
Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama. San Juan East Side
Symphony from the Eastern region, led by champion
arranger Duvone Stewart and playing last in the
competition at position twenty-five - trounced
twenty-four competitors, and dethroned title defenders
Chord Masters Steel Orchestra in the process.
see
results
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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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).
see more
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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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