Panorama Preliminaries will now
start on January 12th 2008 in Tobago with the Single Pan
bands.
This and other changes in the dates and venues of
preliminary judging of Panorama 2K8 was revealed at a Media
Conference convened by Pan Trinbago on Monday.
For the next few days, Single Pan Bands will hold centre
stage as the judging continues with bands from the East on
Thursday 17th January and the North on Friday 18 January in
front of Victoria Square, Park Street, Port of Spain.
This new schedule replaces the panyard judging which was
scheduled to commence last night.
The major change in the Panorama line-up is the staging of
the National Preliminaries in the East and North zones
reverting to the Queen’s Park Savannah on Sunday 20th
January from 9:00 am.
South/Central conventional steelbands will face the
adjudication panel on Friday 18th January at Skinner Park,
San Fernando, while Tobago bands will be judged on Tuesday
22nd January at the Dwight Yorke Stadium, Tobago.
The National Semi Finals will now be held on Sunday 27th
January 2008 at the Queen’s Park Savannah with usual
“Savannah Party”. Starting time is 11:00 am.