Renegades Youth captures championship title in 21 & Under category

Mt. Hope Secondary, St. Margaret’s Boys’ A.C. triumph in 16 & Under, 13 & Under categories in Trinidad & Tobago 2009 Junior National Panorama

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Trinidad - With a score of 463 points bp Renegades Youth captured the 21 & Under category championship title in Trinidad & Tobago’s annual National Junior Panorama. Mt. Hope Secondary, with a score of 426.5 won the 16 & Under category. Top honors in the youngest category - 13 & Under - went to St. Margaret’s Boys’ A.C.

The day was filled with very, very impressive musical performances by the youth steel orchestras. Not even the periodic rain showers could dampen the exuberance, enthusiasm and energy that these talented young people brought to the stage today. Their performances were fabulous, and again accented the power of music and the steelpan music instrument. Indeed, the future of the instrument and artform is in very good hands.

The event was held in the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port-of-Spain - the capital of Trinidad and Tobago, and organized by the National Junior Panorama Committee (representatives of the Ministry of Education [Pan In The Classroom Unit]) Pan Trinbago, Inc., and the Pan In Schools Coordinating Council (PSCC).

This year’s event began at 9:00 a.m. and ended at 3:25 p.m. as twenty-one orchestras performed in the three age categories - 13 and under, 16 and under and 21 and under. The 2009 Junior Panorama event was dedicated to arranger and panist Seion Gomez (pictured), in recognition of his extraordinary global outreach on behalf of the steelpan artform and its musicians.

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