La Horquetta Pan Groove and Arima Golden Symphony Steelband Panorama Champs Again

Trinidad and Tobago - Both La Horquetta Pan Groove and Arima Golden Symphony retained their respective pan titles in the Friday February 12 National Panorama Single Pans and Small Conventional Bands Finals held at the Lord Kitchener Stands, South Quay, Port-of-Spain.

For La Horquetta Pan Groove, it was their fifth consecutive win. Hailing from Arima, the Single Pan band scored 275 points and with it the first prize of TT $200,000 (USD $32,154.34) for their performance of Duvone Stewart’s (right) arrangement of “Fire Coming Down.”  In second spot was NLCB San Juan East Side Symphony with 270 points while third place went to United Sounds with 268 points.

In the Small Band category, it was indeed “Smooth Sailing,” for Arima Golden Symphony. Playing a Terrance “BJ” Marcelle arrangement of De Fosto’s 2010 tune, the band amassed 270 points and a cash prize of TT $400,000 - (USD $64,308).  Second place went to Golden Hands performing Vanessa Headley’s arrangement of Shadow’s classic “Dingolay” with 268.5, while Merrytones placed third with 268 points after delivering arranger Seion Gomez’s interpretation of “Pan War.”

Adjudicators for the Small Band category were Corinne Soo Ping Chow, Ezra Joseph, Hugh Borde, Ian Anthony, Kenrick Noel and Victor Prescod.

The results are as follows:-

Single Pan

  Small Conventional Bands

Music lovers at Friday evening’s event had the opportunity to win two (2) tickets to any North American destination courtesy Caribbean Airlines.