Single Pan Bands - Finals Results - Trinidad & Tobago Panorama 2017

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - In the first title up for grabs in a Panorama season which appeared at times uncertain to come off in the land of pan, Newtown Playboys Steel Symphony became Single Pan champions as they musically trounced the twenty other finalists in the competition.

With several ties along the way, the last year’s dual-champions—Marsicans and Trinidad East Side Symphony—were both unceremoniously dethroned and had to settle for seventh and eleventh places, respectively.

There was a change in proceedings leading up to the finals, which took place at the Arima Basketball Court in east Trinidad. There were no semi-finals, but instead a selection of the twenty-one bands coming out of sixty-seven which participated in the preliminaries.

A ‘newbie’ to the single pan band competitive line-up this year was the T&T (Trinidad & Tobago) Prison Service led musically by Terrence Sealey. Happy that they had qualified for the finals, they tied for seventeenth position overall. The champion band Newtown Playboys is also fairly ‘new,’ relatively speaking, having come on the single pan scene in 2015.

As is customary, the majority of participants in the Single Pan category opt for playing tunes from yesteryear, and 2017 was no different. Favorites like Get Something and Wave, This Melody Sweet, Nah Do Dat and more - were the musical order of the competition, and kept music lovers dancing.

With the Single Pan band component now in the history books, pan music lovers are eagerly looking forward to the conventional steel orchestras as they kick in to high gear, with the first round of preliminaries beginning January 30 in the Eastern, Tobago and South/Central regions.

Prize monies will be distributed at a later date.

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Following are the full results:

RESULTS - Single Pan Bands - Finals
Single Pan Bands Points RESULTS	Arrangers	Tunes of Choice	Tuners

Newtown Playboys Steel Symphony 292 pts. 1st	Carlon Harewood	Get Something and Wave	n/a
San Juan All Stars 289 pts. 2nd	Akiba “Panman” Joseph	Johnny	n/a
Woodbrook Playboyz 287 pts. 3rd	Michelle Huggins–Watts	Total Disorder	n/a
Pan Jammers 285 pts. 4th	Robert Tobitt	Different Me	n/a
T&T Defence Force 284 pts. 5th	Kion Robinson	Get Something and Wave	Jason Holder
Shades In Steel 283 pts. 6th	Danté Pantin	Showdown	n/a
La Creole Pan Groove 282 pts. 7th	Jamal “Meck Meck” Gibbs	This Melody Sweet	Desmond “Mappo” Richardson
Marsicans 282 pts. 7th	Marlon White	Thunder	n/a
D Original Woodbrook Modernaires 281 pts. 9th	Ankoina “Bobby” Paul	Jump on the Count of Four	n/a
T&T Fire Service 281 pts. 9th	Terrance “BJ” Marcelle	Ethel (1981)	Terrence Sheppard
Trinidad East Side Symphony 279.5 pts. 11th	Jerod Lett & Sheldon Harewood	Pan In Danger	n/a
Trinidad Nostalgic 279 pts. 12th	Amrit Samaroo	Flag Party	n/a
Brimblerz 278 pts. 13th	Kevin “Bones” Holder	War	n/a
Stardust 277 pts. 14th	Jason “Peanuts” Isaac & Simeon Superville	Tourist Elsie	Desmond “Mappo” Richardson & Bertram Kelman
La Famille United 276 pts. 15th	Triston Marcano	Pan By Storm	Sherwin Pierre
Uni Stars 276 pts. 15th	Kareem Brown	Magic Drum (2009)	Gabriel “Doyle” Robley
Nu-Pioneers Pan Groove 275 pts. 17th	Shaun Marcano & Simon Marcano	Drive It	n/a
T&T Prison Service 275 pts. 17th	Terrence Sealy	Nah Do Dat	n/a
Brazil RX4 272 pts. 19th	Akil Browne	Kaka Roach	n/a
Highlighters 272 pts. 19th	Jason Farrell	Fete	n/a
St. James Tripolians 271 pts. 21st	Dereck Boucaud	Fire Down Below	n/a

Single Pan Bands - Finals Results - Trinidad & Tobago Panorama 2017

Newtown Playboys Steel Symphony Wins Single Pan Title

RESULTS - Single Pan Bands - Finals