Single Pan Bands - 2025 Finals Results - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama - San Juan East Side Symphony snags Championship with arranger Duvone Stewart

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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.

San Juan East Side Symphony at the 2025 Single Pan Finals
2025 Single Pan Champions San Juan East Side Symphony perform on Final night -  image via @Iamlivingmylife YouTube screen grab

San Juan East Side Symphony’s score was 284, with Chord Masters’s haul of 276 points putting them in second place. Playing Swing Engine arranged by André White, the band had been going for three titles in a row, having taken the championship in 2023 and 2024. The script flipped as San Juan East Side Symphony occupied the second berth last season. The two bands from sister isle Tobago—Metro Stars Steel Orchestra and Hope Pan Groovers—took the third and fourth spots, respectively.

Chord Masters Steel Orchestra at the 2025 Single Pan Finals
Chord Masters Steel Orchestra at the 2025 Single Pan Finals - image via Chord Masters YouTube screen grab

Organized by Pan Trinbago, this season’s competition was stiffer as there were five more bands on final night, with no semi-finals held this time around. Those top twenty-five bands took their best performances to the stage in front of steelband music lovers at the Grand Stand, Queen’s Park Savannah in Port-of-Spain, on Saturday December 14 under sometimes rainy conditions.

The Finals results follow:


 RESULTS - 2025 Single Pan Bands FINALS

Placing/ Score Single Pan Band Tune Arranger
1st

284 pts
San Juan East Side Symphony (E) ‘The Guns’ Duvone Stewart
Duvone Stewart
2nd

276 pts
Chord Masters (E) ‘Swing Engine’ André White
André White
3rd

272 pts
Metro Stars Steel Orchestra (T) Disco Daddy Kersh Rramsey
Kersh Ramsey
4th

271 pts
Hope Pan Groovers (T) Long Time
Ojay Richards
5th

268 pts
New Age Trendsetters (S/C) This Melody Sweet Nicholas Joseph
& Myles Phillips
6th

265 pts
Trinidad & Tobago Fire Service Steel Orchestra (N) Fire Coming Down Terrance “BJ” Marcelle
Terrance “BJ” Marcelle
6th

265 pts
Platinum Steel Orchestra (N) ‘Hairy Bank’
Natasha Joseph
8th

264 pts
Belmont Hi-Larks (N) ‘Johnny’ Carlon Harewood
Carlon “Panman” Harewood
9th

262 pts
Trinidad Nostalgic Steel Orchestra (E) ‘Soca Train’ Amrit Samaroo
Amrit Samaroo
10th

261 pts
La Creole Pan Groove (N) The Bee’s Melody Dejean Cain - thumbnail - When Steel Talks
Dejean Cain
10th

261 pts
Nostrand Symphony (N) ‘Kaka Le Le’
Sheldon Peters 
10th

261 pts
Trinidad East Side Symphony (E) Shaking It Anslem “Moon” Campbell
Anslem “Moon” Campbell

&
MN Group
       
       
13th

260 pts
Marsicans Steel Orchestra (E) Black Man Feeling to Party Marlon White
Marlon White
13th

260 pts
Trinidad & Tobago Prison Service Steel Orchestra (E) ‘By All Means’ D’Radoes driller Nathanael “Crix” Flemming
Nathanael “Crix” Flemming
15th

259 pts
Pan Elites Steel Orchestra (E) Is Thunder David Yundi, steelpan arranger
David Yundi
16th

258 pts
Ice Water Pan Ensemble (N) ‘Teaser’ thumbnail of Jamal Gibbs
Jamal Gibbs
16th

258 pts
Trinidad & Tobago Police Service Steel Orchestra (N) ‘Ah Want It’ Kern Sumerville
Kern Sumerville
16th

258 pts
Uni Stars (N) ‘Carnival Baby’ Kareem Brown
Kareem Brown
19th

256 pts
East Phonics Steel Orchestra (E) ‘My House’ Kendall Bowen
19th

256 pts
La Romaine Super Vibes (S/C) Stranger Darren Sheppard
Darren Sheppard
19th

256 pts
San Juan All Stars Steel Orchestra (E) Inventor
Renaldo De Peiza
22nd

253 pts
Arima All Stars Steel Orchestra (E) ‘Tiny Winey’ Steelband Panorama arranger Shaquille Vincent
Shaquille Vincent
23rd

252 pts
Scrunter’s Pan Groove (N) ‘Big Belly Man’ Christian Forde & Janine Jones 
24th

250 pts
Gonzales Sheikers (N) ‘Ah Home’ Kwame Rodriguez
25th

241 pts
Pan Stereonettes (E) ‘Small Pin’ Michael “Bullet” Prudhomme 

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