Woodbrook Playboyz heads the pack going into the Finals on Sunday ..
The sounds of steel will resonate at the Basketball Court, Princess Royal Park, Arima, on Sunday January 14, as twenty (20) Single Pan Bands vie for pan music supremacy in their category.
With the amended theme “Steel Crescendo… an Explosion of Music and Rivalry”, this year’s Panorama competition, the 55th edition, will be the culmination of eight days of preliminary judging at the participants’ pan yards across Trinidad & Tobago.
The finalists were announced on Friday morning at The Murchison Brown Auditorium, Knox Street, Port of Spain. Later that day, the bands’ representatives drew for playing position at Pan Trinbago’s Head Office.
Woodbrook Playboyz topped the Preliminary round with 278 points for the Michelle Huggins-Watt’s arrangement of “Ah Want It’ composed by Johnston King whilst defending champions Newtown Playboys Steel Ensemble amassed 270 points to tie with Pan Fanatics in the eighth position.
For Sunday’s competition, the adjudication panel will comprise Vorbin Cordice, Dr. Audley Timothy, Brendon Moore, Joslynne Sealey, Dexter Asson and Cuthbert Matthews. Bands will be judged on the basis of Arrangement (40), General Performance (40), Tone (10) and Rhythm (10) points.
The following is order of appearance with their scores:-
| 1 |
San Juan All Stars |
Iron Man |
269.0 |
| 2 |
Pan Fanatics |
Doh Back Back |
270.0 |
| 3 |
Pan Jammers |
Signal to Lara |
277.0 |
| 4 |
San Juan East Side Symphony |
Dis Party Is It |
267.0 |
| 5 |
UNI STARS |
Bun Dem |
270.0 |
| 6 |
SHADES IN STEEL |
Bounce |
269.0 |
| 7 |
Star Sapphire |
Black Man Feeling to Party |
267.0 |
| 8 |
Trinidad Nostalgic |
By All Means |
271.5 |
| 9 |
Curepe Polyphonics |
Leave Me Alone (Remix) |
267.0 |
| 10 |
EDINBURGH 500 STEEL ENSEMBLE |
Rock It |
269.0 |
| 11 |
Marsicans |
Party Time Again |
269.0 |
| 12 |
WOODBROOK PLAYBOYZ |
Ah Want It |
278.0 |
| 13 |
NEW TOWN PLAYBOYS STEEL SYMPHONY |
The Hammer |
270.0 |
| 14 |
Nu Pioneers Pan Groove |
Black Man Feeling to Party |
269.0 |
| 15 |
T&T FIRE SERVICE |
Du Du Yemi- Natasha |
277.0 |
| 16 |
LA FAMILLE UNITED |
Golo |
276.0 |
| 17 |
Chord Masters |
Stranger |
271.0 |
| 18 |
Metro Stars |
Rant and Rave |
272.0 |
| 19 |
Platinum |
Soca Baptist |
268.0 |
| 20 |
LA CREOLE PAN GROOVE |
Signal to Lara |
267.0 |
SEE COMPLETE SINGLE PAN PRELIMS RESULTS HERE