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Title: Panorama 2013
Post by: Bitter on January 10, 2013, 11:39:04 AM

Single pan preliminaries in spotlight this weekend
http://www.guardian.co.tt/carnival/2013-01-10/single-pan-preliminaries-spotlight-weekend

The National Single Pan Preliminaries take place this weekend, starting at Shaw Park, Tobago tonight. Tomorrow, the action shifts to The Paddock, Queen’s Park Savannah when 29 bands from the North Zone will face the judges.

Ten bands will participate in the South Zone competition which takes place at the Pleasantville Community Centre on Saturday and the preliminaries culminate on Sunday at Arima Velodrome with 20 bands from the East Zone.

A release from Pan Trinbago about the selection of tunes by the bands said the rule governing Music Selection states: “For the purpose of the competition, each participating steelband may select and perform any calypso, as long as the same selection has not been played by said steelband in a previous Panorama Competition.”

At the end of the Preliminaries, 32 Single Pan Bands from all the regions will move forward to the National Single Pan Bands and Small Conventional Bands semi-finals on January 26 at the Queen’s Park Savannah.

Table at left lists the order of appearance for the National Panorama Preliminaries for the North, South and East Regions.

National Pan Preliminaries

North Single Pan Bands
The Paddock, Queen’s Park Savannah
January 11 from 7pm
Admission: $60 (Bleacher seating)

# Bands Arranger Tune Sung By
1 Brimblers Earl Brooks Gold Maestro
2 W/brook Modernaires Douglas Redon Doh Try Dat Crazy
3 Sea Lots One Love Ian B. Baird Crapaud Revolution Scrunter
4 Stardust Steel Orc Jason Issac Wine on Something Superblue
5 La Famille United Natasha Joseph Your Body Wuking Kes the Band
6 Trinidad Freelancers Trevor Redhead Toco Band Kitchener
7 Nutting Big Pan Groove Steve Jammott Pan In Danger Merchant
8 La Creole Pan Groove S Ash & Y Popwell We Come Out to Play De Fosto
9 Scrunters Pan Groove Aaron Clarke By All Means M Montano & Xtatik
10 Untouchables P/Groove Keno Alexander Jericho Kitchener
11 Gonzales Sheikers Darren Sheppard Pan By Storm Ken Philmore/Designer
12 Harlem Syncopators Phillip J Stewart Party Time Bally
13 Hi Larks Brian B Griffith Bubble Iwer George
14 World Wide Noel M Skair This Feeling Nice Denyse Plummer
15 Nayal Hill Sch/Music Rory Aleong We Come Out to Play Defosto
16 Spree Simon Harmo Ricky James Plenty Loving Merchant
17 Belmont City Kids Roderick Toussaint Pan Jumbie Dr Will B
18 St James Tripolians Darryl Reid Say Say Baron
19 City Sun Valley Dane Gulston Jump & Breakaway Ronnie McIntosh
20 Nostrand Symphony Cary Codrington Ethel Superblue
21 Uni Stars Kareem Brown Kaka Roach Kitchener
22 Carib W/brook P/boyz Michelle H/Watts Bacchanal Time Superblue
23 Music Makers Kenneth Charles Darling Johnny King
24 Bar 22 Akiba Joseph Signal To Lara Superblue
25 T&T Defence Force Robert Tobitt Iron Man Kitchener
26 T&T Fire Services Terrence BJ Marcelle Kuch Gad Hai Babla & Kanchan
27 All Aces Nigel Diaz Iron Man Kitchener
28 Blanca 47 Gillian Tobias Mash It Up Onica Bostic
29 Ice Water Anthony Mc Alliste All Over Fayann & Baron

South/Central National Single Pan Preliminaries
Pleasantville Community Centre, San Fernando
January 12 from 7 pm
Admission: $60

# Band Arranger Tune Sung By
1 Shades In Steel Kenneth Guppy Suck Meh Soucouyant Crazy
2 Kings Row Retro Riddum David Noreiga Mastife Small Island Pride
3 Jah Roots The Band Sans Humanite David Bereau & Friends
4 La Romaine S/Vibes G Williams/H Henry Bubble Iwer George
5 Self Help Marines Jason Baptiste Jump & Wave Preacher
6 New Age T/setters G Sobers Jr Pan Tuners Stacy Sobers
7 Rio Claro Koskeros Kenny Pascall Shock Attack Denyse Plummer
8 Highlighters Sean Ramsey Bubble Iwer George
9 St Thomas S/ Stars Bruce Roberts Thunder Duke
10 Fyzabad 4th Dimen Richard Gittens Jab Jab Superblue

National Preliminaries Eastern Region
Arima Velodrome
January 13 from 3.00 pm
Admission: $60.00

# Band Arranger Tune of Choice Sung By
1 T’dad Nostalgic Amrit Samaroo Dust in Yuh Face David Rudder
2 United Sounds M Prudhomme KaKa Roach Kitchener
3 Brazil Rx4 E Raymond I Music Felix Caesar
4 Nu Pioneers Sean Marcano Fire in the Back Seat Swallow
5 S/Juan E/Side Symphony D Stewart Rant & Rave Chris “Tambu” Herbert
6 Pan Elites Anselm Campbell This Feeling Nice Denyse Plummer
7 Pan On The Move Sheldon Reyes This Melody Sweet Baron
8 Curepe P/phonics Kenneth P Clarke Party Time Bally
9 Star Sapphire Committee Memb Misbehave Len Sharpe
10 Chord Masters Akua Leith We Ain’t Going Home Chris “Tambu” Herbert
11 Tdad E/Side Symp Carlan Harewood Johnny Colleen Ella
12 Pan Jammers Nicholas Singh Dingolay Shadow
13 Marsicans Marlon White Dollar Wine Colin Lucas
14 Magic Notes Rebirth R Depoosingh Toco Band Kitchener
15 N/Eastern All Stars Melvin Thomas Call My Name Destra
16 S/Juan All Stars Brent Holder Big Belly Man Mac Fingal
17 Pan Stereonetts Mark Hosten Bubble Iwer George
18 Cocorite Rd P/Groovers S Peters/K Robinson This Party Is It Chris “Tambu” Herbert
19 Arima All Stars Kern Kiszer Unknown Band Superblue
20 East Phonics Robert Thompson Toco Band Kitchener

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: che on January 10, 2013, 04:52:39 PM

Just a little reminder of how it ended last year ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcEQeFmwXSw

and the celebration :wavetowel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX5xDhxlfEM

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: Bitter on January 11, 2013, 09:48:28 AM

DATE	TIME	EVENT	VENUE
Thu 10th Jan	7.00 p.m.	National Single Pan Prelims-Tobago	TBA
Fri 11th Jan	7.00 p.m.	National Single Pan Prelims-North	Paddock Queen's Park Savannah
Sat 12th Jan	7.00 p.m.	National Single Pan Prelims-South/Central	Pleasantville Community Grounds
Sun 13th Jan	3.00 p.m.	National Single Pan Prelims-East	Arima Velodrome
Thu 17th Jan	7.00 p.m.	National Small and Medium Prelims Tobago	TBA
Fri 18th Jan	7.00 p.m.	National Small and Medium Prelims East	Arima Velodrome
Sat 19th Jan	3.00 p.m.	National Small and Medium Prelims South/Central	Skinner Park San Fernando
Sun 20th Jan	3.00 p.m.	National Small and Medium Prelims North	Paddock Queen's Park Savannah
Mon 21st Jan	7.00 p.m.	Large Con Bands -Prelims Visit/Players Check	East, North, South/Central
Tue22nd Jan	7.00 p.m.	Large Con Bands - Prelims Visit/Players Check	Region - Tobago
Sat 26th Jan	12.00 p.m.	Single Pan & Small Conventional Semi-Finals	Queen's Park Savannah
Sun 27th Jan	12.00 p.m.	National Semi-Finals Medium & Large	Queen's Park Savannah
Sun 3rd Feb	9.00 a.m.	National Junior Panorama Finals	Queen's Park Savannah
Mon 4th Feb	7.00 p.m.	Arima Panorama	Arima Velodrome
Tue5th Feb	7.00 p.m.	Tobago House of Assembly (THA) Pan Champs Finals	TBA
Thu 7th Feb	6.00 p.m.	National Finals Small and Single Pan	Skinner Park San Fernando
Sat 9th Feb	7.00 p.m.	National Finals Medium and Large	Queen's Park Savannah
Mon 11th Feb		Pan On The Road	All Regions
Mon 11th Feb		Groovy Soca Mon Night	All Regions
Tue12th Feb		Pan On The Road	All Regions
Sat 16th Feb	8.00 p.m.	Champs of Steel Plus	Queen's Park Savannah

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: Bitter on January 15, 2013, 12:33:25 PM

National Panorama Single Pan Results 2013
Tuesday, 15 January 2013 12:53

San Juan East Side Symphony topped the National Panorama Single Pan Preliminaries with 266 points. The defending champions played a Duvone Stewart arrangement of Christopher “Tambu” Herbert’s “Rant & Rave” to earn the judges’ nod. Sixty three (63) Single Pan bands competed over a four-day period before the panel of judges comprising Roger Sardinha, Joanne Shortt, Ian Anthony and Damion Phillip.

Results:

Nos	Steelbands	Selection	Points
1	San Juan East Side Symphony	Rant & Rave	266
2	Trinidad East Side Symphony	Johnny	259
3	T&T Fire Services	Kuch Gadbad Hai	258
3	T & T Defence Force	Iron Man	258
5	Marsicans	Dollar Wine	256
5	Chord Masters	We Ain't Going Home	256
7	Pan Jammers	Dingolay	252
8	San Juan All Stars	Big Belly Man	251
8	Carib Woodbrook Playboyz Steel Orchestra	Baccanal Time	251
10	La Creole Pan Groove	We Come out to Play	249
11	Curepe Polyphonics	Party Time	248
11	Scrunters Pan Groove	By All Means	247
13	Fyzabad 4th Dimension	Wine On Something	246
14	All Aces	Iron Man	243
15	Arima All Stars	Unknown Band	243
15	Shades In Steel	Suck Meh Soucouyant	243
15	Uni Stars	Kaka Roach	242
18	Trinidad Nostalgic	Dust In Yuh Face	241
19	Belmont Hi Larks	Bubble	241
19	Highlighters	Bubble	241
21	Brimblers	Gold	239
22	Bar 22	Signal to Lara	238
22	Gonzales Sheikers	Pan By Storm	238
24	World Wide	This Feeling Nice	237
24	Nostrand Symphony	Ethel	237
24	Cocorite Road Pan Groovers	This Party Is It	237
24	Magic Notes Rebirth	Toco Band	237
24	Blanca 47	Mash It Up	237
29	City Sun Valley	Jump and Breakaway	236
30	Pan Stereonetts	Bubble	235
30	Nu Pioneers Pan Groove	Fire In The Backseat	235
32	Stardust Steel Orch.	Wine on something	233
32	Hope Pan Groovers	Gold	233
34	Ice Water Pan Ensemble	All Over	231
34	St. James Tripolians	Say Say	231
36	Star Sapphire	Misbehave	230
36	La Famille United Steel Orchestra	Your Body Wuking	230
38	Pan Elites	This Feeling Nice	229
39	Rio Claro Koskeros	Shock Attack	228
39	Self Help Marines	Jump and Wave	228
39	Harlem Syncopators	Party Time	228
42	East Phonics	Toco Band	227
43	Kings Row Retro Riddum	Mastife	226
43	Pan On The Move	This Melody Sweet	226
43	Nuttin Big Pan Groove	Pan In Danger	226
46	Brazil Rx 4	I Music	225
46	Metro Stars	Vibes	225
46	D' Orginal Woodbrook Modernaires	Don't Try That	225
49	New Age Trendsetters	Pan Tuners	223
49	Sea Lots One Love Steel Orchestra	Crapaud Revolution	223
51	United Sounds	KaKa Roach	221
52	Pan Fanatics	Break Away	219
53	St. Thomas Silver Stars	Thunder	217
53	Get Down On It	All Over	217
55	North Eastern All Stars	Call My Name	214
56	La Romaine Super Vibes	Bubble	210
57	Music Makers	Darling	209
58	Spree Simon Harmonics	Plenty Loving	203
59	Jah Roots	Sans Humanite	196
60	Free Lancers	Toco Band	193
61	Nayal Hill School Of Music	We Come out to Play	186
62	D' Untouchables	Jerico	154
63	Belmont City Kids International	Pan Jumbie	145

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: Deeks on January 15, 2013, 06:34:56 PM

whey all them lil does be during the year?

Title: 50 years of 'Panorama Finals' Competition [1963-2013]
Post by: Bitter on January 22, 2013, 08:49:57 AM

... or is it 51?

Good Youtube channel here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Trinidadculture?feature=watch

Happy 50th birthday, Panorama
The competition has proven its worth in pan development
Published: Saturday, February 18, 2012
DALTON NARINE
http://guardian.co.tt/carnival/2012-02-18/happy-50th-birthday-panorama

Happy Birthday, Panorama! What with the lineup of finalists in three categories tonight, the vibes cyar done. Truly golden, pan. This happening. Yet, as with most things pan, disagreements over the competition always cut through the burning of the drum. Down an allegorical road, one surely must have heard the term, “tempering the steel.” But toning down the instrument before it is tuned sets it up for the tuning. Which is unlike tempers flying over pan because there have always been multiple gospels of its nativity, just as there are disciples willing to risk a heart attack over the artform.

One can never not have an argument over an instrument that pioneers had beaten into shape so it could be given life. But a couple have already been floating around the competition of pan on its very birthday. Never argue over pan, so they say. Indeed, Pan Trinbago should begin a workshop on why we should never argue over the international instrument of our times. Unless it’s to set the record straight. And there’s the rub.

A case in point is the belief that only 49 editions of Panorama have been staged. Those who cite the 1979 Pan Boycott are wrong. Despite only a preliminary round being conducted that year, there’s absolutely no need to run a chord on the four pan in a pissy fit. It’s 50 years of Panorama. Get with the programme already. Given deeper importance is how Panorama got its name. Melvin Bryan, currently an advisor to Keith Diaz, president of Pan Trinbago, and who held a similar position under George Goddard, former president of the Steelband Association, cited his mentor’s book: “Ronald Williams said the CDC would give it a try to raise the $1,000 (for the 1963 first prize) and he was going to change the name of the competition to Steelbands’ Panorama. I agreed with him.”

But Desmond Chase, a retired banker from Sayreville, New Jersey, USA, said he was an executive member of an ad hoc committee charged with christening the inaugural night of pan with a name. Chase said that as he rode his tick-tick from his Belmont home to the meeting at the old Immigration Office on Wrightson Road, he lucked upon a movie poster outside Deluxe that trumpeted its new screen persona: In Cinemascope and Panorama (a wide-angle view or representation of a physical space). Chase said just before the meeting was called he told committee member Lloyd Pollonais of his discovery. That evening, Chase recalled, Panorama was the unanimous decision.

“Not many members had contributed ideas,” Chase acknowledged, “so I don’t know how Ronald Williams came up with Steelbands’ Panorama. The committee can vouch for my integrity.” Don Clarke, a tuner for City Syncopators, remembers how unusual bands prepared for the first Panorama in 1963. “They played their music like a Bomb,” Clarke said. “You couldn’t go to the pan yard to maco. They held back and sprang a surprise on the audience at the Savannah.”

Treatment of the arrangements, notwithstanding, Anthony Williams, Pan Am North Stars band leader and arranger of the winning song, Sparrow’s Dan is the Man, says his experience in the competition was bittersweet. “We were professionals,” he said, “and we shouldn’t have been judged like amateurs. Why judge professional musicians?” North Stars’ second win in a row, with Kitchener’s Mama Dis Is Mas, was testament that Panorama had become a repository for creativity. Diaz recounts changes in tuning, arranging, wheels, pan racks, canopies, new instruments such as the double tenor, four pan, rocket pan, six pan, 12-bass and triple guitar.

Seated with his back against a window that looks out to Victoria Square, Diaz reels off a spate of stats.
* Eighty two per cent of youths play pan
* Forty seven per cent are women
* Thirty-five arrangers are under 30 years old
* 8,500 players perform in the Panorama
* 167 registered steel bands in the country
* 81 steel bands in the 2012 semifinals, including 49 large bands.
* 48 percent younger crowd at the event this year.

“We see growth from 2011-12 that young people are paying to come. I want to thank all of them for carrying the flag of T&T culture. They have a good time. I don’t want to stop them. That’s why I opened the gate during [the contretemps at] the semifinals. The attraction of young people is because the music is done by young people, basically. So many young arrangers in the country penetrating the market of Panorama. We’ve given young composers a shot at changing old mentality into new vision.

“It’s why we decided in 2012 to be more businesslike. Increase the space and make more money.” Hence the Greens. For example, the North Greens is expected to become self-sufficient, Diaz says, considering that maximum attendance at the Grand Stand is 12,000 and 9,800 in the North Stand. The Greens may enhance the Panorama experience of 11,000 patrons. But attorney Martin Daly sees the area as the crux of the Panorama problem.

“Not enough paying space is created to accommodate all of the patrons who’d like to pay to be in the vicinity of the Panorama,” Daly says. “Not everybody wants to sit and watch it live. Pan Trinbago is making enough attempt to deal with the North Stand subculture. It needs that revenue. You want this group to stay interested in pan, even if there’s marginal interest. If it were up to me, I’ll let the Greens run as far as All Saints Church.”

To accommodate this subculture, Daly says patrons need to accept the status quo in the North Stand. “You work with what you have. Few traditions find the right balance to effect change.” Daly has seen signs that the steel band body is thinking for the betterment of pan. “It started with Patrick Arnold and continues with Diaz—that the organization has been making pan available more and more every year. They’ve removed the seasonal ceiling. Also, allowing adjudicators in the pan yards is a progressive step.

For his part, Diaz has scheduled “right after the Carnival” an in-depth planning session for 2013. A Yoruba who was made chief of Alara of Ilara in Nigeria several months ago, Diaz began performing in Panorama in 1967. Bands that were eager for his skills on the second pan included Silhouettes, San Juan All Stars, Trinidad All Stars, Merry Makers, Tripolians, Playboy, Modernaires, Starlift and Desperadoes.

To “upgrade” himself, Diaz studied communications at Cipriani Labour College for a year. “We send staff to training courses at The College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago (COSTAATT). I myself plan to continue pursuing studies at COSTAATT. The world is changing and you need to update yourself.” Do you think the beast is still in pan, a visitor wants to know.

“The beast still in this thing? That’s the nature of pan, the trials and tribulations of the panman. That’s how I became a steel band man who knows the belly of the steel band movement. You need to be strong. Hardcore. Tough decisions. The demands placed on a steel band man...The steel band movement is not easy. “I knew George Goddard. I watched him walk up and down fighting for Panorama, and I said one day that I’d be in his shoes. I served under past presidents of Pan Trinbago, such as Arnim Smith, Owen Serrette, Patrick Arnold. You have to know the pan world. You have to know the belly of the steel band man. Rudolph Charles was a steel band man.”

Staff bring documents for his authorization. It moves him to accentuate such regimen with a story about cross-checking himself while signing checks. Three silver bracelets jangle on his right hand as he sifts through piles of stuff on his desk. A huge gold ring with distinguishing marks that remind of an order or society, offers a glint of the metallic action figure in him. But his black-rimmed glasses and a Carnival documentary playing on a TV throws off the calibration.

“I learn that in the steel band,” he prefaces the story. “A man was given $800 and sent to buy stuff so the band could make a cook in the pan yard. But he didn’t buy chicken and rice. We asked him for the bill. He said ‘They don’t give bill in the market.’ So we forced him to write on a piece of paper how much he spent in the market, and that is a bill. He had to account for the $800. That’s why I’m careful whatever I’m signing.”

The moral of the story segues into the Holy Grail of the Panorama—Desperadoes’ semifinal score sheet. There’s not a scratch, not a blemish, he says. “See, it’s clean.” That such a revelation augurs hope to steel band men who hold a grouse also has a familiar ring about Pan Trinbago’s financial planning, including the next decade for Panorama.

Daniel Lambert, advisor to the president on finance, revealed his intention to brand Pan Trinbago as a world steel band body to facilitate Panorama competitions anywhere. Lambert spins it as the legal underpinnings in terms of a wholesale recognition of pan that originated in Trinidad and Tobago. “The definition of what is pan and its classification terms of the different instruments leads to a significant level of promotion,” Lambert says. “The establishment of Panorama associations in different countries, and guiding those associations to set up pan industries—in that perspective, you’ll have the right to be seen as the premier body.”

Lambert plans to develop formal programmes of training, tuning and playing that could lead to accreditation. “Who accredits those bodies in the US?” Pan Trinbago also plans to “address” the credibility of local accreditation. “They do a degree in music that includes pan,” says Lambert. “It would help in the profiling of Pan Trinbago, and by extension Trinidad and Tobago. Once it’s organized, the movement will be able to deal with stakeholders in terms of recognizing Pan Trinbago as the body of authority that your programme is good. Then, sanction should be originated through Pan Trinbago, and once we’re financially independent, Pan Trinbago will get the respect it deserves.”

For now, what’s on Bryan’s mind is the principal achievement of Panorama. “When I think about the 50th anniversary of Panorama, I realize how interesting it was to trace the development of the instrument in technique, players and arrangers. The ability to impart, says Bryan. “One must recognize that development was born out of competition. And such development over the years gives the lie to those who say there should be no competition. Because of competition, tuners have honed their skills, arrangers in their techniques, and the dexterity of the performers would have seen vast improvement.”

Diaz, however, has set his sights on the bigger picture looming in the next decade. An elaborate revolving stage that would bring pans up from a holding bay, thus cutting into set-up time. “It’d cost a lot of money. But who’ll foot the bill?” Changing the concept of Panorama on stage sounds like a log line for a whalish movie like Moby Dick. But it’s a steel band man’s dream. To futurize the Panorama. You bet arrangers and panists, and TV crews, too, are watching which way the wind blows.

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar tries her hand on the tenor pan during her visit to the Neal and Massy Trinidad All Stars pan yard on Thursday night. Photo: Shirley Bahadur

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: Bitter on January 22, 2013, 09:20:47 AM

Joylanders top medium bands
http://guardian.co.tt/carnival/2013-01-22/joylanders-top-medium-bands

Twenty small bands made it to the semifinals of the Panorama competition, to be held from noon on Saturday at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port-of-Spain. A total of 52 bands competed in this category over a four-day period, and semifinalists, by region, are: North (seven), East (six), South/ Central (five) and Tobago (two). Topping the placings in the Small Bands category is Laventille Serenaders, with 271 points.

The band played an Arddin Herbert arrangement of Hammer Time, a song composed by Kenneth Charles, with lyrics by Alvin Daniell and sung by Nicole Greaves. Serenaders is followed by Super Novas and Tamana Pioneers, in second and third places, with 270 and 268 points respectively. Both bands played Cecil Hume’s (Maestro) Gold.

The semifinalists in this category will perform together with the 33 semifinalists in the Single Pan bands. NGC Couva Joylanders placed first when the Medium Bands preliminary was held on Sunday night, also at the Savannah. The South/Central steel orchestra earned 260 points for its rendition of Band from Space, arranged by Kenneth “Panam” Clarke.

Defending champion Petrotrin Katzenjammers of Tobago amassed 252 points for its performance of Keshorn—Javelin Champion. The 14 semifinalists in this category will share the Queen’s Park Savannah stage with the 17 large conventional bands next Sunday.

Tickets for Sunday’s semifinals, dubbed “Savannah Party,” went on sale yesterday, Monday, at the ticket booth at the Queen’s Park Savannah, and at Atherly’s, Sutton Street, San Fernando. They are priced at $350 (North Stand and North Greens) and $300 (Grand Stand).

Panorama (small bands) semifinalists:
1. Laventille Serenaders
2. Super Novas
3. Tamana Pioneers
4. Arima Golden Symphony
4. Cocorite West Win
6. Codrington Pan Family
7 Golden Hands
8. Merrytones
9. Fascinators Pan Symphony
10. T&TEC New East Side Dimension
11. Tornadoes
12. Pandemonium
13. San City Steel Symphony
14. Old Tech
15. Simple Song
16. West Stars
17. New Generation
18. Musical Gems
18. Southern Marines
20. Tobago Pan-Thers

Panorama (Medium Bands) semifinalists:
1. NGC Couva Joylanders
2. Curepe Scherzando
3. Courts Sound Specialists of Laventille
4. NLCB Buccooneers
5. Pan Elders
5. Valley Harps
7. Petrotrin Katzenjammers
8. Carib Dixieland
8. Steel Xplosion
10. Arima Angel Harps
11. Power Stars
11. Melodians
13. Pamberi
14. Sangre Grande Cordettes

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: che on January 24, 2013, 01:26:44 PM

All stars Pan Yard performance: :wavetowel: :wavetowel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVdaxwKbfZ8&list=UUp2W6DSgyYWUCoog7uyCfIQ&index=2

And slow version : :notworthy: :notworthy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWJ4yOxgT6o&list=UUp2W6DSgyYWUCoog7uyCfIQ

Beat dat nah :challenge:

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: Bitter on January 25, 2013, 01:25:06 PM

National Panorama Medium and Large Semi- Finals 2013
Friday, 25 January 2013 16:45
http://www.pantrinbago.co.tt/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=805:national-panorama-medium-and-large-semis-2013&catid=98:panorama-2013

The Carnival now start as the semi finalists of the Medium and Large Conventional bands rage a musical battle for pan supremacy.

Fourteen (14) Medium and seventeen (17) Large Bands will compete on Sunday 27th January, at the “Big Yard”, Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain, from 12 noon. ( See playing order)

The play off is the highly anticipated National Panorama Semi Finals at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain from 12 noon.

Selections include current and traditional music with the majority of steelbands opting for the latter. These include Winston Scarborough’s “We Come Out to Play” (3) , Clive Telemaque’s “Bounce & Drive” (2), and Pouchet/Daniell’s “Shock Attack” (4).

Unlike the Large Bands, the elimination round for Medium Bands was held in four zones over a four-day period with a total of 25 bands.

Tobago is represented by Medium Band winner Petrotrin Katzenjammers, NLCB Buccooneers, Steel Xplosion, Carib Dixieland and RBC Royal Bank Redemption Sound Setters.

Large Band winner Neal & Massy Trinidad All Stars will face the judges in position 12 in their category. Their tune of choice is “Bounce & Drive” composed by band member Clive Telemaque with arrangement by Leon “Smooth” Edwards.

Tickets for the semi finals aka “Savannah Party” are on sale at the advertised outlets for North Stand and North Greens at $350. respectively and Grand Stand at $300.

2013 commemorates the 50th anniversary of Panorama and is in tribute to the late Bertie Marshall ORTT.

MEDIUM BANDS

1	Arima Angel Harps	We Come Out To Play (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j5o5bLVf8o)
2	Sangre Grande Cordettes	Champions (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFLzlbRTrB4)
3	Pan Elders	We Come Out To Play (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j5o5bLVf8o)
4	Steel Xplosion	Tell Dem (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHuKXU8Wm_4)
5	Power Stars	Shock Attack (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8rcOyyI06Y)
6	Courts Sound Specialists of Laventille	Long Time (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk6mXlwk_u8)
7	Carib Dixeland	Shock Attack (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8rcOyyI06Y)
8	Petrotrin Katzenjammers	Kershorn- Javelin Champion (http://www.panonthenet.com/tnt/2013/tunes/keshorn.htm)
9	NGC Couva Joylanders	Band From Space (http://whensteeltalks.ning.com/page/band-from-space)
10	Curepe Scherzando	We Come Out To Play (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j5o5bLVf8o)
11	Pamberi	Wettin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuYSjABxIqk)
12	Melodians	My Band (http://whensteeltalks.ning.com/page/my-band)
13	NLCB Buccooneers	Gold (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlEMJzDpXzo)
14	Valley Harps	More Love (http://www.panonthenet.com/tnt/2013/tunes/more-love.htm)

LARGE BANDS

1	Humming Bird Pan Groove	Haunting Melody
2	Bp Renegades	Shock Attack (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8rcOyyI06Y)
3	PCS Nitrogen Silver Stars	Shock Attack (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8rcOyyI06Y)
4	Solo Harmonites	More Love (http://www.panonthenet.com/tnt/2013/tunes/more-love.htm)
5	Petrotrin Siparia Deltones	Blackman Feeling To Party (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD6feyFD7s0)
6	CAL Invaders	Dat Is Lie (http://www.panonthenet.com/tnt/2013/tunes/dat-is-lie.htm)
7	NGC La Brea Nightingales	Bubble (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBf1JXGhUMo)
8	WITCO Desperadoes	Hammer Time (http://www.panonthenet.com/tnt/2013/tunes/hammer-time.htm)
9	RBC Redemption Sound Setters	More Than An Oil Drum (http://www.panonthenet.com/tnt/2013/tunes/more-than-an-oil-drum.htm)
10	T&TEC Tropical Angel Harps	No Getaway (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZGI_H-SouE)
11	Petrotrin Phase ll Pan Groove	More Love (http://www.panonthenet.com/tnt/2013/tunes/more-love.htm)
12	Neal & Massy T’dad All Stars	Bounce & Drive (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsePtBJvmiw)
13	Junior Sammy Skiffle	Sapna (The Dream) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB0YLVhmAjE)
14	Republic Bank Exodus	Gold (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlEMJzDpXzo)
15	Starlift	Bounce & Drive (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsePtBJvmiw)
16	Birdsong	The Last Word (http://whensteeltalks.ning.com/page/the-last-word)
17	NLCB Fonclaire	Addicted (http://www.panonthenet.com/tnt/2013/tunes/addicted.htm)

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: Bitter on January 26, 2013, 07:47:51 PM

Live audio stream in Vibe CT105
http://www.vibect105.co.tt/

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: AB.Trini on January 27, 2013, 12:15:22 PM

The theifing now start------ Is only one set ah North pan them judges does hear..... wha happen allyuh eh think south bans deserve ah fair shot?

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: che on January 27, 2013, 01:38:43 PM

Quote from: AB.Trini on January 27, 2013, 12:15:22 PM

The theifing now start------ Is only one set ah North pan them judges does hear..... wha happen allyuh eh think south bans deserve ah fair shot?

Man what rock you come out from? Five of the 17 Large bands are from south. :bs:

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: TdotTrini on January 27, 2013, 04:38:04 PM

The only way ah south band have a fair shot is if All Stars drop out. ;D

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: che on January 27, 2013, 07:09:25 PM

Quote from: TdotTrini on January 27, 2013, 04:38:04 PM

The only way ah south band have a fair shot is if All Stars drop out. ;D

Cosign ;D

P.S. I hope Weary doh sue me for copy right infringement :D

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: che on January 27, 2013, 08:04:03 PM

All Stars just put down a barn burner of a performance. :applause: :wavetowel: :wavetowel:

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: TdotTrini on January 27, 2013, 08:09:49 PM

Quote from: che on January 27, 2013, 08:04:03 PM

All Stars just put down a barn burner of a performance. :applause: :wavetowel: :wavetowel:

Yeah, Best I've heard so far. :applause:

Them fellas on the radio talking all kinda nonsense. They showing they bias for Phase II.

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: che on January 27, 2013, 08:15:01 PM

Quote from: TdotTrini on January 27, 2013, 08:09:49 PM

Quote from: che on January 27, 2013, 08:04:03 PM
All Stars just put down a barn burner of a performance. :applause: :wavetowel: :wavetowel:

Yeah, Best I've heard so far. :applause:

Them fellas on the radio talking all kinda nonsense. They showing they bias for Phase II.

Real armature commentators on Vibe. Man say he think All Stars won Panorama about 5 times. These jokers don't do research about the bands before they come on air. :bs:

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: TdotTrini on January 27, 2013, 08:34:43 PM

Quote from: che on January 27, 2013, 08:15:01 PM

Quote from: TdotTrini on January 27, 2013, 08:09:49 PM
Quote from: che on January 27, 2013, 08:04:03 PM
All Stars just put down a barn burner of a performance. :applause: :wavetowel: :wavetowel:

Yeah, Best I've heard so far. :applause:

Them fellas on the radio talking all kinda nonsense. They showing they bias for Phase II.

Real armature commentators on Vibe. Man say he think All Stars won Panorama about 5 times. These jokers don't do research about the bands before they come on air. :bs:

:rotfl: Yeah them commentators are a joke, my count is 9 titles. The only threat to All Stars this year will be Exodus.

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: che on January 27, 2013, 09:31:04 PM

Quote from: TdotTrini on January 27, 2013, 08:34:43 PM

Quote from: che on January 27, 2013, 08:15:01 PM
Quote from: TdotTrini on January 27, 2013, 08:09:49 PM
Quote from: che on January 27, 2013, 08:04:03 PM
All Stars just put down a barn burner of a performance. :applause: :wavetowel: :wavetowel:

Yeah, Best I've heard so far. :applause:

Them fellas on the radio talking all kinda nonsense. They showing they bias for Phase II.

Real armature commentators on Vibe. Man say he think All Stars won Panorama about 5 times. These jokers don't do research about the bands before they come on air. :bs:

:rotfl: Yeah them commentators are a joke, my count is 9 titles. The only threat to All Stars this year will be Exodus.

Like you an all ahead of your self. We have eight. ;D . Now one of the jokers asking the next one when is the final. :o :o

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: TdotTrini on January 27, 2013, 10:22:49 PM

After listening to all the bands in the semis tonight, All Stars win 9 titles.

Them idiots on CT105 didn't even bother to inform the listening public as to when to expect the results from the semis. It probably safe to say the had no clue.

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: che on January 27, 2013, 10:39:50 PM

Results: 10th 255points Sound Setters , 3 way tie for 7th 264. Fonclaire, Skiffle Bunch, Renegades ,
2 way tie for 5th 265 Silver Stars and Invaders , 4th 270 Despers , 3rd 271 All Stars >:(
2nd 272 Exodus and 1st 273 Phase II.

Race real close. But All Stars will prevail.

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: Bitter on January 27, 2013, 10:46:59 PM

Results:

MEDIUM BANDS

Position	Points	Band
1	271	NLCB Buccooneers
2	268	Courts Sound Specialists of Laventille
3	266	NGC Couva Joylanders
4	262	Pan Elders
5	258	Petrotrin Katzenjammers
6	255	Carib Dixeland
6	255	Curepe Scherzando
8	254	Valley Harps
9	249	Arima Angel Harps
10	248	Steel Xplosion
11	243	Sangre Grande Cordettes
12	242.5	Power Stars
13	24?	Melodians
13	24?	Pamberi

   LARGE BANDS

Position	Points	Band
1	273	Petrotrin Phase ll Pan Groove
2	272	Republic Bank Exodus
3	271	Neal & Massy T’dad All Stars
4	270	WITCO Desperadoes
5	265	CAL Invaders
5	265	PCS Nitrogen Silver Stars
7	264	Bp Renegades
7	364	Junior Sammy Skiffle
7	364	NLCB Fonclaire
10	255	RBC Redemption Sound Setters
11	254	T&TEC Tropical Angel Harps
12	253	Starlift
13	248	NGC La Brea Nightingales
14	245	Birdsong
14	245	Solo Harmonites
16	239	Petrotrin Siparia Deltones
17	219	Humming Bird Pan Groove

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: Bitter on January 28, 2013, 10:03:22 AM

PANTRINBAGO BLANKS CNMG

Last Updated on 28.01.2013
http://www.ctntworld.com/index.php/2011-12-27-04-09-23/3484-pan-trinbago-blanks-cnmg

If you were among several pan lovers unable to go the Queen's Park Savannah today and had hopes of catching the Panorama semis on television and radio, but noticed there was no live feed, it's because CNMG was denied the broadcast rights by Pan Trinbago.

President of Pan Trinbago, Keith Diaz says this was due to a breakdown in negotiations between the organization and the Caribbean New Media Group.

However, CNMG Chief Executive, Ken Ali explained that the company had been seeking to negotiate the broadcast rights since November last year, and was denied late in the game.

Mr. Ali says the company regrets not being able to bring the live broadcast, which has become a tradition of this state owned media entity.

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: RasIred on January 28, 2013, 01:16:16 PM

That is some real backward behaviour by Pan Trinbago! Guess they rather have nothing televised than get som change to broadcast. I could understand if this event would have television broadcasters tripping over themselves to get the rights......an u trying to hold off for a lucrative offer... While other event progressing, we digressing !! One back of bull shitters..........I wonder who make these decisions an who advise these people.

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: zuluwarrior on January 28, 2013, 04:15:14 PM

I was just listening to Mr Diaz on I95Fm and he said MR Ali is not speaking the truth, from what Mr diaz is saying Ali was just playing games with them, MS Demas tried to speak with Mr Ali but could not accept what he was offering .

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: zuluwarrior on January 31, 2013, 05:42:39 AM

Carnival broadcast rights go to CNMG
Published: Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Ken Ali, CNMG chairman

National Carnival Commission chairman Allison Demas last night said the Caribbean New Media Group (CNMG) will be broadcasting this year’s major Carnival events. In a statement, Demas said CNMG had been granted exclusive rights for TV broadcast of major Carnival events and non exclusive streaming rights, following negotiations facilitated by Minister of Arts and Multiculturalism Lincoln Douglas and Minister of Communications Jamal Mohammed.

Speaking about the ministers’ input in the negotiations, Demas said: “It’s great to have a Minister who supports and understands the needs of the creative community and a Minister of Communications who respects the social, cultural and economic importance of Carnival.”

Earlier in the day, Demas was hopeful of reaching a quick agreement, especially in the wake of an impasse between CNMG and Pan Trinbago which resulted in a blackout of Sunday’s national Panorama semifinal. “We are working towards a resolution of the issue regarding broadcast rights for Carnival 2013. It’s a balancing act between upholding the value of the Carnival product and providing public access via broadcast and Internet,” she said.

“It is important that state broadcasters respect the value of the creative product and that Carnival stakeholders appreciate the State’s investment in Carnival.” CNMG has traditionally televised Carnival events, but a breakdown in negotiations with Pan Trinbago had resulted in the state-owned media house being denied broadcast rights to the Panorama semis.

CNMG chairman Ken Ali had said they were keen to reach a resolution so they could provide coverage to the public. He said it would cost CNMG about $1 million to broadcast the main Carnival events, with little hope of commercial returns.

Carnival TV’s Paul Charles, in a brief telephone interview with the T&T Guardian, meanwhile said his company had obtained the rights to stream content for the Soca Monarch and Panorama finals on the Internet.

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: Bitter on February 01, 2013, 10:49:41 PM

The BEST thing Pantrinbago has ever done online! :applause: :applause:

http://www.reverbnation.com/pantrinbago

Enjoy!!!!

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: Observer on February 02, 2013, 03:08:35 PM

Quote from: Bitter on February 01, 2013, 10:49:41 PM

The BEST thing Pantrinbago has ever done online! :applause: :applause:

http://www.reverbnation.com/pantrinbago

Enjoy!!!!

Thanks, thanks thanks Bitter

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: Socapro on February 04, 2013, 02:29:17 AM

Listen to sweet music from Despers here nah man for their Semi-Finals performance!

Desperadoes Panorama 2013 Semi Finals Large Bands
http://www.youtube.com/v/jfCYL1c6Veo

Despers will be trouble in the Final this coming Saturday! :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: Bitter on February 06, 2013, 06:58:42 PM

Without much mention, Andy Narrell returned to panorama and arranged a really really nice tune - which of course did not make the finals. It is one of the few I return to as I give a good listen to the semi-finals.

I agree 100% with what he said in this interview about panorama though.
The first part was posted back in September by zuluwarrior, but the guardian never put the whole thing online...
http://www.socawarriors.net/forum/index.php?topic=58059.msg823754#msg823754

Back for 2013 Panorama, Narell Talks Pan - Lots of It
by DALTON NARINE
Originally published SEPTEMBER 2012.

http://www.guardian.co.tt/entertainment/2012-09-20/narell-talks-pan%E2%80%94lots-it

Andy Narell is back for Panorama 2013. The American-Trinidadian will be right at home among a fraternity of arrangers. And even narrowed in the small corner of elite composer-arrangers. It’s been 12 years since he last arranged in the competition. Competition? Well, Narell has a lot on his mind, and he doesn’t mind sharing thoughts, ideas - for that matter, all things Pan. So it hang, so we let it fall...

Dalton - When was your last Panorama as an arranger?

Narell - “I did it in 1999 and 2000. I also arranged for the New York Panorama in 2001 and 2002.”

Dalton - Did you have a ‘jones’ about the competition, an itch to get back in the fray?

Narell - “I missed participating in Panorama, but being in a music competition is not what motivates me. I like the challenges of trying to write a good piece, getting the players interested in the story I’m telling, and getting a good performance from the band. Hearing the music played by 100 people is a high. I love the whole ambiance around Panorama, the rehearsals every night, playing the music coming down the track. But no, I didn’t have a ‘jones’ about competing, and I have very mixed feelings about the whole idea. While I recognize the role of competition in the development of the steel band, how it replaced the fighting and elevated the level of performance, I also think it’s become distorted, having an effect of dumbing down the music, encouraging everyone to do the same thing over and over, and winning has become more important than creating music that moves people.”

Dalton - When did you begin to feel the urge, and what was the trigger?

Narell - “I’ve wanted to be here all along. Nobody called me. The trigger for coming back was that Dennis Phillip and birdsong have been making a serious effort to advance the cause of music education in Trinidad, and with people like Raf Robertson teaching, they are changing the culture of the band. I’ve been close with Raf for a long time and when he asked me if I wanted to get involved I jumped at the opportunity. I was here in June for their concert at NAPA (National Academy for the Performing Arts), and I worked with birdsong and with their Academy steel band. We hit it off, and when they asked me if I wanted to work with them for Panorama 2013 I thought about it for a couple of seconds to make sure I was hearing correctly and told them yes.”

Dalton - What was it like at the meeting - regarding expectations, arranging fee, composition of the band, et al?

Narell - “They’re letting me do my own composition, whatever I want to write, and we’re expecting a big turnout of international players, which should make the band significantly larger and more diverse. These 12 years since I last arranged for Panorama I’ve been composing steel band music and teaching pretty much nonstop, so there are a lot of players out there who have had experience playing my music. Needless to say, our expectations are high in terms of the level of musical performance we’re after, and of the quality of the experience everyone is going to have. I don’t know what to expect from the judges, but of course our goal is to be there playing in the finals. Our conversation about my arranging fee lasted a minute or so. Money is not going to be an issue that gets in the way.”

Dalton - Was there much give and take?

Narell - “I was made to understand very quickly that we share many of the same goals about music and education. We’re having an ongoing conversation about what we want to accomplish and it’s been as smooth as I could hope for. After so many years of feeling like nobody wants to work with me, I was surprised to find such a good fit. I feel like I’m in the right place at the right time.”

Dalton - What did you concede?

Narell - “No concessions so far. I’m just trying to compose the best music I can. The piece feels real good to me, like a story that’s revealing itself bit by bit, and I feel that I have their full support with nobody telling me to make sure it sounds like everybody else’s idea of what is or isn’t Panorama music. My criteria for success is that we all work hard, do our best, believe in the music, play it with passion, have fun, and hopefully earn a place in the finals.”

Dalton - How do you plan to market the song (or melody)?

Narell - “I’ll record a version that can be played on the radio, at the Savannah, etc. I don’t have much of a marketing plan. If you recall, in 1999 I recorded an instrumental version of Coffee Street that got hardly any radio play during the Carnival season. Ash Wednesday it started getting airplay, and it’s still getting played. A lot of people in Trinidad know and like the song, and the steel band version I recorded on ‘The Passage’ has been listened to a lot. The following year I wrote Appreciation, and Black Stalin wrote words and recorded it.”

Dalton - What will be your timetable?

Narell - “I have a bit of a scheduling problem because I need to be in France the first two weeks of January to do a project with my quintet and the Bordeaux Symphony Orchestra - by the way, the conductor of the orchestra is Kwame Ryan, a Trini - so I’ll be in Trinidad in December to teach the music, then back in mid-January to finish the job. I plan to record it sometime in October/November.”

Dalton - What is your creative process?

Narell - “Don’t hold your breath waiting to hear any Panorama clichés. I mostly compose at the piano, but I do a lot of computer sequencing and work out some of my ideas by playing pan along with those sequences. Once I get into the piece I can become pretty obsessed with it, and it incubates over time. I keep tinkering and revising until it feels right, then take it to the pan yard and show it to the band and keep revising as I go. Calypsociation in Paris has been my laboratory for the past 10 years. Sometimes when I’m making a lot of changes the players accuse me of experimenting on humans.”

Dalton - Do you consider the rules of Panorama restrictive?

Narell - “When I first arranged for Panorama in 1999 I asked to see the rules, which I read carefully. It said that you had to wait for the green light to start, and that we would be penalized for playing longer than 10 minutes. That was it. There weren’t any rules about the music itself. Throughout the Panorama season I got an earful about the ‘unwritten rules.’ I felt it was my responsibility to break as many of those as possible, as long as it served the music. To whatever degree Panorama has become rigid and formulaic, I feel that those of us who are capable of composing original sounding music have to do our part to challenge the ‘system.’ This might be a good time to mention Ray Holman, who year after year has steadfastly refused to compromise his beautiful music to those so-called rules.”

Dalton - What’s your ideal complement of players?

Narell - “Size matters. Big bands have an advantage in the sound production department. My ideal complement is to be big enough to play before or after the really big bands and not sound like a small band. I’m hoping that with birdsong’s players and a big international contingent that we’ll be there.”

Dalton - Your ideal layout of instruments?

Narell - “Normally, I lean towards a balanced stereo sound, but there’s a lot of room for experimentation in terms of where you put the different voices of the band in the left/right spectrum. Then there’s the whole question of depth. If you take a line of tenors, for instance, and move them forward or backward by one row, it totally changes the sound of the band. I’ll have a better idea when the piece is finished and arranged, and I can listen to what we actually sound like. Then I’ll start thinking about the setup.”

Dalton - Years ago, you intimated to me your predilection for the quads. How do you use the four pans?

Narell - “I hadn’t used quads at all until I came to play with Phase II in the mid-80s. And I was impressed with what “Boogsie” [Sharpe] was doing with them. I got a couple of sets and used them on my records. For practical reasons I stopped. I do a lot of overdubbing. Apart from ‘The Passage,’ which was performed by the players at Calypsociation, I play all the pans on my records, including ‘Tatoom,’ which is an entire record of an overdubbed 25-piece steel band. I did that whole album with tenors, double seconds, triple guitars, tenor bass, and six-bass. You’ll notice the absence of double tenors, quads, and four-cellos. There’s enough redundancy in a steel band that you don’t really need to use all the different voices that are available. birdsong has significant numbers of double guitars, triple guitars, and four-cellos, so I’ll be arranging the music with that in mind. They have about four sets of quads. I’ll probably add them to one of those other three sections. I like having a lot of low end - bass and guitar/cello. You can get a powerful sound without all those high frequencies that wear out your hearing. Powerful sounding music is also about dynamics and emotional range. If you play loud all the time you don’t really have any power to draw on for the moments in the piece that need it.”

Dalton - What have you been up to since your last Panorama? What has been your experience with Relator?

Narell - “I’ve kept working on composing steel band music the whole time, and feel that I keep learning and developing my craft. I also spend a lot of time on the road teaching and directing that music at universities, and I had a great experience rehearsing and performing it with Trinidad All Stars at the jazz festival here in Trinidad.

“Working with Relator has been one of the most enjoyable and educational experiences of my life. He is a walking encyclopedia of classic calypso music, a great composer and musician. We started with the idea of me putting together a small jazz group to play with him, and we recorded an album and played some concerts. When the WDR Big Band in Köln [Germany] asked me to do a concert of my music for steel band plus their horn section (14 horns), I played Lucas Schmid (the band’s director) a recording of Relator singing, and proposed that we do part of the concert with him, backed by the super big band (25-piece steel band and 14 horns), and that we feature Lord Kitchener’s music. He listened for a couple of minutes and was sold.”

Dalton - How will your success over the years come to bear on your approach to the Panorama?

Narell - “That’s a loaded question. I don’t think about my ‘success’ when I’m working on a project, but I do have confidence in my musical ideas that comes from working hard and having gained the respect of my fellow musicians, the listening public, and people like yourself who write about it. I would say that my success at getting to the finals both times I wrote music for Panorama has encouraged me to stick with what I feel is right musically, and continue to ignore all the people who tell me the music is cool but this is Panorama so you have to do this and that, put all those things into the piece that supposedly will impress the judges.”

Dalton - If you were involved in a reconstruction of Panorama - from an artistic and marketing mindset, what would be your direction?

Narell - “I think it’s pretty clear that people are getting bored with the music at Panorama. And once the show is over and the winners are announced, hardly anyone is listening to the vast majority of the music being played there. And it isn’t just Panorama that’s suffering. Steel bands go out on tour and play the same repertoire they were playing 40 or 50 years ago, when they were trying to demonstrate the versatility of the pan to an audience full of squares. There’s a lack of vision and a lack of respect for the listening public.

“I can think of countless times I’ve been liming with my Trini friends and everybody’s railing against the monotony of Panorama, inevitably pointing fingers and blaming somebody - the judges, Pan Trinbago, the government. Change comes from within, and we need to change the way we think about the music. Music is not a sport. It’s art. It’s our culture. Along with art and literature - and I would include calypso in that category - it defines who we are.

“There are a lot of things we could be doing structurally that could point Panorama in a different direction, but I doubt that any of them will happen as long as it’s being run by an executive committee composed of representatives from the big bands. They are so entrenched, defending their position and advantage, everybody jockeying for a piece of the financial pie. You know it, I know it, and they know it. It’s the elephant in the room. And I have a fundamental disagreement with the notion that giving more and more prize money to the winner will raise the level of the music.

“Rather than give you a top down solution, as if I were in charge, I’ll give you some what if’s. What if we took all that prize money and spread it out, giving multiple prizes for performance, originality, composition, innovation? What if we distributed money to steel bands to start music schools in their pan yards, create music libraries where young people can listen to music from all over the world, watch live and instructional videos, have access to computers, basic recording equipment, theory books, be taught by musicians who can teach young players reading, harmony, scale theory, rhythms, musical styles from all over the world, arranging, how to use recording and publishing software like Protools, Finale, and Sibelius? What if we got a whole new set of judges and gave them a different set of criteria, told them to deduct points for repeating tired Panorama clichés, for banging on the pans, for making a mockery of conducting? What if we put some energy into promoting Panorama as a world-class music festival? Try ‘googling’ “Trinidad Panorama” - there’s no website. There isn’t even a Facebook page. That’s ridiculous.”

Dalton - Can you envision a global competition? If not, why not?

Narell - “I don’t think that the rest of the world necessarily shares Trinidad’s enthusiasm for music competition. Rather than trying to promote competition all over the world, maybe we can gain more by continuing to try to attract players to come to Trinidad and play with the bands, learn about steel band music. Keep building relationships with steel bands all over the world, and with universities where students from abroad could get college credit for playing in a Trinidad steel band while kids from T&T could get better access to scholarships to study abroad. That’s one of the things Dennis Phillip is working towards at birdsong.”

Dalton - Does it bother you, the claim by many a Trinidadian that “Pan is we ting,” despite the works of yours and others with the instrument’s global outreach?

Narell - “First of all, it’s not all about me and what I’m doing for Pan, OK? But thanks for the recognition. I think it’s a good thing that Trinis consider Pan ‘we ting’ and show it some love and appreciation. I suppose what you mean here is that there are people here who feel that something is being taken away from them when people from other parts of the world embrace it too, and that’s unfortunate, because it’s short-sighted. I think the internationalization of Pan is an opportunity, not a loss. I’m arranging for the 2013 Panorama, but I think it would be a pretty big stretch to say that foreigners are coming down and taking away work from Trinis. On the other hand, quite a few Trinidadian arrangers have done well teaching pan in other parts of the world - Liam Teague, Ray Holman, Rudy Smith, “Boogsie” Sharpe, Robert Greenidge, for example.

“Here’s a twist for you, if you really want to create some controversy with this interview. Ellie Mannette emigrated to the USA in 1967 and his work is largely unknown in Trinidad, except by people who remember what he accomplished before he left. But there is an incomparable wealth of knowledge about tuning Pan in his head, hands, and heart. He’s been doing it nonstop for 70 years, since the beginning of Pan as a melodic instrument, and in my view he is in a class by himself. Now he has given us the greatest gift possible - he has passed on that knowledge to a new generation of tuners. Now, your ‘we ting’ protectionists will say that he gave away something that belongs to ‘we’ but I for one am grateful, and I work with those younger guys. What’s more, some of them are coming to Trinidad and they’re training young Trini tuners at Gill’s Pan Shop, bringing Ellie’s knowledge back to Trinidad and passing it on, raising the standard of pans being produced right here in the home of pan. And you know what’s even more galling to the protectionists - these guys are white. How crazy is that? White guys showing Trinis how to tune Pan? “Crazy” should have put that one into ‘In Time to Come,’ along with ‘America will have a Black President.’”

Dalton - What are your favourite foods and hangouts in Trinidad and Tobago?

Narell - “I love Trini cuisine in general, and by way of flashing my credentials this would be a good time to say thank you to Miss Merle in Belmont for all those delicious dinners she’s fed me when David Rudder calls her and tells her ‘Ah comin’ one time and ah bringin’ Andy too.’ St. James roti across the street from Smokey and Bunty’s, corn soup anywhere, but the one by Mas Camp is special ’cause it was still going AFTER I finished rehearsing with All Stars for the jazz festival project. Doubles by the Savannah, bake and shark at Maracas Bay, though that’s more like a ritual of coming back home. Too greasy to eat all the time. I really like the restaurants like Veni Mangé, Solimar, The Verandah. Hope that doesn’t make me sound like a snob.

“This conversation is making me hungry...”

Dalton - Well, then, much appreciation and good luck.

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: zuluwarrior on February 07, 2013, 06:30:50 AM

Pointless rights wrangle

Published:

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Impossibly—one would have thought—a negotiations impasse arose last week, just a fortnight before Carnival, that was so daunting that it led to a failure to televise or professionally record the first major steelband competitions of the 2013 season.

This is a matter that speaks not only to the unsatisfactory state of rights negotiations regarding the festival, but also to a fundamental misunderstanding of the challenges facing this country’s most visible tourism product. It won’t matter how great a Carnival we think we have if it isn’t recorded, broadcast and made available for viewing in the wider world.

Even the most optimistic fan of T&T Carnival must acknowledge that there’s no shortage of competition among global destinations for tourists seeking an entertaining event.

Last week’s debacle found state-owned media house CNMG and Pan Trinbago, after months of negotiations and discussion, unable to arrive at an accommodation that at least allowed recording to be done over a weekend that found the nation’s best players performing at the mecca of the steelband, the Queen’s Park Savannah.

A singular event is now lost forever. It was a moment that should leave all parties involved in the matter shamed by their inability to rise to the responsibility that they all shared to record, for posterity, performances by musicians the country claims to respect and love but is willing to abandon for the sake of pointless argument.

Pan Trinbago is not alone in this scrappy situation. TUCO and the NCBA have also been unable to successfully negotiate with CNMG, and the matter has now embroiled the NCC and the Ministry of Arts and Multiculturalism.

CNMG has taken the position that it is expected to make a profit and cannot offer more for the rights to broadcast Carnival than it has put on the table, a sum reported to be $600,000 to be split among the three interest groups. The state media group has also claimed that broadcast costs will add another million to its bill and there is insufficient commercial return on the broadcast.

That position calls into question the current role of CNMG as a state enterprise and the constantly shifting imperatives it must answer, which pull it between providing important services and making money. That’s a matter for the Government to address and decide on.

It’s hardly fair to other competing media houses for the state media enterprise to have special conditions for CNMG’s operations, but it also isn’t fair to the company constantly to have the goalposts of its financial mission shifted by political whimsy.

Carnival’s stakeholders, who have been quite keen to squeeze every potential source of media revenue, must also understand that growing the festival will demand they invest more to improve and encourage more advantaged and critically important access to local media houses and documentarians keen to amplify the country’s creative output.

TUCO has made some small moves in this direction by working to broaden access to Calypso Fiesta, but the current situation remains needlessly disorganised and vulgar and an embarrassment to T&T

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: Observer on February 07, 2013, 11:42:09 AM

Say no more

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSGI3NIaEAQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSGI3NIaEAQ)

http://www.youtube.com/v/RSGI3NIaEAQ

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: Bitter on February 10, 2013, 01:20:53 AM

LARGE BANDS

Pos Points Band
10   259   RBC Redemption Sound Setters
8   267   NLCB Fonclaire
8   267   PCS Nitrogen Silver Stars
6   268   CAL Invaders
6   268   WITCO Desperadoes
5   270   Junior Sammy Skiffle
4   271   Republic Bank Exodus
3   275   Bp Renegades
2   278   Neal & Massy T’dad All Stars
1   283   Petrotrin Phase ll Pan Groove

People's Choice
3 WITCO Desperadoes
2 Petrotrin Phase ll Pan Groove
1 Neal & Massy T’dad All Stars

Results:

Medium Bands

Pos   Points   Band
10   254   Arima Angel Harps
9   256   Carib Dixeland
7   258   Steel Xplosion
7   258   Valley Harps
6   264   NGC Couva Joylanders
5   265   Pan Elders
4   267   Curepe Scherzando
3   272   Petrotrin Katzenjammers
2   276   Courts Sound Specialists of Laventille
1   279   NLCB Buccooneers

People's Choice:
3 Pan Elders
2 NLCB Buccooneers
1 Courts Sound Specialists of Laventille

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: Observer on February 10, 2013, 08:08:35 AM

Loved how Phase II brought it, real sweet. Surprised at where Despers was placed. Skiffle Bunch?

Big up Bucconeers, Tobago in the big house, with Katzenjammers running 3rd. Must admit I enjoyed Joylanders.

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: Bitter on February 10, 2013, 10:34:22 AM

http://www.youtube.com/v/933hY57XAMs

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: Socapro on February 10, 2013, 01:16:34 PM

T&T PANORAMA 2013 MEDIUM & LARGE CONVENTIONAL STEELBANDS FINALS RESULTS

SATURDAY 9TH FEBRUARY, 2013 @ QUEEN PARK’S SAVANNAH, PORT OF SPAIN

MEDIUM BANDS RESULTS (DESENDING ORDER):

1st (279pts) NLCB Buccooneeers "Gold" sung by Machel Montano & Friends & arranged by Seion Gomez; 2013 Champion :applause: : Made 8pts improvement from their Semi-final score of 271pts.

2nd (276pts) Courts Sound Specialists of Laventille "Long Time" sung by Arrow & arranged by Ken Philmore; Made 8pts improvement from their Semi-final score of 268pts.

3rd (272pts) Petrotrin Katzenjammers "Kershorn - The Javelin Champion" sung by Eunice Peters & arranged by Len “Boogsie” Sharpe; Made 14pts improvement from their Semi-final score of 258pts.

4th (267pts) Curepe Scherzando "We Come Out To Play" sung by DeFosto & arranged by Yohan Popwell;
Made 12pts improvement from their Semi-final score of 255pts.

5th (265pts) Pan Elders "We Come Out To Play" sung by DeFosto & arranged by Duvone Stewart;
Made 3pt improvements from their Semi-final score of 262pts.

6th (264pts) NGC Couva Joylanders "Band From Space" sung by Crazy & arranged by Kenneth “Panam” Clarke; Regressed by 2pts from their Semi-final score of 266pts.

TIE 7th (258pts) Steel Xplosion "Tell Dem" sung by Black Stalin & Steve Sealy & arranged by Terrance Marcelle; Made 10pt improvements from their Semi-final score of 248pts.
TIE 7th (258pts) Valley Harps "More Love" sung by Black Stalin & arranged by Michelle Huggins–Watts; Made 4pt improvements from their Semi-final score of 258pts.

9th (256pts) Carib Dixieland "Shock Attack" sung by Denyse Plummer & arranged by Leon “Smooth” Edwards; Made 1pt improvement from their Semi-final score of 255pts.

10th (254) Arima Angel Harps "We Come Out To Play" sung by DeFosto & arranged by Shelton C. Besson; Made 5pts improvement from their Semi-final score of 249pts.

LARGE BANDS RESULTS (DESENDING ORDER):

1st (283pts) Petrotrin Phase II Pan Groove "More Love" sung by Black Stalin & arranged by Len “Boogsie” Sharpe; 2013 Champion :applause: : Made 10pts improvement from their Semi-final score of 273pts.

2nd (278pts) Neal & Massy Trinidad All Stars "Bounce & Drive" sung by Blaxx & arranged by Leon “Smooth” Edwards; Made 7pts improvement from their Semi-final score of 271pts.

3rd (275pts) Bp Renegades "Shock Attack" sung by Denyse Plummer & arranged by Duvone Stewart;
Made 11pts improvement from their Semi-final score of 264pts.

4th (271pts) Republic Bank Exodus "Gold" sung by Machel Montano & Friends & arranged by Pelham Goddard; Regressed by 1pt from their Semi-final score of 272pts.

5th (270pts) Junior Sammy Group Skiffle "Sapna (The Dream)" sung by Gerelle Forbes & arranged by Ray Holman; Made 6pt improvement from their Semi-final score of 264pts.

TIE 6th (268pts) WITCO Desperadoes "Hammer Time" sung by Nicole Greaves & arranged by Robert Greenidge; Regressed by 2pts from their Semi-final score of 270pts.

TIE 6th (268pts) CAL Invaders "Dat Is Lie" sung by Rembunction & arranged by Arddin Herbert;
Made 3pts improvement from their Semi-final score of 265pts.

TIE 8th (267pts) NLCB Fonclaire "Addicted" sung by Destra & arranged by Ken “Professor” Philmore;
Made 3pts improvement from their Semi-final score of 264pts.

TIE 8th (267pts) PCS Nitrogen Silver Stars "Shock Attack" sung by Denyse Plummer & arranged by Edwin Pouchet; Made 2pts improvement from their Semi-final score of 265pts.

10th (259pts) RBC Redemption Sound Setters "More Than An Oil Drum" sung by Joanne Foster & arranged by Winston Gordon; Made 4pts improvement from their Semi-final score of 255pts.

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: Socapro on February 10, 2013, 01:36:04 PM

Please see full Panorama results with tunes, arrangers, points, improvements, etc in my post above!

I can't understand how both Exodus and Despers could have scored less points in the Final than they did in the Semis when they both sounded even better last night than they sounded in the Semis 2 weeks ago. :-\

Also I can't understand how my south band Fonclaire only made a 3 points improvement in the eyes of the judges from the Semis after all those nights of practise and improvements to our Semi-Final arrangement during the last 2 weeks!
Maybe the judges were tired and sleepy after a long night because Fonclaire played last for the night?! :-\

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: palos on February 10, 2013, 10:27:20 PM

Anybody seen Che? Last known whereabouts was on Duke st begging for more love :devil:

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: palos on February 10, 2013, 10:33:01 PM

Quote from: Socapro on February 10, 2013, 01:36:04 PM

Please see full Panorama results with tunes, arrangers, points, improvements, etc in my post above!

I can't understand how both Exodus and Despers could have scored less points in the Final than they did in the Semis when they both sounded even better last night than they sounded in the Semis 2 weeks ago. :-\

Also I can't understand how my south band Fonclaire only made a 3 points imrovement in the eyes of the judges from the Semis after all those nights of practise and improvements to our Semi-Final arrangement during the last 2 weeks!
Maybe the judges were tired and sleepy after a long night because Fonclaire played last for the night?! :-\

Fonclaire had the massive handicap of playing right after Phase II. No amount of practice the weeks before could overcome that.

The best South band BY FAR was Skiffle who should have had a top 3 finish. Respeck and congrats to Skiffle and Ray Holman. A real gem that will go down in panorama history as one of the classics. ALL Southerners should be proud of them.

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: Bitter on February 10, 2013, 11:19:08 PM

Quote from: palos on February 10, 2013, 10:33:01 PM

The best South band BY FAR was Skiffle who should have had a top 3 finish. Respeck and congrats to Skiffle and Ray Holman. A real gem that will go down in panorama history as one of the classics. ALL Southerners should be proud of them.

:beermug:

I was telling people to look out for that tune in the finals. What I heard in the semis had me excited. Who knows what the judges really want

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: Socapro on February 11, 2013, 01:06:20 AM

Quote from: palos on February 10, 2013, 10:33:01 PM

Quote from: Socapro on February 10, 2013, 01:36:04 PM
Please see full Panorama results with tunes, arrangers, points, improvements, etc in my post above!

I can't understand how both Exodus and Despers could have scored less points in the Final than they did in the Semis when they both sounded even better last night than they sounded in the Semis 2 weeks ago. :-\

Also I can't understand how my south band Fonclaire only made a 3 points imrovement in the eyes of the judges from the Semis after all those nights of practise and improvements to our Semi-Final arrangement during the last 2 weeks!
Maybe the judges were tired and sleepy after a long night because Fonclaire played last for the night?! :-\

Fonclaire had the massive handicap of playing right after Phase II. No amount of practice the weeks before could overcome that.

The best South band BY FAR was Skiffle who should have had a top 3 finish. Respeck and congrats to Skiffle and Ray Holman. A real gem that will go down in panorama history as one of the classics. ALL Southerners should be proud of them.

:bs:
It was only a handicap because the judges were either tired combined with their usual anti-South band bias.
Why you think Skiffle also placed much lower than deserved?!

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: palos on February 11, 2013, 01:34:37 AM

Quote from: Socapro on February 11, 2013, 01:06:20 AM

Quote from: palos on February 10, 2013, 10:33:01 PM
Quote from: Socapro on February 10, 2013, 01:36:04 PM
Please see full Panorama results with tunes, arrangers, points, improvements, etc in my post above!

I can't understand how both Exodus and Despers could have scored less points in the Final than they did in the Semis when they both sounded even better last night than they sounded in the Semis 2 weeks ago. :-\

Also I can't understand how my south band Fonclaire only made a 3 points imrovement in the eyes of the judges from the Semis after all those nights of practise and improvements to our Semi-Final arrangement during the last 2 weeks!
Maybe the judges were tired and sleepy after a long night because Fonclaire played last for the night?! :-\

Fonclaire had the massive handicap of playing right after Phase II. No amount of practice the weeks before could overcome that.

The best South band BY FAR was Skiffle who should have had a top 3 finish. Respeck and congrats to Skiffle and Ray Holman. A real gem that will go down in panorama history as one of the classics. ALL Southerners should be proud of them.
:bs:
It was only a handicap because the judges were either tired combined with their usual anti-South band bias.
Why you think Skiffle also placed much lower than deserved?!

One day you'll get over you "dey doh like we because we from south" insecurity. Who knew you and Bertille St Clair had so much in common? ;)

Instead a bein grateful that Fonclaire make de finals in de fuss place, yuh dey cowbawlin all over de people msb bout teefin Fonclaire.

If any band get teef was Despers. I eh hear a peep from yuh bout dat. Oh right, dey eh from South right?

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: Socapro on February 11, 2013, 09:04:10 AM

Quote from: palos on February 11, 2013, 01:34:37 AM

Quote from: Socapro on February 11, 2013, 01:06:20 AM
Quote from: palos on February 10, 2013, 10:33:01 PM
Quote from: Socapro on February 10, 2013, 01:36:04 PM
Please see full Panorama results with tunes, arrangers, points, improvements, etc in my post above!

I can't understand how both Exodus and Despers could have scored less points in the Final than they did in the Semis when they both sounded even better last night than they sounded in the Semis 2 weeks ago. :-\

Also I can't understand how my south band Fonclaire only made a 3 points imrovement in the eyes of the judges from the Semis after all those nights of practise and improvements to our Semi-Final arrangement during the last 2 weeks!
Maybe the judges were tired and sleepy after a long night because Fonclaire played last for the night?! :-\

Fonclaire had the massive handicap of playing right after Phase II. No amount of practice the weeks before could overcome that.

The best South band BY FAR was Skiffle who should have had a top 3 finish. Respeck and congrats to Skiffle and Ray Holman. A real gem that will go down in panorama history as one of the classics. ALL Southerners should be proud of them.
:bs:
It was only a handicap because the judges were either tired combined with their usual anti-South band bias.
Why you think Skiffle also placed much lower than deserved?!

One day you'll get over you "dey doh like we because we from south" insecurity. Who knew you and Bertille St Clair had so much in common? ;)

Instead a bein grateful that Fonclaire make de finals in de fuss place, yuh dey cowbawlin all over de people msb bout teefin Fonclaire.

If any band get teef was Despers. I eh hear a peep from yuh bout dat. Oh right, dey eh from South right?

If you read back your previous post you would see that you self said this:

Quote

The best South band BY FAR was Skiffle who should have had a top 3 finish. Respeck and congrats to Skiffle and Ray Holman. A real gem that will go down in panorama history as one of the classics. ALL Southerners should be proud of them.

Now seeing that they finished 5th and you self said that they should have placed in the top 3, this only means that you are now contradicting yourself! ::)

And btw is your memory span so short? I was the first one in this thread to indicate that I thought that Despers was cheated when I posted this:

Quote

I can't understand how both Exodus and Despers could have scored less points in the Final than they did in the Semis when they both sounded even better last night than they sounded in the Semis 2 weeks ago.

So its obvious that I am not blindly biased towards South bands and do appreciate good music from any steelband.

What I was saying is that Fonclaire should have scored more points in my opinion based on the improvement they made in their arrangement and performance from the Semis. Same goes for Despers and Exodus and we all know that neither Despers or Exodus are South bands so you clearly lost this argument and need to go back to the drawing board! :loser: ;D

Btw I do believe that your band deserved to win so congrats to Phase II. :applause:

Title: Re: Panorama 2013
Post by: che on February 12, 2013, 10:10:17 AM

Quote from: palos on February 10, 2013, 10:27:20 PM

Anybody seen Che? Last known whereabouts was on Duke st begging for more love :devil:

Palos I am right here ;D, Congrats to Phase II on a well deserved victory. All Stars (the people's champ ) will be back next year to reclaim their crown.

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