T&T National Panorama Semi Finals is on right now and is being covered live on C-TV at this link:
Ctntworld.com The home of CarnivalAnd here is the Order of Appearances for both the Medium and Large Bands categories:
Medium and Large SemifinalsIt will be “Excitement and Excellence” as a total of fifty one (51) steel orchestras converge at the “Mecca of Pan”, Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain, on Sunday 24th January 2016 from 9:00 am for the National Panorama Semi Finals and Savannah Party.
Starting the competition is former Single Pan Band, multi-time winner, La Horquetta Pan Groove, with the Kion Robinson arrangement of “Raising Dust” composed by Godwin Bowen.
And “raising dust” it will be as each of the bands vie for the coveted places in their categories in the Grand Finals.
Defending champions, Arima Golden Symphony (Small) will face the judges at position four, Pan Elders (Medium) in eleventh spot with Massy Trinidad All Stars (Large) playing at number four.
Tickets are available at Cleve’s Frederick Street, Crosby’s St. James, Atherly’s San Fernando, Pan Trinbago Head Office, Park Street, and on line at
www.panorama16.com The semi finalists are as follows:-
MEDIUMOrder Band "Song" (Singer) Arranger 1.West Side Symphony "Dead Or Alive" (Shurwayne Winchester) Mickiel Gabriel
2. Pamberi "First Time" (Destra Garcia) Brian Villafana
3. NGC Couva Joylanders "Come With It" (Black Stalin) Kareem Brown
4. NLCB Buccooneers "Bass On Fire" (Kernal Roberts) Seion Gomez
5. Carib Dixieland "Soca Baptist" (Superblue) Leon Smooth Edwards
6. St. Margaret’s Super Stars "Ben Lion" (Andre Tanker & 3 Canal) Shenelle Abraham
7. Western Stars Philharmonics "Unforgettable" (Kerwin Dubois ft. Patrice Roberts) Len Boogsie Sharpe
8. Petrotrin Katzenjammers "I Don’t Mind" (Winston Soso) Terrence BJ Marcelle
9.Belmont 5th Dimension "Long Time" (Arrow) Clive Telemaque
10. Melodians "Fete" (Superblue) Amrit Samaroo
11. Pan Elders "Me Eh Fighting For No Man" (Bally) Duvone Stewart
12.Courts Sound Specialists of Laventille "The Ganges and the Nile" (David Rudder) Ken Professor Philmore
13. NGC Steel Xplosion "Wanted Dead Or Alive" (Sparrow) Arddin Herbert
14.Curepe Scherzando "Madness" (David Rudder) Yohan Popwell
LARGE Order Band "Song" (Singer) Arranger 1.Sangre Grande Cordettes "A Groovy Song For Pan" (Juliet Robin) Khion De Las
2. bpRenegades "Music Inside Meh Head" (Nadia Batson) Duvone Stewart
3. Skiffle Steel Orchestra "How She Like It" (Hypa Sounds) Kendall Williams/Marc Brooks/Odie Franklin
4. Massy Trinidad All Stars "Leave We Alone" (Sheldon Reid) Leon Smooth Edwards
5. PSC Nitrogen Silver Stars "Panoramic" (Sekon Sta) Liam Teague
6. Harmonites Steel Orchestra "Soca Have Them So" (Anslem Douglas) Earl La Pierre
7. T&TEC Tropical Angel Harps "Nostalgia" (Anslem Douglas) Clarence Morris
8. Phase II Pan Groove "Madd Music" (Keith Lucas) Len Boogsie Sharpe
9. CAL Invaders "Take Dat" (RemBunction & Terri Lyons) Arddin Herbert
10. Desperadoes "Different Me" (5 Star Akil) Carlton Zanda Alexander
11. NGC La Brea Nightingales "Nostalgia" (Anslem Douglas) Terrence BJ Marcelle
12. Republic Bank Exodus "The Big Yard" (David Rudder) Pelham Goddard
13. RBC Redemption Sound Setters "No No We Ain’t Going Home" (Tambu) Michael Toby/Darren Sheppard
14. NLCB Fonclaire "Bass On Fire" (Kernal Roberts) Ken Professor Philmore
15.SuperNovas "Breakthrough" (Chuck Gordon) Amrit Samaroo
16. MHTL Starlift "Bass On Fire" (Kernal Roberts) Robert Greenidge
17. Birdsong "DIS 1.4.Raf" (Andy Narell pan lead) Andy Narell