Pan Trinbago Eastern Region National Panorama Prelims (Single Pan Bands)

“Excitement and Excellence ‘ it will be as the Eastern Region hosts the National Single Pan Panorama Preliminaries on Sunday January 10th 2016 at the Arima Velodrome, Arima, from 5:00 pm.

Twenty one (21) bands will perform before the judges’ panel in a bid to secure places in the semi final round which will be held in front Pan Trinbago Head Office, opposite Victoria Square, Park Street, Port of Spain, on January 22nd 2016, in Competition starts at 7:00 pm. The event is free to the public.

Steelbands’ selections range from traditional calypso, soca, oldies and goldies, power and groovy soca with compositions penned by Winsford Devine with the most plays, closely followed by Austin Lyons aka Superblue. Caribbean artistes in Biggie Irie and Becket also have songs in the mix.

Defending champion, San Juan East Side Symphony, will play in position 13. The San Juan based steelband will once again be under the baton of maestro Duvone Stewart with his arrangement of Christopher “Tambu” Herbert’s “ No No We Eh Going Home”.

The complete list of competitors, their selections and tuners is listed below:

	Bands	Selection	Composer	Arranger
1.	Pan on the Move	Like A Boss	M. Montano / Deputy (Roc Nation) / Full Blown Entertainment	Kenneth Panaam
2.	Trinidad Nostalgic	Gimme More	Edwin Ayoung	Amrit Samaroo
3.	Platinum	Unknown Band	Austin Lyons	Natasha Joseph
4.	Trinidad East Side	Total Disorder	Kelvin Pope	Carlon Harewood
5.	Cocorite Road Pan Groovers	Both Ah Dem	Slinger Francisco	Jahira Harris
6.	Sound of Music	Mr. Big	Thecla Forde-Rodriguez	Bertram Brewster
7.	St. Thomas Silver Stars	Nah Going Home	Carlton ‘Biggie Irie” Cardle	Marvin Connor
8.	Marsicans	Say Say	Winsford Devine	Marlon White
9.	Chord Masters	I Dare You	Destra Garcia / Jason Ben	Kyshon Frith / Edward Gregory Joseph
10.	United Sounds	Happiest Man Alive	Machel Montano	The Brady Bunch
11.	Star Sapphire	Trini to the Bone	David Rudder / Carl Jacob	Trevor Charles
12.	Arima All Stars S / Orch.	Kaka Roach	Aldwyn Roberts	Brian Austin
13.	San Juan East Side Symphony	No No We Eh Going Home	Christopher Herbert	Duvone Stewart
14.	North Eastern All Stars	Party Time Again	Errol Ballantyne	Committee Members
15.	San Juan All Stars	Nah Do Dat	Neil Iwer George	Akiba Joseph
16.	Pan Stereonettes	Pan In Danger	Dennis Franklyn Williams	Anslem Campbell
17.	Magic Notes Rebirth	Pan Earthquake	Aldwyn Roberts	Rishi Depoosingh / Jerome Jones
18.	Pan Jammers	Somebody	Winsford Devine	Robert Tobitt
19.	Pan Elites	Signal To Lara	Austin Lyons	Nathanael Flemming
20.	Nu Pioneers Pan Groove	Teaser	Alston Cyrus	Shaun Marcano / Simon Marcano
21.	East Phonics	This Melody Sweet	Winsford Devine	Lloyd Cameron

Conventional Bands – Small and Medium categories- in the Eastern Region will have their moment of glory on Friday January 15th 2016 at the Arima Velodrome, Arima, from 6:00 pm. Tickets cost $75.00