The National Steelband Music Festival Pan is Beautiful XII Champion
There is a new champion in the National Steelband Music Festival Pan is Beautiful XII.
They are the East Dry River-based Codrington Pan Family who are no strangers to winners’ row.
The band led by Cary Codrington performed the Test Piece and a Keisha Codrington composition, ”The Pan with Love – Our Gift to the World”, adapted by Cary, Keisha & Khari Codrington , took the top spot with a combined total of 577 points to win $250,000. They also captured the title for the Best Tune of Choice with 289.points.
The Orchestra Class Finals was held at the Grand Stand, Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain, last Saturday evening before an audience which included The President of the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago, His Excellency Anthony Thomas Aquinas Carmona ORTT, SC, patron of the Festival.
Caribbean Airlines Invaders placed second with 571 points for their performance their own (Arddin Herbert) composition “Overture to 1962 (Independence Day)” and the Test Piece. The latter was adjudged the Best Test Piece with 289 points. The band opted perform a “new” Tune of Choice for this leg of the competition.
Eight (8) steel orchestras competed before the distinguished panel of adjudicators comprising Dr. Ronnie Wooten, Dr. Lennard Moses, Dr. Anne Marion Osborne and Mr. Lambert Phillip.
The Competition results are as follows:
| Single Pan | Band Selection | Points | Total |
| Codrington Pan Family | Mr. Pan Maker | 288 | 577 |
| The Pan With Love – Our Gift to the World | 289 | ||
| CAL Invaders | Mr .Pan Maker | 289 | 571 |
| Overture to 1962 (Independence Day) | 282 | ||
| NGC Couva Joylanders | Mr. Pan Maker | 285 | 566 |
| Symphonic Suite from the Lord of The Rings- The Fellowship of The Ring |
281 | ||
| Bp Renegades | Mr. Pan Maker | 287 | 550 |
| Academic Festival Overture | 263 | ||
| Republic Bank Exodus | Mr. Pan Maker | 270 | 547 |
| Moods of The Maestro | 277 | ||
| Pan Elders | Mr. Pan Maker | 253 | 496 |
| The Barber of Seville Overture | 243 | ||
| T&TEC Tropical Angel Harps | Mr. Pan Maker | 235 | 489 |
| The Voices in My Head | 254 | ||
| Diatonic Steel Orchestra | Mr. Pan Maker | 237 | 476 |
| Symphony No 4 | 239 |
Composer of the Test Piece, “Mr. Pan Maker”, Dr. Leroy Calliste, aka The Black Stalin was also on the receiving end as he was presented with an Award by the Chair of the Festival Committee, Col. Edison Isaac, HBM.
