The National Panorama Small and Medium Pan Bands Semi Finals 2016
Thirteen (13) steel orchestras from Tobago have qualified for the National Panorama Semi Finals carded for this weekend.
Out of a total of thirty four (34) bands in the Small and Medium categories, ten (10) qualified from Tobago, with two Single Pan Bands and one Large Conventional Band making the final cut.
The semi-final round of the Single Pan Band takes place on Friday January 22nd opposite Victoria Square, Port of Spain, with the Small, Medium and Large Bands on Sunday 24th January at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain. Starting time for the latter is 9:00 am.
This year, a decision was taken to revert to judging the three Conventional Bands’ categories on the same day. In all, a total of fifty one (51) steel bands will face three adjudication panels for places in the Grand Finals.
Taking top spots in the Semi Final rounds were Tornadoes (Small) and Pan Elders (Medium) with “Mash it Up” and “Me Eh Fighting For No Man” respectively.
The following is the Small Band and Medium Conventional Semi Finalists.
SMALL
| 1 | Tornadoes | Mash It Up | 265 |
| 2 | Arima Golden Symphony | D” Greatest Invention | 262 |
| 3 | Five Rivers Modern Symphony | Pan In Danger | 261 |
| 3 | Old Tech | Guitar Pan | 261 |
| 5 | La Horquetta Pan Groove | Raising Dust | 260 |
| 5 | Laventille Serenaders | Pan Jumbie | 260 |
| 7 | Crescendoes Musical | Free Up | 259 |
| 7 | Fusion Steel | Doh Back Back | 259 |
| 9 | Nu Tones | Dust In Dey Face | 258 |
| 10 | Our Boys | Gimme More | 257 |
| 10 | T&TEC New East Side Dimension | Both Ah Dem | 257 |
| 10 | Uptown Fascinators | This Party Is It | 257 |
| 13 | Fascinators Pan Symphony | Like Ah Boss | 255 |
| 13 | Tamana Pioneers | De Mystery Band | 255 |
| 15 | Pandemonium | My House | 254 |
| 16 | Steel Sensations | The Magicians | 253 |
| 16 | Tobago Pan-thers | Signal to Lara | 253 |
| 16 | Moods | Mash It Up | 253 |
| 16 | Golden Hands | Young and Free | 253 |
| 20 | C&B Crown Cordaans | She Coming | 252 |
MEDIUM
| 1 | Pan Elders | Me Eh Fighting For No Man | 266 |
| 2 | Petrotrin Katzenjammers | I Don’t Mind | 262 |
| 3 | Courts Sound Specialists of Laventille | The Ganges and the Nile | 258 |
| 3 | Cureoe Scherzando | Madness | 258 |
| 5 | St. Margaret’s Super Stars | Ben Lion | 256 |
| 6 | NLCB Buccooneers | Bass On Fire | 255 |
| 7 | Carib Dixieland | Soca Baptist | 253 |
| 8 | Belmont 5th Dimension | Long Time | 251 |
| 8 | Melodians | Fete | 251 |
| 8 | Western Stars Philharmonics | Unforgettable | 251 |
| 11 | NGC Couva Joylanders | Come With It | 250 |
| 12 | NGC Steel Xplosion | Wanted Dead Or Alive | 249 |
| 12 | West Side Symphony | Dead Or Alive | 249 |
| 14 | Pamberi | First Time | 246 |
