Single Pan Semi Finals 2015

T&T Fire Services and San Juan East Side Symphony topped the National Panorama Single Pan Bands Preliminaries with 269 points. The latter is the defending champion.

T&T Fire Services played the Aldwyn Roberts’ composition “Fever” arranged by Terrance BJ Marcelle with San Juan East Side Symphony under the baton of Duvone Stewart played Ronnie Mc Intosh’s “Shaking It”.

In third spot was Marsicans with Alphonus Cassell’s (Arrow) Long Time. They scored 268 points.

Fourth placed was T&T Defence Force with 267 points for their rendition of Christopher Herbert’s “This Party Is It”. Their piece was arranged by Sheldon Peters and Kion Robinson.

There were several two, three and four-way ties among the qualifiers. At the end of the exercise, thirty three (33) bands made it to the Semi Finals which is carded for the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain, on Saturday January 31st 2015.  Small Bands will also have their semi final round on the same day. Starting time is 12 noon.  Admission is $100. Grand Stand only.

A total of seventy (70) Single Pan Bands performed their tune of choice before the panel of judges over a period of four (4) days at zonal venues in Trinidad & Tobago.

Three Tobago based bands are in the running ie Hope Pan Groovers, New Vision, and Metro Stars.

Representatives of each of the participating bands were invited to witness the opening of the score sheets earlier today at City Hall Auditorium, Port of Spain.

The following is the list of the semi-finalists:-

1.	T&T Fire Services	Fever	269
1.	San Juan East Side Symphony	Shaking It	269
3.	Marsicans	Long Time	268
4.	T&T Defence Force	This Party Is It	267
5.	Nu Pioneers Pan Groove	Pan In A Rage	266
5.	Scorpion Pan Reflections	Long Time	266
7.	Hope Pan Groovers	Nah Do Dat	265
7.	Tiger Tanks Fyzabad 4th Dimension	Ooh La La	265
9.	Pan Jammers	Chutney Bacchanal	264
10.	Shades in Steel	Ah Want It	261
11.	Trinidad Nostalgic	Ooh La La	259
11.	Gonzales Sheikers	Too Real	259
11.	La Creole Pan Groove	Unknown Band	259
14.	Trinidad East Side Symphony	Fire Coming Down	258
15.	Brimblers	Toco Band	257
16.	Carib Woodbrook Playboyz	Ola	255
16.	New Vision	Ben Lion	255
16.	City Sun Valley	All Night Tonight	255
16.	D’Original W/brook Modernaires	Yes Darling	255
20.	Pan Elites	Free Up	254
20.	Uni Stars	Rain Melody	254
20.	Chord Masters	No Wuk For Carnival	254
20.	Scrunters Pan Groove	Symptoms	254
24.	Self Help Marines	Rainorama	253
24.	Cocorite Road Pan Groovers	Ah Going And Party Tonight	253
26.	La Famille United	Unknown Band	250
26.	Blanca 47	Pan In Danger	250
26.	St. James Tripolians	Wet Me	250
29.	Metro Stars	Showtime	249
29.	Rio Claro Koskeros	Doh Back Back	249
29.	Pan on the Move	Ah Feeling	249
32.	King’s Row Retro Riddum	Wine On Something	248
32.	Curepe Polyphonics	Sweet Pan	248