La Hor­quet­ta (LH) Pan Groove has qual­i­fied for Sun­day's Na­tion­al Panora­ma se­mi-fi­nals round of com­pe­ti­tion in the small con­ven­tion­al band cat­e­go­ry. The band which was a dom­i­nant force in the sin­gle pan cat­e­go­ry of the mu­sic con­test of­fi­cial­ly grad­u­at­ed to the con­ven­tion­al class this year and im­pressed mu­sic ad­ju­di­ca­tors last week­end to se­cure a place at this week­end's play­bill. Re­sults pub­lished by Pan Trin­ba­go, put LH Pan Groove sixth over­all with a score of 252 points. On Sun­day, 18 small and 15 medi­um bands will join 16 large bands for the Panora­ma mu­sic pro­duc­tion, pop­u­lar­ly re­ferred to as Sa­van­nah Par­ty, at the Queen's Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain.

The qual­i­fy­ing bands in or­der of mer­it are:

Small

1. Ari­ma Gold­en Sym­pho­ny - 268;

2. Tamana Pi­o­neers - 258;

3. Gold­en Hands - 257;

4. Co­dring­ton Pan Fam­i­ly - 256;

5. Su­per No­va - 253;

6. LH Pan Groove - 252;

7. Nu Tones - 250;

8. South­ern Marines Steel­band Foun­da­tion - 245;

9. Laven­tille Ser­e­naders - 244;

10. Old Tech Steel Or­ches­tra - 242;

11. To­ba­go Pan-Thers - 241;

12. Mer­ry­tones - 239;

13. Tor­na­does - 237;

14. Sim­ple Song - 235;

15. St Mar­garet's Su­per­stars - 235;

16. Long­denville Clay­tones - 228;

17. Fas­ci­na­tors Pan Sym­pho­ny - 227; and

18. T&TEC New East Side Di­men­sion - 226.

Medi­um

1. Katzen­jam­mers - 263;

2. Val­ley Harps - 262;

3. Courts Sound Spe­cial­ists of Laven­tille - 261;

4. NL­CB Buc­cooneers - 257;

5. Curepe Scherzan­do - 252;

6. Pow­er Stars - 251;

7. Pan El­ders - 246;

Melo­di­ans - 246;

8. Pam­beri - 244;

9. Steel Xplo­sion - 241;

West Side Sym­pho­ny - 241;

Carib Dix­ieland - 241;

10. Petrotrin Hat­ters - 240;

11. San­gre Grande Cordettes - 237; and

Bel­mont Fifth Di­men­sion - 237.