An­ge­lo Mar­celle

Still lick­ing their fin­gers af­ter a sweet vic­to­ry at the 2010 Pan in The 21st Cen­tu­ry com­pe­ti­tion, Cli­co Sforza­ta Steel Or­ches­tra host­ed a thanks­giv­ing ser­vice and pan jam­boree at its Evans Street, Curepe, pa­n­yard on Ju­ly 25 in com­mem­o­ra­tion of its 35 years in ex­is­tence.

The band start­ed off the cel­e­bra­tions with it's ren­di­tion of Em­pire State of Mind, Liber­ian Girl, Hands of Light­ning, Bad and All In­clu­sive. Join­ing in the cel­e­bra­tions were fel­low steel pan bands, Val­ley Harps Steel Or­ches­tra, Cou­va Joy­lan­ders, Caribbean Air­lines In­vaders, and LH Pan Groove. Al­so in at­ten­dance was the pres­i­dent of Pan Trin­ba­go, Kei­th Di­az.

Ac­cord­ing to Sforza­ta's cap­tain, Trevor Reid, win­ning was not some­thing new to the band, as it had won the medi­um band cat­e­go­ry at the na­tion­al lev­el in 2006, 2007 and 2009. In 2008, it was al­so the first prize win­ner at the Point Fortin bor­ough day cel­e­bra­tions. Reid said Sforza­ta's main ob­jec­tive in the near fu­ture was to build a steel pan camp for the com­mu­ni­ty.

On Ju­ly 12 the band start­ed a youth camp, which in­volved teach­ing par­tic­i­pants the the­o­ret­i­cal and prac­ti­cal as­pect of play­ing the na­tion­al in­stru­ment. An­ge­lo Mar­celle

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The month of Au­gust is themed "To­tal Lo­cal' in the steel pan fra­ter­ni­ty. Oth­er fra­ter­ni­ties will al­so be ac­knowl­edg­ing the month set aside to recog­nise and ap­pre­ci­ate lo­cal tal­ent. Less than a hand­ful of ra­dio sta­tions have al­ready start­ed ad­ver­tis­ing the "I am Lo­cal' theme for the month for lo­cal singers. While on­ly one tele­vi­sion sta­tion has ac­knowl­edged the theme.