Arranger Du­vone Stew­art se­cured a his­toric sweep of the small, medi­um and large Na­tion­al Panora­ma ti­tles af­ter the heav­i­ly favoured bp Rene­gades re­peat­ed as the large band cham­pi­ons at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain, on Sun­day morn­ing, while Pan El­ders se­cured their sixth con­sec­u­tive medi­um ti­tle.

Two days ear­li­er, the De­fence Force band, play­ing an­oth­er Stew­art arrange­ment, won the Small Band cat­e­go­ry in San Fer­nan­do, mak­ing Stew­art the first ever arranger to win the small, medi­um and large con­ven­tion­al band ti­tles in one sea­son.

Pan Trin­ba­go pres­i­dent Bev­er­ley Ram­sey Moore had promised Sat­ur­day's fi­nal would be dy­nam­ic based on re­quests made by bands lead­ing up to the fi­nal.

Con­fet­ti and py­rotech­nics were favoured by some, while a bit of the­atre was added at times.

None more so than Rene­gades, who start­ed their ti­tle de­fence with a skit in­volv­ing Stew­art hav­ing his be­long­ings placed in a garbage bag by his lover (por­trayed by Kim­my Stoute-Robin­son), who was up­set that he had more time to arrange pan mu­sic than their re­la­tion­ship.

It set the tone for a mea­sured per­for­mance of Farmer Nap­py's 'Hookin Meh' by the Char­lotte Street-based band, with the tran­si­tion to Den­sye Plum­mer's Nah Leav­ing com­bined with a fi­nal twist see­ing Stew­art re­veal­ing his tuxe­do to the tune of Here Comes The Bride, with his lover re­turn­ing to em­brace him in a wed­ding dress, to com­plete the sto­ry arc.

Rene­gades scored 288 points to win the crown.

While Rene­gades were favoured, they were al­so close­ly pur­sued by Des­per­a­does, as the gap be­tween the two bands was just three points. How­ev­er, sec­ond, third and fourth place were all sep­a­rat­ed by a point each.

Des­per­a­does al­so put to­geth­er a stel­lar ef­fort with the open­ing per­for­mance of the large cat­e­go­ry, set­ting off the fire­works ear­ly with their take of Nailah Black­man's Iron Love. The en­er­getic set, which was matched by an ex­u­ber­ant Black­man try­ing her hand at flag­woman du­ties, earned them sec­ond place with 285 points.

Trinidad All Stars opt­ed for a far more tra­di­tion­al set piece for their spin on Na­dia Bat­son's So Long and in­stead fo­cused build­ing a classy set, which gained one of the great re­ac­tions of the night for their in­cor­po­ra­tion of Ar­row's Long Time in­to the set. Bat­son, like Black­man, served as flag­woman dur­ing the per­for­mance. They scored 284 points for their ef­fort.

Shell In­vaders fin­ished fourth with their ver­sion of Farmer Nap­py's 2019 hit song.

Re­pub­lic Bank Ex­o­dus' change of song to Kees Di­ef­fen­thaller's road march con­tender Sa­van­nah Grass did not el­e­vate them up the stand­ings, as they tied for ninth with Trop­i­cal An­gel Harps.

Ear­li­er, Pan El­ders' dom­i­na­tion of the medi­um cat­e­go­ry was sealed by a rous­ing per­for­mance of Scrunter's The Will.

Katzen­jam­mers placed sec­ond, with a spir­it­ed ver­sion of Shad­ow's Stranger while Cou­va Joy­lan­ders took third with their take on Fire in the Area.

Sev­er­al bands paid trib­ute to the Mighty Shad­ow, Ken “Pro­fes­sor” Philmore and Win­ston “De Orig­i­nal De Fos­to” Scar­bor­ough dur­ing their pre­sen­ta­tions. Dur­ing the break be­tween the cat­e­gories, to­kens were al­so hand­ed over to rel­a­tives of the three late cul­tur­al icons by Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley, Min­is­ter of Cul­ture Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly and Pan Trin­ba­go pres­i­dent Ram­sey Moore.

PANORA­MA RE­SULTS:

(Large Bands)

1. Rene­gades (Hookin’ Meh - Du­vone Stew­art) 288

2. Des­per­a­does (Iron Love - Carl­ton “Zan­da” Alexan­der) 285

3. Trinidad All Stars (So Long - Leon “Smooth” Ed­wards) 284

4. In­vaders (Hookin’ Meh - Ar­den Her­bert) 283

5. Skif­fle (So Long - Marc Brooks, Kendall Williams, Odie Franklin) 281

6. Phase II Pan Groove (Par­ty Start - Len “Boogsie” Sharpe) 280

7. Su­per­novas (Hookin’ Meh - Am­rit Sama­roo) 277

8. Sil­ver Stars (Rag Storm - Liam Teague) 275

9. Ex­o­dus (Sa­van­nah Grass - Pel­ham God­dard) 272

10. Trop­i­cal An­gel Harps (Rag Storm - Clarence Mor­ris) 272

(Medi­um Bands)

1. Pan El­ders (The Will - Du­vone Stew­art) 282 pts

2. Katzen­jam­mers (Stranger - Ter­rence “BJ” Mar­celle) 276

3. Cou­va Joy­lan­ders (Fire In The Area - Ste­fon West) 275

4. Sound Spe­cial­ists (The Phung-Uh-Nung Sweet - Seion Gomez) 273

4. Pam­beri (Gyal Own­er - An­dre White) 273

6. Curepe Scherzan­do (Yuh Look­ing For Horn - Yohan Pop­plewell) 272

7. Melo­di­ans (Hookin Meh - Mar­lon White) 270

8. Steel Xplo­sion (She Want Me To Sing In She Par­ty - Ak­i­ba Joseph) 268

9. Val­ley Harps (Din­go­lay - Robert To­bit) 265

10. Cordettes (Pro­fes­sor Say - Kion Robin­son) 263