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Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Tobago's proud Panomara moment

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Camille McEachnie
2011 days ago
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Members of Courts Sound Specialists of Laventille Steel Orchestra go through their rendition before going on stage during the National Panorama Medium band finals in Tobago last night.

Members of Courts Sound Specialists of Laventille Steel Orchestra go through their rendition before going on stage during the National Panorama Medium band finals in Tobago last night.

VINDRA GOPAUL-BOODAN

Camille McEach­nie

To­ba­go's first-ever Na­tion­al Panora­ma fi­nal is un­der­way at the Dwight Yorke Sta­di­um pa­rade grounds .

The event, which catered for the medi­um steel or­ches­tras, saw the Courts Sound Spe­cial­ists of Laven­tille sound the first note with Ah Feel­ing to Rock arranged by Seion Gomez.

The band was among the 10 fi­nal­ists to com­pete—sev­en from Trinidad and three from To­ba­go.

Not­ing the im­por­tance of the event, Pan Trin­ba­go's pres­i­dent, To­bag­on­ian, Bev­er­ly Ram­sey-Moore said it was "a proud na­tion­al Panora­ma mo­ment and a proud mo­ment for To­ba­go."

She told Guardian Me­dia the hold­ing the medi­um and large bands' fi­nals on dif­fer­ent days had been tried be­fore but were un­suc­cess­ful.

She sold the idea of hold­ing the event in To­ba­go to Pan Trin­ba­go's ex­ec­u­tive and they agreed.

"I told them if we brought the medi­um bands to To­ba­go, it is now go­ing to be­come To­ba­go large band fi­nals."

She said there were "chal­lenges" for the bands com­ing from Trinidad. "I know that for those bands, there are chal­lenges and they have screamed but they will get used to it," the Katzen­jam­mers man­agers said.

"This is a tremen­dous ex­pe­ri­ence. We all should get used to hav­ing the medi­um steel or­ches­tra fi­nals in To­ba­go, she said.


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