The sounds of twenty seven (27) steelbands will resound at Skinner Park, San Fernando, on Thursday 4th February 2016 as the Petrotrin Single and Small Bands Finals get underway.
Showtime is 6:00pm. Tickets are $100.
The two defending champions, San Juan East Side Symphony and Arima Golden Symphony, are going all out to retain their titles, having topped their respective categories. The former under the baton of maestro Duvone Stewart amassed 276 points for their rendition of Chris Tambu Herbert’s “No No We Eh Going Home” while Arima Golden Symphony earned 267 points for “D’Greatest Invention” as arranged by Terrence BJ Marcelle.
Seventeen (17) Single Pan Bands and ten (10) Small Conventional Bands will be marked on the basis of a maximum of 100 points. The adjudication criteria are Arrangement (40), General Performance (40), Tone (10) and Rhythm (10) points. Six (6) Judges will officiate.
Patrons attending this event will have an opportunity to win two (2) return tickets to any North American Caribbean Airlines destination. Winners in the Single Pan category will receive $200,000. and the Pan Trinbago Inc. Trophy while that in the Small Band will collect $400,000. and the bp Challenge Trophy.
The following is order of appearance:-
SINGLE PAN BANDS
1 Pan Jammers Somebody Robert Tobitt
2 Woodbrook Playboyz Free Up Michelle Huggins-Watts
3 Platinum Unknown Band Natasha Joseph
4 Marsicans Say Say Marlon White
5 Trinidad Nostalgic Gimme More Amrit Samaroo
6 T&T Defence Force Don’t Stop This Party Sheldon Peters
7 Gonzales Sheikers Like Ah Boss Keisha Codrington
8 Arima All Stars Kaka Roach Brian Austin
9 Uni Stars The Jammers Kareem Brown
10 Shades in Steel No No We Eh Going Home Dante Pantin
11 Trinidad East Side Symphony Total Disorder Carlon Harewood
12 Nu Pioneers Pan Groove Teaser Shaun/Simon Marcano
13 T&T Fire Services Rebecca Terrence BJ Marcelle
14 San Juan East Side Symphony No No We Eh Going Home Duvone Stewart
15 Newtown Playboys Steel Symphony On The Road/Ah Come Back Seion Gomez
16 D’Original Woodbrook Modernaires On The Road Ankoma Bobby Paul
17 Pan Stereonettes Pan In Danger Anslem Campbell
SMALL CONVENTIONAL BANDS FINALISTS
1 Tamana Pioneers De Mystery Band Richard Gittens
2 Arima Golden Symphony D” Greatest Invention Terrence BJ Marcelle
3 Our Boys Gimme More Anslem Campbell
4 Fascinators Pan Symphony Like Ah Boss Yohan Popwell
5 La Horquetta Pan Groove Raising Dust Kion Robinson
6 Tornadoes Mash It Up Shervon Edwards
7 T&TEC New East Side Dimension Both Ah Dem Mikhail Salcedo
8 Laventille Serenaders Pan Jumbie Arddin Herbert
9 Five Rivers Modern Symphony Pan In Danger Erwin Louis / Christopher Coward
10 Pandemonium My House Akua Leith
source: www.ncctt.org
