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Petrotrin National Single Pan & Small Band Finals 2015

Defending Single Pan Band Champion San Juan East Side Symphony will play at position 12 while their joint counterparts in the Small Band category, Super Novas, will perform first with Pan Jammers going in at number six.

The three (3) are part of the twenty nine (29) band line-up at the Petrotrin National Single Pan & Small Band Finals at Skinner Park, San Fernando, on Thursday 12th February 2015. Competition starts at 6:00 pm.

Super Novas, the Lopinot based band led by Anthony Samaroo will play Amrit Samaroo’s arrangement of “Dr. Samaroo”. The song was composed by Mark Loquan and sung by Anslem Douglas.  Trinidad East Side Symphony under the baton of Duvone Stewart will perform “Shaking It” composed and sung by Ronnie Mc Intosh while Pan Jammers have opted for Chris Garcia’s  “Chutney Bacchanal” arranged by Robert Tobitt.

The Sando event is the first of two finals in which the top steel orchestras through an elimination process will vie for bragging rights.

Winner in the Single Pan category will receive $200,000.  with the Small Conventional category winner collecting $400,000. and the bp and Pan Trinbago Challenge Trophies.

Earlier today, the competitors drew for playing positions. The order of appearance is as follows:-

Single Pan Band

  1. Trinidad Nostalgic
  2. La Creole Pan Groove
  3. Gonzales Sheikers
  4. Trinidad East Side Symphony
  5. Scorpion Pan Reflections
  6. Pan Jammers
  7. T&T Defence Force
  8. Uni Stars
  9. Shades in Steel
  10. Curepe Polyphonics
  11. New Vision
  12. San Juan East Side Symphony
  13. Hope Pan Groovers
  14. Scrunter’s Pan Groove
  15. T&T Fire Service
  16. La Famille United
  17. Marsicans
  18. Chord Masters
  19. City Sun Valley

Small Conventional Band

  1. Super Novas
  2. Laventille Serenaders
  3. Arima Golden Symphony
  4. Longdenville Claytones
  5. Crescendoes Musicale
  6. Our Boys
  7. Tornadoes
  8. Golden Hands
  9. New Generation
  10. Moods

Patrons attending the show will be eligible to win two (2) airline tickets on any Caribbean Airlines destination. Admission is $100.

The National Panorama Single & Small Band Finals is sponsored in part by Petrotrin.