Pan in the 21st Century kicks off tonight

The TSTT Pan in the 21st Century and Down Memory Lane steelband competitions hosted by Pan Trinbago received a record number of entries from bands in both the Conventional and Single Pan categories for this year’s edition.

Last year these competitions were taken out of the Carnival season and the finals were held on the Saturday after Easter weekend at the Queen’s Park Savannah. Due to the high number of entries, Pan Trinbago is now forced to begin the preliminary judging at the various pan yards or venues from today. Judging will continue until Friday April 11, 2003 at 7 pm each night. There are 43 Conventional steel orchestras and 39 Single Pan bands registered for the competitions from which 12 in each category will be selected by order of merit.

Two distinct panels of adjudicators will select the finalists who  will then participate in the grand finals to be held on Satrday April 26 at  the Queen’s Park Savannah. Pan Trinbago is inviting all pan lovers and supporters to support these bands which will render non calypso selections in calypso tempo. The defending champions are Excellent Stars Silver Stars Conventional and Angostura Woodbrook Playboyz Single Pan. Following is the judging schedule for the registered bands in both competitions.