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PanoGrama
''PanoGrama'' is a steelpan competition for soloists, created by Nevin Roach. The program broadcasts on CBC TV 8, CBC TV8 and other networks. It premiered on April 24, 2020, during the height of COVID-19 restrictions and lockdowns, to provide entertainment. The program attracts a variety of participants from across the Caribbean, the United States, Canada and Europe. The performances consist of a wide variety of musical genres – reggae, soca, Calypso music, calypso, Gospel music, gospel, jazz and others. Each participant attempts to progress to the finals and win the title, by impressing a panel of judges. The current line-up consists of Liam Teague, Victor Provost, Mia Gormandy-Benjamin, Ojay Richards and Andy Chichester. The winner receives a cash prize, and since the second season, a chance to headline a show Canada. Since May 2020 the program has run for a total of three seasons.The third season of the series premiered in May 2022 and featured five countries in the final. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steelpan
The steelpan (also known as a pan, steel drum, and sometimes, collectively with other musicians, as a steelband or steel orchestra) is a musical instrument originating in Trinidad and Tobago. Steelpan musicians are called pannists. Description The modern pan is a chromatically pitched percussion instrument made from 55 gallon industrial drums. ''Drum'' refers to the steel drum containers from which the pans are made; the steel drum is more correctly called a ''steel pan'' or ''pan'' as it falls into the idiophone family of instruments, and so is not a drum (which is a membranophone). Some steelpans are made to play in the Pythagorean musical cycle of fourths and fifths. Pan is played using a pair of straight sticks tipped with rubber; the size and type of rubber tip varies according to the class of pan being played. Some musicians use four pansticks, holding two in each hand. This grew out of Trinidad and Tobago's early 20th-century Carnival percussion groups known as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
