Steelband Month activities continue this weekend
Friday, August 9 2013
Steelband Month continues with a number of events under the theme “Education, Development and Appreciation”. They include “Defenders of the Pan – Bad John Day” and the seminar, Healthy Living, organised by Pan Trinbago.
The next scheduled event will be a march for peace tomorrow at 1 pm. The march starts from Morvant Junction, along the Eastern Main Road, up Abercromby Street, across Duke Street West, onto Victoria Square, Park Street (opposite Pan Trinbago’s Head Offices).
Pan Trinbago has invited the pan membership and members of the public to come out and support its march for peace.
Tomorrow evening members of the fraternity will also take part in Arima Fest in the Eastern borough.
Several other fringe activities hosted by the regions include Renegades Boat Ride VII and Pan Night (August 11 and 16), Northern Region’s “Back In Times” (August 11), “Skiffle in Concert” at Queen’s Hall (August 17), and CAL Invaders Versatility Concert at NAPA, Port-of-Spain, (August 22).
“Defenders of the Pan” will feature steelpan stalwarts reminiscing and sharing their experiences of the days of old. Here the audience receives insights into the history of steelpan and the steelpan movement, most of which are locked away in the minds of the diminishing few. This event is carded for Wednesday (August 14) at the Renegades Pan Theatre, Charlotte Street, Port-of-Spain, from 7 pm.
One of the new events is the seminar on Healthy Living at the Port-of-Spain City Hall Auditorium, Knox Street, Port-of-Spain, at 8 am on August 21.
The next “big” event in the month-long programme is Pan On De Avenue hosted by the Woodbrook Community Association and Councillor Cleveland Garcia. Approximately 30 steelbands will parade along Ariapita Avenue in a westerly direction from Colville Street to Taylor Street, Woodbrook, on Saturday August 24, from 5 pm.
Last Sunday, members of the steelband association, friends and well wishers joined with the steelband body at an Inter-Faith Service and Blessing of the Flags at the St Joseph’s Convent Chapel.
Other coming events listed are Melodians Steelband Anniversary, Bellamy Street, Arima, (August 25), South Central Region’s Independence Dance on the eve of Independence at Palm’s Club, Pointe Pierre Road, San Fernando, with the second in the series of informative seminars, titled “Pan, Patent and Progress” at NALIS, Abercromby Street, Port-of-Spain, on Friday August 30. Starting time is 1 pm.
Carib Woodbrook Playboyz, White Oak Starlift and CAL Invaders will each be holding their annual Independence Day Brunch at their respective panyards on August 31.
The programme culminates on Sunday September 1 with an Independence Fiesta along Tragerate Road featuring Desperadoes, Invaders, Exodus, Phase II, Starlift and Renegades. This event starts at 4 pm.
Events on the calendar are:
August 10: 1 pm, March For Peace, from Morvant Junction, along EMR, up Abercromby St, across Duke St West, then to Victoria Square (opposite Pan Trinbago Head office)
August 10: 6 pm, Arima Fest, Hollis Avenue and Queen Street, Arima
August 11: 9 am, Bp Renegades Boat Ride VIII, Pier 2, Chaguaramas
August 14: 7 pm, Bad John Day – “Defenders of the Pan,” Bp Renegades Pan Theatre, Charlotte Street, Port-of-Spain.
August 16: 8 pm, Pan Night, Bp Renegades Pan Theatre, Charlotte Street, Port-of-Spain
August 17: 9 pm, Northern Region “Back In Times,” Carib Woodbrook Playboyz Pan Theatre, Tragarete Rd, PoS
August 17: 7 pm, Skiffle In Concert, Queen’s Hall, Port-of-Spain
August 18: 10 am, Eddie Hart Football League Opening, Eddie Hart Grounds, Eastern Main Road, Tacarigua
August 21: 8 am, Seminar – Healthy Living, Port-of-Spain City Hall Auditorium, Knox Street, Port-of-Spain
August 22: 7.30 pm, Versatility Concert featuring CAL Invaders Steel Orchestra, NAPA, Queen’s Park West, Port-of-Spain
August 24: 5 pm, Pan On D Avenue, Belle Smythe Street to Colville Street, Woodbrook
August 25: 8 pm, Melodians Steelband Anniversary, Melodians Pan Theatre, Bellamy Street, Arima
August 30: 10 am, Seminar – Pan Patent and Progress, NALIS
August 30: 8 pm, South/Central Independence Dance, Palms Club, Point-a-Pierre Road, San Fernando
August 31: 7 am, Brunch, Carib Woodbrook Playboyz Pan Theatre, Tragarete Road, Port-of- Spain
August 31: 7 am, Brunch, White Oak Starlift Pan Theatre, 1 Mucurapo Road, Port-of-Spain
August 31: 7 am, Brunch, CAL Invaders Pan Theatre, Tragarete Road, Port-of-Spain
September 1: 4 pm, Independence Fiesta featuring Desperadoes, Invaders, Exodus, Phase II, Starlift, Renegades, Tragarete Road, Port-of-Spain.