Steel Pan Festival

February
Queen's Park Savannah
Port of Spain
Tel. : 1 868 623 1932
Genre : Festival
Principal country concerned : Column : Music

A truly local event, the Steel Pan Festival as it is known internationally, or Panorama, which is the local term, celebrates Trinidad and Tobago's national instrument, the steel pan. In addition to zonal competitions held across the country, and preliminary and semi-final national judging, the festival climaxes on Carnival Saturday Night at the Queen's Park Savannah, where bands from across the country compete for the coveted Panorama title. Bands can consist of anything from 100 to 400 players resulting in a sound of pure ecstasy as the music fills the atmosphere and spectators become haplessly mesmerised by the pan rhythms. See "events" or "Carnival" section of website for yearly dates and details.

Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

With the support of