PAN A LABOUR OF LOVE

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00:00After several weeks of constant drilling and sleepless nights, two bands walked away with

00:05the Small Band Panorama title.

00:07They are Tobago TNTK, New East Side Dimension and San Fernando Golden Hands.

00:12Thankful is the word both winners used to describe how they felt after they won the

00:17National Panorama title for Small Bands.

00:20Kersh Ramsey, arranger for Tobago TNTK, New East Side Dimension and Vanessa Headley, arranger

00:25for Golden Hands, both agreed that Pan is a labor of love.

00:29Pan arranger for East Side Dimension, Ramsey says, he's been working with the band for

00:34a little over five years and has no regrets.

00:37Lucky enough, last year I was able to win and this year I was able to defend the title.

00:43I am so grateful and so happy to see that I had the opportunity to take the band from

00:50where they were and now I was able to take them to the top.

00:54I'm just grateful and thankful for that.

00:57The two-times Small Band winner says the only challenge he faced leading up to Panorama

01:02was picking the perfect song.

01:06I was just not capable enough to at least I could create a good arrangement to win.

01:12So the Rainorama, I chose that song the night of the launch of the Panorama.

01:20So I had about four songs, I had four options, right?

01:24And I didn't know what to choose at all.

01:27So I couldn't start my arrangement.

01:28I could never start.

01:29And then the launch of Panorama come in, Panorama creeped up on us and the launch of Panorama,

01:34I heard Renegades play the Rainorama on the stage for the performance and the crowd response.

01:40Listen, the way the crowd responded to that song, yeah, I said right away, this is the

01:45choice, this is what I'm going with to defend my title and yeah, Rainorama.

01:51Vanessa Headley became the second woman in TNT's history to win a national Panorama title

01:56when her San Fernando-based The Golden Hands Steel Band also won the 2025 Small Band's

02:01Panorama title with her arrangement of Lord Nelson's Me Lover.

02:05Stevie Six spoke to Headley via telephone and she told us that she was still beaming

02:09with pride and excitement, which she dedicated to her late mother.

02:13Yeah, I wish she was here to celebrate this with us.

02:17This is our second championship title and you know, it's a very bitter feeling, a lot

02:26more sweet than bitter because it is really heartwarming for all of us to know that we

02:35are able to carry on her legacy.

02:40One of the things that we see at Golden Hands is that we demonstrate pure Pan excellence.

02:45Headley says she was happy to share the title with Ramsey, but come 2026, Golden Hands will

02:50be coming in with full force to defend their title.

02:54Both arrangers agreed that Pan has grown a lot since its inception.

02:58They both thanked Pan Trinbego President Beverly Ramsey-Moore for her contribution to Pan and

03:03enriching its legacy.

03:05Charlotte Kisto, TV6 News.