http://www.pantimeonline.com Pantime Steel Orchestra Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:24:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://www.pantimeonline.com/pantime-arranger-amrit-samaroo.php http://www.pantimeonline.com/pantime-arranger-amrit-samaroo.php#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 18:01:40 +0000 admin http://www.pantimeonline.com/?p=16 The band’s first panorama was in 2001 when they appeared with twenty-eight players.  Seven years later Pantime took the stage with no less than seventy-three musicians.  But founder/band leader Cecil ‘Tortee’ Philgence noted that it is no easy task, as only three of the seventy-plus strong panorama side come from Gros Islet where the band is based.  During the panorama season, Philgence travels all over the island to drop players home late at night after practice.  Still, it remains a labor of love.  The band leader deals with it, philosophically shrugs and moves on, saying “I guess it is the tradition of the people in Gros Islet, they don’t really like steelband; they see it as something they’ve never been part of…  but I guess we’re only seven years [old]; but sooner or later they [players from Gros Islet] will come in.”  Pantime returned to the panorama arena in 2008, once more with Trinidadian arranger Amrit Samaroo, and performed Pan Baby with music composed by Samaroo.

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