More than 100 per­sons turned up to the 2024 East Port of Spain “Pa­n­yard Crawl” event on Sat­ur­day.

The event was an ini­tia­tive of the East Port of Spain De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Ltd (EPOS) in part­ner­ship with Pan Trin­ba­go.

Par­tic­i­pants from as far south as San Fer­nan­do and from as far east as San­gre Grande came out to par­tic­i­pate in the ex­pe­ri­ence as well as sev­er­al non-lo­cal vis­i­tors. They were shut­tled to four pa­n­yards in East Port of Spain: Courts Sound Spe­cial­ists of Laven­tille, Pan­de­mo­ni­um, BP Rene­gades and Des­per­a­does, where they were treat­ed to live­ly steel­pan per­for­mances and the gen­uine pa­n­yard ex­pe­ri­ence.

They had the unique op­por­tu­ni­ty to in­ter­act with tal­ent­ed mu­si­cians, wit­ness the bands re­hearse, get a taste of their Panora­ma se­lec­tions, and delve in­to the his­tor­i­cal and cul­tur­al sig­nif­i­cance of each pa­n­yard.

The ini­tia­tive was al­so an op­por­tu­ni­ty to sup­port the steel­pan fra­ter­ni­ty, as par­tic­i­pants were able to pur­chase de­li­cious food, re­fresh­ing drinks and mem­o­rable sou­venirs at each pa­n­yard.

Al­so in at­ten­dance were Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing and Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment and MP for Laven­tille East/Mor­vant Ho­n­ourable Adri­an Leonce; EPOS Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor Dr Deb­o­rah Thomas-Austin and Pan Trin­ba­go Pres­i­dent Bev­er­ley Ram­sey-Moore.

Thomas-Austin hailed the ini­tia­tive as one that al­lowed per­sons to safe­ly en­joy a pa­n­yard ex­pe­ri­ence in East Port of Spain, the cul­tur­al cap­i­tal of Trinidad and To­ba­go and the birth­place of the steel­pan, our na­tion­al in­stru­ment. She thanked all who at­tend­ed the event and in­vit­ed them to re­turn in 2025!