Pan Trin­ba­go pres­i­dent Bev­er­ley Ram­sey-Moore says af­ter go­ing two years with­out Panora­ma, the first pan con­cert fol­low­ing the pan­dem­ic has brought a sense of re­lief in the steel­pan com­mu­ni­ty even though they had not re­ceived an al­lo­ca­tion as yet.

She was speak­ing to re­porters dur­ing a break in the steel­band con­cert Pan in D San­coche host­ed by Pan Trin­ba­go in con­junc­tion with the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion’s (NCC) A Taste of Car­ni­val, at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day, with 15 sin­gle pan and 13 small bands from all around T&T giv­ing it their all.

Ram­sey-Moore said "It has brought a sense of re­lief in the steel­pan com­mu­ni­ty. It's two years we've not been able to per­form for the gen­er­al pub­lic and the world.

"So when the Gov­ern­ment de­cid­ed to give A Taste of Car­ni­val, we mo­bilised the base and had 83 bands reg­is­tered.

"We've been go­ing through­out the length and breadth of Trinidad to do the au­di­tions.

Pan Trinbago president Beverley Ramsey-Moore.

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"This evening's first show is amaz­ing, with­out one cent be­cause we've not been giv­en an al­lo­ca­tion as yet."

She said the bands had put out their best; they played their hearts out, im­mac­u­late­ly dressed in their uni­forms and that was the re­silient spir­it of the steel­band move­ment.

Ram­sey-Moore said the pan play­ers missed Panora­ma, how­ev­er, be­cause of the pan­dem­ic sav­ing lies was the or­gan­i­sa­tion's pri­or­i­ty.

She ex­plained that they were not hav­ing a com­pe­ti­tion, per se, be­cause they didn't want to di­lute Panora­ma, it was a big event, like the equiv­a­lent of the World Cup and they were go­ing to give an ex­cel­lent taste of pan san­coche.

Ram­sey-Moore said that for her and the bands this was a much-ap­prea­ci­at­ed move and they were look­ing for­ward to the “Mu­si­cal Show­down in De Big Yard’' fea­tur­ing large and medi­um bands on Feb­ru­ary 26 at the Queen's Park Sa­van­nah.