Musical Showdown of the Steelbands set for Saturday

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It’s here!

The long-awaited “Musical Showdown in De Big Yard” featuring the Medium and Large Conventional steel orchestras takes centre stage at Carnival City, Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain, Trinidad, on Saturday February 26 from 5:00 p.m.

Eleven (11) medium and twelve (12) large steelbands will be main item on the menu in “A Taste of Carnival 2022.”

Staged by Pan Trinbago in collaboration with the National Carnival Commission,  “Musical Showdown in De Big Yard” is a taste of Panorama and J’Ouvert.

Medium Bands can play EITHER a Panorama-arranged song or a Bomb tune, whilst the Large Bands will perform both genres.

For this event, the bands were scaled down in terms of players with Medium bands fielding between 35 and 45 players while their Large Band membership range between 50 to 60 players.

After four days of intense scrutiny in terms of number of players, vaccination status and music, the selectors chose the following bands for “De Showdown”. 

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