The National Newspaper of St. Vincent and the Grenadines
FRIDAY,
JULY 01, 2016
VOLUME 110, No.27
The Junior Sea Operations Starlift Steel Orchestra into their winning rendition.
their first to date. GHS appeared second on THE GIRLS’ HIGH SCHOOL and the afternoon’s programme, Sea Operations Starlift Steel and performed a Johnny ‘JP’ Orchestra successfully defended Pompey’s arrangement of D their respective titles in this Rebels’ hit ‘Musical Ride’. year’s VINLEC Junior Panorama Second place went to C.W. Competition, held on Sunday Prescod Primary School, 26th at Victoria Park. former back-to-back winners (2012 and 2013), with their Schools Bands rendition of Touch’s ‘Back Off’, under the guidance of A five-time winner going conductor and arranger into Sunday’s school-based Kesslon ‘Taffa’ Wilson. orchestras category, the GHS, St. Joseph’s Convent with a complement of 45 Kingstown completed a repeat players, added another to their in the order of placements in tally, and in the process the 2015 competition, when recorded a hattrick of wins, they took third spot, rendering by KENVILLE HORNE
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The Girls’ High School on their way to a hat trick of wins.
an interpretation of Tommy T’s ‘Tabanca’. The other bands in the category were South Rivers Methodist School Future Stars, Troumaca Government School, Marriaqua Government School and Sandy Bay Secondary School.
Wilson and D Rebels, and arranged by Kingsley ‘Hero’ Roberts. This was Starlift’s fourth win on the trot (2013-2016), a feat previously accomplished by their arch rivals, Sion Hill Euphonium (2009 — 2012). They were relegated to third position, when they were displaced by Symphonix Steel Community bands Orchestra, who copped the second position, their highest In the Community-based rank to date, playing a Bands Category, Sea Jomorro Francis’ arrangement Operations Starlift were of Touch’s ‘Bring yo Waistline resounding in their victory. Their 50 players revelled in and Come’. a rendition of ‘Pan in me Soca’, Sion Hill’s third place was a song credited to Ulrick achieved from the hands of
some 70 players, rendering a Tilal Webb’s arrangement of ‘Join the Line and Wine’, made popular by Otis Tesheira. Power House Sion Hill, with the biggest band in the competition, had to settle for the 3rd position. The band, with its large following seemed confident of a victory. Their 70 strong played the popular hit by Otis Tesheira, “Join the Line and Wine”, arranged by Tilal Webb. The other bands in this Category were The New Dimension Steel Orchestra and Genesis Steel Orchestra.