Champion arrangers Len “Boogsie” Sharpe and Ken “Professor” Philmore yesterday called for foreign judges to be hired for future Panorama competitions.

Sharpe, who snatched a one-point victory from rival Neal & Massy Trinidad All Stars at the large band Panorama Final in San Fernando on Saturday night, said local judges no longer had the musical expertise to evaluate steelbands and it is time for Pan Trinbago to bring in foreign musicologists.

“I think it’s time that Pan Trinbago bring foreign judges to judge Panorama. None of those judges are active in music so if I come with a different chord or something, they wouldn’t know and that is unfair,” said Sharpe at his St James home yesterday.

Read the full articles written by Joan Rampersad and Onika James published in the Trinidad and Tobago Newsday by clicking on the links. http://www.newsday.co.tt/news/0,72672.html

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