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Wes­ley Gib­bings

When Re­pub­lic Bank Ex­o­dus took to the stage at ex­act­ly 10 o’ clock Sat­ur­day evening, it took them ex­act­ly sev­en min­utes and forty-five sec­onds, by the judges’ clock, to es­tab­lish its cre­den­tials as this year’s win­ning Large Con­ven­tion­al Band.

Be­fore a packed Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah Grand Stand and a near ca­pac­i­ty North Stand, the Tu­na­puna based or­ches­tra de­liv­ered what arranger Ter­rence “BJ” Mar­celle de­scribed to T&T Guardian as a mu­si­cal “pack­age of love.”