Vis­it­ing pa­n­yards for Car­ni­val 2025 was eu­phor­ic for me, and it all start­ed with the Pam­beri Steel Or­ches­tra.

Peg­gy Jugma­hans­ingh

I had been back home just a few days in ear­ly Jan­u­ary from the US—to be ex­act, Al­bu­querque, New Mex­i­co (a south­west­ern state)—when a pan en­thu­si­ast friend in­vit­ed me to go to Pam­beri’s pa­n­yard. A friend of his from France, Olivi­er Wiren, was on his eighth vis­it to the land of steel­pan and played in the Pam­beri Steel Or­ches­tra for the first time. My friend want­ed to see his French bud­dy prac­tise while tak­ing in the sounds of Pam­beri.