COUVA   JOYLANDERS

Panorama 2020
The Joylanders won their first National Panorama Medium Conventional Steelband title in 2020 playing "It's My Turn," the 1993 calypso which was sung by the late De Fosto. It was the first time the final was held at Dwight Yorke Stadium Parade Grounds, Bacolet, Tobago. The band's music was arranged by Stefon West who had spent a considerable amount of time prior to the final in Israel, as part of the US embassy-funded Peace Drums programme for Arabs and Israelites to come together using the steelpan. In 2023, the Couva Joylanders Steelband functioned on Railway Road, Couva, competed in the South/Central Region of the Medium Conventional Steelbands category at the annual National Panorama competition and placed 2nd.
Compiled by Ronald C. Emrit