After drilling the band on multiple runs through their Panorama song, Len ‘Boogsie’Sharpe sits back to listen to the band’s performance.

The panyard’s pothound, King, relaxes on a royal purple cushion in the quiet moments before a rehearsal.

The next generation. Young players practice at Phase II's panyard.

Devika Harewood (left) and David Ali rehearse their parts of the arrangement.

Pan tuner Roland Harragin works on an instrument. Along with Bertrand Kelman, he was responsible for tuning the pans for this year's Panorama. He works, here, in an air-conditioned and padded shipping container.

Pan tuner Roland Harragin works on an instrument. Along with Bertrand Kelman, he was responsible for tuning the pans for this year's Panorama. He works, here, in an air-conditioned and padded shipping container.

As players arrive for practice, they visit the air-conditioned container where their instruments are stored. Pan tuner Roland Harragin is at centre as Keith Maynard leaves with his pan.

An unidentified parent watches a practice in progress.

Phase II arranger and composer Len 'Boogsie' Sharpe strikes up the band in mid-January during drills for their upcoming preliminary round performance of More Love, a song composed by Sharpe with lyrics and vocals by Black Stalin.

Robert Thomas, an orange vendor at the yard, serves a young customer.

Phase II arranger and composer Len 'Boogsie' Sharpe strikes up the band in mid-January during drills for their upcoming preliminary round performance of More Love, a song composed by Sharpe with lyrics and vocals by Black Stalin.

Two weeks before the finals, judges visit the panyard to hear the band. Though they are not required to compete at this stage, a crowd has gathered to hear a competitive performance.

Two weeks before the finals, judges visit the panyard to hear the band. Though they are not required to compete at this stage, a crowd has gathered to hear a competitive performance.

An artist sketches the panyard as trucks leave to ferry instruments to the roadway at the Queen's Park Savannah to join the queue for performance.

The band's supporters help players to bring the pans onstage and to position them for the performance.

The band's supporters help players to bring the pans onstage and to position them for the performance.

Gabriel Assing, who gathers a crew each year to load the band onto trucks, puts his weight behind getting a rack into place.

Transportation crew secure the band's pans to the trucks that will take them to the Panorama semi-finals.

On the track, the band depends on its fans and the crowd to move the pan racks to the stage for the semi-finals.

Pannists wait on the ramp entrance to the stage for their turn to perform at the Semi-Final round of the competition.

Pannists wait on the ramp entrance to the stage for their turn to perform at the Semi-Final round of the competition.

The band's supporters help players to bring the pans onstage and to position them for the performance.

Terry Bernard and Danica Livingston quickly buff their pans before facing the judges.

Sharpe, impatient with the slow pace of stage organisation at the semi-finals, grabs a rack and begins pushing.

Len "Boogsie" Sharpe conducts Phase II through their winning performance at the Semi-finals of Panorama.

Ronald Mohammed (left) earns an admiring glance from Keith St Cyr as the band plays More Love at the Panorama Semi-Finals.

A week before the band will perform at the Panorama Finals, the Ministry of Works visited to pave the panyard, After the works, the band is moved back into place.

The band performs in competition at the finals of the Panorama Championships.

The band performs in competition at the finals of the Panorama Championships.

Gary Aboud works on dressing the band with cardboard hearts while the band assembles on the roadway outside of NAPA.

Pans are laid out and inspected before the band is assembled and organized to go on to the Savannah track.

Directly after the band's performance and during a radio interview, Len "Boogsie" Sharpe is greeted by National Soca Monarch champion Austin Lyons.

Band members pack away their pans to clear the stage for Fonclaire, who will end the 2013 Panorama competition.

Phase II players react to the announcement of their band as National Panorama winners, large band category.

A Phase II pannist celebrates the band's victory.

Hearts versus cameras as celebratory pannists cheer and chant with joy for the assembled media.

Errol Skerrit, Phase II manager (centre), faces the media after the band's win at the Panorama Finals.

After the Panorama Finals, the pans are carefully organized to be repacked into the air-conditioned containers where they will be stored until the next practice or performance,

Phase II fans gather at the pan yard after the band's winning performance to celebrate while trucks bearing instruments and racks roll into the yard.