Carnival is ah Bacchanal
Peter Ray BloodPublished: Friday, November 22, 2013Edward Metivier, left, advisor to the Arts and Multiculturalism Minister Dr Lincoln Douglas, joins deputy chairman Don Sylvester, centre and CEO...
View ArticleTrini Revellers go to the Sultan’s Palace
Published: Saturday, November 23, 2013Masquerater Stephen Sabbnagin with Annastacia Gonsalves, left, Haleigh Lopez and Cindy Mills from the section Imperial Harem.Now celebrating its 15th anniversary...
View ArticleAlliance presents Gillian Moor
Published: Sunday, November 24, 2013Singer/songwriter Gillian Moor. Photo courtesy Gillian MoorIn preparation for the 20th edition of La Fete de la Musique in 2014, the Alliance Française of T&T is...
View ArticleThe Art of Bottles
Simon LeePublished: Monday, November 25, 2013Still from Temporary Horizon (2012, video), by Heino Schmid.Although you may well have admired the bottle-balancing performance ritually enacted on the...
View ArticleKenny Rudd remembered
Peter Ray BloodPublished: Tuesday, November 26, 2013Former T&T Guardian photographer Kenny Rudd, who died in Atlanta, USA, a fortnight ago, was cremated last Thursday in Florida, USA, and his son...
View ArticleDifferentology snubbed again
Published: Wednesday, November 27, 2013The National Action Cultural Committee (NACC) released its 2013 Top 20 calypsoes yesterday. The list includes Austin “SuperBlue” Lyons’ soca hit Fantastic Friday,...
View ArticleBollywood superstar coming for Chutney Brass
Published: Wednesday, November 27, 2013Sunidhi ChauhanInternational Indian singer Sunidhi Chauhan is coming to T&T during the 2014 Carnival season to perform at one of the largest events in...
View ArticleTrinity crowned 2013 bpTT secondary schools parang champions
Published: Wednesday, November 27, 2013Trinity College, Moka, gave a polished musical performance to capture the coveted championship title of the secondary schools division of the bpTT National Junior...
View ArticleLet the party begin
Peter Ray BloodPublished: Thursday, November 28, 2013Imij and Co a featured act at UWI Fete, “the original all-inclusive.”Thirty-two years ago, the biggest and most expensive Carnival fete to attend...
View ArticleFilm Company awards film, digital media students
Published: Thursday, November 28, 2013To encourage UWI and UTT students seeking to further their education in film and digital media, the T&T Film Company (TTFC) has consistently given financial...
View ArticleCharles delivers Creole Soul at the Little Carib
Published: Thursday, November 28, 2013The cover art from Etienne Charles’ album Creole Soul. Trinidad-born jazz trumpeter, Etienne Charles will return to T&T for two concerts at the Little Carib...
View ArticleRay Holman set to thrill with ‘A True Trini Christmas 111’
Published: Sunday, December 1, 2013Music composer, arranger and pannist Ray Holman will bring the production, “A True Trini Christmas 111,” to the stage, on December 7 and 8. The show will run at the...
View ArticleBunji Garlin wins Soul Train award
Peter Ray BloodPublished: Tuesday, December 3, 2013Bunji GarlinBunji Garlin won the Best International Performance category award with his hit single Differentlogy in the 2013 Soul Train Awards in Las...
View ArticleA master of pan jazz ramajay
Ray Funk and Andrew MartinPublished: Wednesday, December 4, 2013Victor Provost channeled his love of jazz into a love for pan. PHOTO COURTESY PIANOJAZZ.COMIf you were in New York City this August and...
View ArticleNaldinYo leads the way Taking soca to latin america
Zahra GordonPublished: Wednesday, December 4, 2013Claudio Jose Luces Smith aka NaldinYo, poses with radio personality Raul Martinez of Radio Azul 95.9FM after an interview in Estado Vargas, La Guaira,...
View ArticleH2O Phlo tells a beautiful christmas story
Peter Ray BloodPublished: Thursday, December 5, 2013The attendance at last Saturday’s premiere of H2O Phlo’s annual This Christmas—A Christmas Story concert, held at Queen’s Hall, St Ann’s concert can...
View ArticleBiggest Parang Soca Party
Published: Thursday, December 5, 2013The biggest soca parang and parang event of the season comes off on Saturday, at 7.30 pm, when the Kings of Soca Parang comes to the Arima Velodrome. This event...
View ArticleMusic students display talent on achievement day
Published: Tuesday, January 14, 2014Music Makers founder/director Merle Albino, second left, joins her young students on tenor pan at her school’s achievement day ceremony.One of the positive events...
View ArticleHyatt to highlight top soca acts live Las Vegas-style
Published: Tuesday, January 14, 2014Wendy Ann Garcia-Duncan, consultant, Event Managers Ltd, left, Peter Scoon, CEO, Media 21 Group of Companies; Hayden “Jungie” Francis, Fay-Ann Lyons-Alvarez, Kees...
View ArticleSweet Tassa band takes drumming to the world
Published: Saturday, January 18, 2014Ray Funk and Andrew MartinIn the last few weeks, a wide range of academics and others in America had a chance to hear and learn about tassa drumming from Trinidad....
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