Beenie Man, Bounty Killer perform for Fully Loaded music festival
Published: Thursday, May 11, 2017Get ready this Saturday for the first Fully Loaded Music Festival, a new one-day dancehall, reggae and soca music festival. The event, this year, highlights the golden...
View ArticleDeveloping Caribbean film culture
...UWI Film Programme embarks on exciting second decadePublished: Thursday, May 18, 2017The UWI Film Programme, which currently offers the only stand-alone film degrees in Film Production and Film...
View ArticleBlaxx, Starr George: Beware devils in sheep’s clothing
Published: Thursday, June 1, 2017A new soca song with a decidedly dub-influenced beat, the song Beware is a catchy, upbeat, urgent warning song aimed at young people in poor circumstances tempted to...
View ArticleThe lighter side of music
Peter Ray BloodPublished: Thursday, June 22, 2017Nigel Ferreira began playing the guitar at age 14. In 1976, together with friends, he formed the very popular five-member group Colonel & Company,...
View ArticleHard to get foreign $ to pay international acts
...but local acts may benefitPeter Ray BloodPublished: Wednesday, July 26, 2017Randy Glasgow Productions’ (RGP) chief cook and bottle washer believes that mega international summer concerts are a thing...
View ArticleEtienne Charles returns to T&T for Emancipation show
Published: Thursday, July 27, 2017Acclaimed Jazz trumpeter Etienne Charles will return to Trinidad and Tobago on June 29 for three Emancipation shows.The shows will feature music inspired by the...
View ArticleQRC Fete Royal says Cheers to 5
MX Prime, Kes, Destra go to the colPublished: Monday, January 22, 2018The Queen’s Royal College Old Boys’ Association (OBA), QRC PTA and the Management Team of the College will be hosting the fifth...
View ArticlePower soca to make feet stomp for carnival
Published: Tuesday, January 30, 2018Caught up in the year-to-year grind, too many have forgotten the true owners of Carnival…the people.Masqueraders have missed Power Soca and have raised their voices...
View ArticleTTFF, Canadian High Commission team up for human rights
Published: Friday, March 2, 2018The trinidad+tobago film festival (ttff ) and Canadian High Commission are teaming up to encouragethe making of local short films on human rights issues, as part of a...
View ArticleA weekend of music, colour
Peter Ray BloodPublished: Friday, March 2, 2018PulseEverybody Loves Raymond tomorrow nightLast Friday, I made a monumental error by stating that Everybody Loves Raymond (ELR) would have been held last...
View ArticleHere’s My Heart to feature talented artistes, groups
Published: Friday, April 13, 2018Amadi Productions will be holding its annual concert titled Here’s My Heart in two parts: Saturday, April 14 at 8 pm (over 21) and Sunday, April 15, at 5 pm (under 21),...
View ArticlePlymouth community starts Jazz in Tobago
Published: Wednesday, April 25, 2018The highly anticipated 2018 Jazz experience in Tobago has started. Community-based organisation Plymouth Bethesda Heritage Development Foundation (PBHDF) was first...
View ArticleJazz in the capital
Published: Wednesday, April 25, 2018The Ministry of Community Development, Culture and the Arts will be hosting two jazz concerts tomorrow. The first concert will be the second edition of the...
View ArticleMusic music everywhere ...at home and abroad
Peter Ray BloodPublished: Friday, April 27, 2018PulseChampion in the spotlightThousands of pan lovers converged on Ariapita Avenue, Woodbrook, last Sunday for the premiere of the Live Music District,...
View ArticlePan lovers feast on tasty musical diet
Published: Friday, April 27, 2018Pan lovers turned out in their thousands in Siparia last Saturday for Pan on the Move, hosted hosted along the streets of the townby the Diantoic Pan Institute (DPI),...
View ArticleMCDCA serves up tasty jazz treats in PoS
Published: Wednesday, May 2, 2018For those who could not go to Tobago for the Jazz performances, the Ministry of Community Development, Culture and the Arts (MCDCA) gave them a day of Jazz with...
View ArticleA bit of this, a bit of that
Published: Friday, May 4, 2018PulseMark John, known in the calypso arena as Contender, celebrated his 67th birthday in fine style on April 26 with a concert staged at the Murchison Brown Auditorium of...
View ArticleFans pack Under the Trees for Rudder 6.5
David CuffyPublished: Tuesday, May 8, 2018Five years ago, at Rudder 6.0, staged at the Grand Stand in the Queen’s Park Savannah, Portof- Spain, David Rudder offered a number of hit songs from the past...
View ArticleBigford brings something big to Little Carib
Published: Monday, May 14, 2018“South people stake their claim on me,” Vaughnette Bigford likes to joke. “It’s almost as though they feel a sense of ownership.” And well they might, as the La Brea-born...
View ArticleStand for Love The Concert
...for David HugginsPublished: Saturday, May 26, 2018Stand For Love is a fund-raising concert by which all proceeds will assist David “Okee Dokee” Huggins acquire a prosthetic leg.The popular radio...
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