As Guyana celebrates Republicanism with Mashramani and the 2014 Trinidad Carnival moves into high gear, the greatest calypsonian of all time, The Mighty Sparrow, is awarded Trinidad and Tobago’s ...
Rule Number one: Know thy terminology. Barbados’s annual Carnival celebration, which wrapped this week, is actually called Crop Over, a name that honors its history: The festival commemorates the ...
Soca music fans subsist in a feast-or-famine world. Feasts come during Carnival — especially Trinidad Carnival, king of them all — when the exuberant, dance-driven tunes are released faster than soca ...