Festivals and Events, Dominica
By Simon Lee ● Issue 39 (September/October 1999)
The comic, the thief and the Commissioner of Police
I wasn’t too pleased when I found out I’d have to share my guesthouse room in Dominica. I was there to cover the World Creole Music...
By Simon Lee ● Issue 39 (September/October 1999)
The beating heart of Suriname
On the bank of a slow sliding brown river, Javanese gamelan musicians play the halting melody of the Jarakapang, or Horse Spirit Dance....
By Simon Lee ● Issue 50 (July/August 2001)
Mizik A Nou — the Caribbean music scene
On a July night, while darkness stalks New York’s Central Park, 12 men dressed in black shackle their hands with silver manacles....
By Jeremy Taylor, Georgia Popplewell and Simon Lee ● Issue 45 (September/October 2000)
Upbeat | Music Reviews (September/October 2000)
Pick of the Month Bring Down the Power by Ella Andall Ella Andall’s music is closer in spirit to the African protest sound of singers...
Culture, Music, Festivals and Events, St. Kitts and Nevis
By Simon Lee ● Issue 46 (November/December 2000)
!Viva el Caribe! Looking back at Carifesta 2000
It’s an August Friday night in the Leeward island of St Kitts. The previous night, Warner Park in Basseterre, possibly the best...
Arts and Architecture, History, St. Lucia
By Simon Lee ● Issue 42 (March/April 2000)
Potted history
Caribbean handicrafts — from canoe building to basket making, lace embroidery and vaudou flags — combine function, aesthetics and...
By Simon Lee ● Issue 41 (January/February 2000)
Bongo Herman — The Sacred Drum
Mi na beat drum, mi play wid notes. When oonoo beat drum oonoo beat woman too. Oonoo mek all type a noise. King David say fi play pon yuh...
Music, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago
By Simon Lee ● Issue 40 (November/December 1999)
Pantastic
Trinidad’s Panazz players Panshots take one: Derek Walcott Square, Castries, St Lucia. A scorching May high noon in Jazz Festival...