Immerse, Music, Trinidad and Tobago
By Caribbean Beat, Philip Sander and Attillah Springer ● Issue 149 (January/February 2018)
Every Trinidad Road March ever — and our top 10
Of the 80+ songs that have won the official Road March title at Trinidad Carnival, some are little remembered, some have become “back-in-times” favourites, and a few are considered landmarks — whether for their musical qualities or for trends they ushered in. Here are all the recorded Trinidad Carnival Road March winners from 1930 up to the present — and our picks for an all-time Road March top 10
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 149 (January/February 2018)
Trinidad & Tobago Road March Poll
Vote for your favourite Trinidad & Tobago Road March tune of all time in our mega-poll
Immerse, Literature, Business, History, Trinidad and Tobago
By Various Contributors ● Issue 144 (March/April 2017)
The Beat goes on: Caribbean Beat turns 25
Caribbean Beat marks its 25th anniversary In early 1992, passengers boarding BWIA planes across the Caribbean, South and North America, and...
Immerse, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago
By Various Contributors ● Issue 137 (January/February 2016)
Not your parents’ carnival
Look at photographs from the Carnival parade fifty years ago, and there are things that don’t seem to have changed much: the layout of...
Immerse, Culture, Music, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Mark Lyndersay and Laura Dowrich-Phillips ● Issue 131 (January/February 2015)
Bunji Garlin: send dem riddim crazy
From the mid-1980s through the early 90s, Jamaican dub, and later dancehall, dominated the musical landscape in Trinidad and Tobago outside...
Culture, Literature, People, Barbados
By Various Contributors ● Issue 125 (January/February 2014)
Trinidad Carnival: back to the future
“I don’t play Midnight Robber — I am one” The first time Fédon Honoré performed as a Midnight Robber, he forgot half his speech....
Immerse, Culture, Music, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago
By Essiba Small ● Issue 123 (September/October 2013)
Chutney Soca Succession
It’s fitting that the man who created soca music, by combining soul with calypso, was the one who also birthed chutney soca. Back in...
By Kevon Webster ● Issue 123 (September/October 2013)
Issue 123
EMBARK: Events around the Caribbean in September and October • Discover a new crop of Jamaican artists, experience J’Ouvert Brooklyn...