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Immerse, Music, Trinidad and Tobago

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

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Music, Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad & Tobago Road March Poll

Vote for your favourite Trinidad & Tobago Road March tune of all time in our mega-poll

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Immerse, Literature, Business, History, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Immerse, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Immerse, Culture, Music, People, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Culture, Literature, People, Barbados

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....

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Immerse, Culture, Music, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Issue 123

EMBARK: Events around the Caribbean in September and October • Discover a new crop of Jamaican artists, experience J’Ouvert Brooklyn...

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