Culture, Music, Festivals and Events, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Attillah Springer ● Issue 174 (January/February 2023)
Vance Umphrey: “Living a dream” | Snapshot
American musician and educator Vance Umphrey on the love of steelpan that brings him to Trinidad Carnival year after year — as told to Attillah Springer
Community, People, Caribbean Diaspora
By Attillah Springer ● Issue 172 (September/October 2022)
A movement of Maroons | Inspire
Descendants of Maroon peoples in the Caribbean diaspora have been working tirelessly to be recognised as Indigenous. Attillah Springer takes us inside this important work
Arrive, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago
By Georgia Popplewell, Amanda Choo Quan and Attillah Springer ● January/February 2021
Carnival is love | Backstory
T&T Carnival is tradition and originality, ritual and rebellion, the sacred and the profane — and a million love stories. Here are three of them, from Attillah Springer, Amanda Choo Quan, and Georgia Popplewell
Immerse, Film and Television, Trinidad and Tobago
By Attillah Springer ● November/December 2020 • Digital Issue
Tony Hall (1948–2020) and Dennis “Sprangalang” Hall (1949–2020) | Icon
Attillah Springer explains the roles of T&T’s irreplaceable theatrical brothers in the ongoing struggle for cultural self-determination
Immerse, Festivals and Events, History, Trinidad and Tobago
By Attillah Springer ● Issue 161 (January/February 2020)
Kambule: on morning ground | Snapshot
Early each Carnival Friday morning, before dawn breaks, crowds assemble at Piccadilly Greens in east Port of Spain for a re-enactment of a key event in the history of Trinidad — and of Carnival itself. Attillah Springer gives an intimate account of Kambule, when the spirits of the ancestors are invoked in a ritual of memory, story, song, and resistance
Immerse, Culture, Music, People
By Attillah Springer ● Issue 155 (January/February 2019)
The Mighty Shadow | Icon
Attillah Springer writes a letter to T&T’s late calypsonian-philosopher
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 Philip Sander, Attillah Springer and Kellie Magnus ● Issue 132 (March/April 2015)
Word of mouth (March/April 2015)
Beat it Attillah Springer explains why Trinidad’s old tradition of the Good Friday bobolee remains more relevant than ever The Good...