Upbeat (November/December 1996)
Viva Le King The Roaring Lion (Ice Records 951002) Here’s an album that successfully combines vintage calypso with modern styling. In...
Upbeat & Bookshelf (March/April 1996)
Music Tales From A Strange Land David Rudder (Lypsoland) Since 1986, when he burst onto the Carnival scene by capturing every calypso title...
Island Beat (May/June 1996)
Tobago’s Heritage Festival In the early 1980s, while other islands promoted carnivals and crop-overs, Tobago decided to be different....
Upbeat (May/June 1996)
The Ultimate Party — Pump Me Up Krosfyah “Bajan posse! Trinbago massive! St Lucia and Grenada! Jamaica and Anti gua! We are all...
Bookshelf (May/June 1996)
The Autobiography Of My Mother Jamaica Kincaid (Farrar Straus Giroux, 1996) Jamaica Kincaid was born in Antigua and is based in Vermont;...
Festival Beat: the Drums of Carriacou
On an April night, on the speck of land in the southern Caribbean that is the Grenadine island of Carriacou, the grounds of Belair Park...
Beat People
Ready to defend his crown Barbados Crop Over 2002 belonged to Bajan soca star Lil’ Rick, who drove the masses wild on stage and on the...
The first Carifesta
The first Caribbean Festival of Culture and Arts, Carifesta I, was celebrated in Guyana in 1972. For the English-speaking Caribbean, this...
