Here Comes the Big One
MASQUERADE BANDS The masquerade bands move through the streets on Carnival Monday and Tuesday: up to 3,000 strong, portraying a single...
Upbeat (May/June 2000)
PICK OF THE MONTH 2000 Young to Soca Machel Montano (JW Productions, JW 198 CD) Trinidad and Tobago’s Prince of Soca announces...
The Barbados Fertility Clinic: a vacation that really delivers
Drive past the popular swimming spot of Accra Beach, with its colourful souvenir shops selling local leathercraft and woodcarvings, and...
What calypso means to the Caribbean
It was 1945, and the Andrews Sisters had rocketed their way to the number one spot on the Billboard charts in the US, where they remained...
John Paul Jones: turning point in Tobago
He was a Casanova with sea legs, and he charmed politicians and ladies from Europe to the Caribbean. In the Age of Sail, when one man’s...
Ray Funk: bringing the culture home
I never wanted to be an attorney when I was growing up. I wanted to teach English, at either the high school or university level. After...
Cedella Booker: mother of a legend
There is no doubt that Bob Marley got a good part of his charisma from his late mother, Cedella Booker. Bubbly, outspoken, but always...
Is calypso dying?
Once upon a time, calypso tents were considered the temples of Trinidad music. A major highlight of Carnival was a trip to a tent to hear...
