Culture, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago
By Dylan Kerrigan and Nicholas Laughlin ● Issue 65 (January/February 2004)
Trinidad Carnival’s artists of the streets
The story of Trinidad Carnival is really many stories, and there’s no end of ways to tell them. There is the story of the 18th-century...
Arts and Architecture, Festivals and Events, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Dylan Kerrigan and Nicholas Laughlin ● Issue 65 (January/February 2004)
Harold Saldenah: the historian
Harold Saldenah, 1925–1985 In all art-forms, creativity balances tradition — the lessons of the achievements of the past — against...
Arts and Architecture, Festivals and Events, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Dylan Kerrigan and Nicholas Laughlin ● Issue 65 (January/February 2004)
George Bailey: the monarch
George Bailey, 1935–1970 “All attempts to get at the root of the Bailey magic have failed. Whatever charisma or vision or greatness was...
Arts and Architecture, Festivals and Events, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Dylan Kerrigan and Nicholas Laughlin ● Issue 65 (January/February 2004)
Ken Morris: the copper man
Ken Morris, 1924–1992 For four decades, almost every major Carnival bandleader sought out his skill in metal-work and costume...
Arts and Architecture, Festivals and Events, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Dylan Kerrigan and Nicholas Laughlin ● Issue 65 (January/February 2004)
Cito Velasquez: the king-maker
Cito Velasquez, born 1929 The only thing that remains the same is change,” says Cito Velasquez. “Carnival is always changing, and even...
Arts and Architecture, Festivals and Events, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Dylan Kerrigan and Nicholas Laughlin ● Issue 65 (January/February 2004)
Irvin McWilliams: the man of the people
Irvin McWilliams, born 1920 “To see a McWilliams band is to see an immense ‘action’ painting with the life of humanity breathed into...
Arts and Architecture, Festivals and Events, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Dylan Kerrigan and Nicholas Laughlin ● Issue 65 (January/February 2004)
The admirals: George Harding & Jason Griffith
George “Diamond Jim” Harding, 1915–1999 & Jason Griffith, born 1927 Traditional sailor mas dates back to the late 19th century,...
Culture, Arts, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Dylan Kerrigan and Nicholas Laughlin ● Issue 65 (January/February 2004)
The fun-lovers: Edmond & Lil Hart
Edmond Hart, born 1923, and Lil Hart, 1930–1991 “The Hart presentation is a people mas; designed to be worn like fashion, to make the...