Mungal Patasar: millennium music
“I am a musician of the world. India is my memory, Trinidad the ground under my feet, Europe my door to the world. My music is a gift...
Donna Symmonds: “what she know about cricket?”
“On the last day South Africa were 122 for two, needing only 201 to win, and there was this feeling, obviously, that the West Indies...
Bongo Herman — The Sacred Drum
Mi na beat drum, mi play wid notes. When oonoo beat drum oonoo beat woman too. Oonoo mek all type a noise. King David say fi play pon yuh...
Carnival Messiah: Geraldine’s Possession
To say that she’s possessed may not sound complimentary, but it describes the passion and drive that Trinidadian-British composer...
Considering Courtney Walsh
First ball. 80th over. At the crease, Australian wicketkeeper Ian Healy is on twelve. The bowler runs in. Healy tries to force the ball...
Spirit of the Americas
In a cramped room at the St Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies in Trinidad, amid a clutter of biological specimens, a...
Winston Duke: “I’m unfinished” | Own words
Tobago-born actor Winston Duke, appearing in the eagerly awaited Black Panther movie, on his love of stories and magical realism, how his village childhood shaped his ethos, and his love of soca music — as told to Caroline Taylor
Trinidad’s Road March | Backstory
Trinidad & Tobago’s Carnival is full of rivalries and competitions, and none is more fierce than the annual Road March battle. Mark Lyndersay traces the history of the musical title that reflects the will of masqueraders on the street — and we dare to share our picks for the top ten Road March songs from the 1930s to the present day
