Caribbean Datebook (September/October 2014)
New York Breakaway on the parkway You live in North America, but didn’t make it back to the Caribbean for any of this year’s Carnivals?...
Caribbean Playlist (July/August 2014)
Alive D’Achee New Jersey-based musician and singer D’Achee had a storied career as a percussionist and hand drummer for dance troupes...
Diamonds are forever
It was during the Carnival season of 1954 that a shy but ambitious sixteen-year-old kid from Rio Claro made his way into Port of Spain to...
Netwatch: Caribbean Summer
It may be off-season but it still sweet fuh so! The sensual contrast between sleet and snow at home and the warm breezes of the tropics...
Upbeat (July/August 2000)
PICK OF THE MONTH: Calypsoldier Ron Reid’s Sunsteel (Mud Hut Records, MH 901) Style and substance meet on this accomplished debut...
Bookshelf (May/June 2000)
BOOK OF THE MONTH For the Love of my Name Lakshmi Persaud (Peepal Tree Press 2000, ISBN 1-900715-29-5, 336pp) Lakshmi Persaud’s third...
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...
Martin Raymond: “go back to Caribbean music”
There were no musicians in the family, but while I was growing up in Trinidad there was a lot of music around. Directly above us lived John...
