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Atlanta welcomes 38th Annual Caribbean Carnival with focus on Trinidad and Tobago

Atlanta embraces the spirit of the Caribbean as the 38th Annual Atlanta Caribbean Carnival unfolds in a spectacular display of music, masquerade, and multicultural unity. …
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Grenada to allow hosting of cultural activities during carnival period

Although Spicemas Corporation, the main organiser of Grenada Carnival, will not be presenting the festival this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the government...

Notting Hill Carnival off the road in 2021 – official

London’s premier annual outdoor event, Notting Hill Carnival, will not take place on the streets of west London this year, the organiser announced in...

Notting Hill Carnival decision delayed

The fate of Notting Hill Carnival 2021 hangs in the balance, as the organiser pulled back from deciding whether to hold the event on...

Uncertain forecast for UK’s summer carnivals

After a year in which almost every carnival, music festival and village fete was cancelled, it was hoped that the successful vaccine rollout would...

Nottingham Carnival 2021 – Ready, Set, Go!

Organisers of the much-loved Nottingham Carnival are planning to hold this year's event on Sunday 22 August at the Victoria Embankment. The decision came...

Miami Carnival 2021 set to open on Columbus Day Weekend

Miami Carnival is set to return in October this year. After a year of hiatus, Miami-Broward One Carnival Host Committee in partnership with the...
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Barking & Dagenham Carnival 2021

The Barking & Dagenham Carnival has been running for seven years, but this year on Saturday 10 July 2021, it will take on a...

Reading Carnival goes virtual on May Bank Holiday

With the pandemic still a cause for concern, Reading Carnival is going virtual this year. For its 44th year, it will appear online tomorrow,...

2021 Atlanta Dekalb Caribbean Carnival postponed

A continuing surge of Covid-19 cases locally has forced organisers to postpone the 32nd Atlanta DeKalb Caribbean Carnival. The Atlanta Carnival Bandleaders Council and Atlanta...

National Children’s Carnival Week returns

With Carnival season approaching in the UK, the Isle of Wight is gearing up for the return of National Children’s Carnival Week after a...

J’Ouvert comes to BBC Four’s Lights Up season

The play J’Ouvert premiered at Theatre503 in Battersea, South London, in 2019. It tells the story of two friends, Nadine and Jade, who must...

Notting Hill Carnival Ltd keeps faith with Ansel Wong

Notting Hill Carnival organiser NHCL has affirmed in a statement to Soca News that it will not be taking any action against Board member...

Cape Town Carnival 2022: Anticipate

The next instalment of Cape Town Carnival has been moved to summer 2022 because of Covid-19 restrictions. South Africa’s popular Cape Town Carnival is normally...

St Paul’s Carnival cancelled again

Bristol’s biggest carnival, traditionally held on the first Saturday in July, has been cancelled the second year in a row due to the Covid-19...

Jamaica Carnival 2021 cancelled!

Jamaica Carnival road march, which had been scheduled for Sunday 11  April, 2021, will not now go ahead, tourism minister Edmund Bartlett announced recently. In...
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Grenada Carnival 2021 falls victim to Covid a second time

For the second year in a row, Grenada Carnival or Spice Mas as it is more affectionately known has been cancelled due to the...

Cape Town Carnival postponed but creativity goes online

There will be no Cape Town Carnival this month. South Africa’s eagerly anticipated carnival, which had been scheduled for Saturday 20 March, has been...

Notting Hill Carnival responds to Carnival 2021 inquiries

“No earlier than 21 June.” According to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, that’s the first date that we can hope to see an end of...

Hackney Carnival 2021 will go virtual for a second year

Scheduled to be held on Sunday 12 September, Hackney Carnival will once again go virtual. This year will be the second in a row...

Talented Girl Gengen Wins Vibes With Voicey Soca Star FINAL

On Trinidad Carnival, Thursday 11 February 2021, 40.6k soca fans from all over the world joined Voice The Artiste Instagram live broadcast for the...

Digicel builds stage to host its Virtual Together as One Concert

Award-winning telecommunications service provider, Digicel, has built a mini stage at Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain to host its Together as One Concert...

Are you ready to Lavway?

Feeling blue without T&T Carnival in 2021? Help is at hand – in your hand, in fact. Use it to grab your phone, tablet,...

Farmer Nappy is The Monarch for Carnival 2021

A pre-recorded ISM’s The Monarch was broadcast last evening, Friday 12 February on TV6 in Trinidad, and for international viewers via the TV6 ...

Nadia Batson’s Artform 3 was special

Nadia Batson has been a consistent performer on the Trinidad soca scene, giving us hits such as So Long, Kiss and Fattt. On Wednesday 3...
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Kes The Band IzWE featuring Etienne Charles and the Laventille Rhythm...

IzWE is the latest 2021 soca release from Kes the Band and features fellow Trinidad musician  Etienne Charles and Laventille Rhythm Section. IzWe is...

Click online for Trinidad Carnival Road March 2021

There’s surely no need to mention why there’s no physical Road March this year in T&T. But in true Trini style the show goes...

Sobers celebrates her father – Joe Cool

Stacey Sobers has been keeping busy in the midst of the global pandemic. The three-time National Calypso Monarch Finalist has kept calypso alive with...

Kes The Band to showcase Soca, Calypso and Trinbagonian culture

Kes The Band is to host and market IzWE, a series of scaled-down live concerts. The socially distanced concerts, which will comply with all...

UnCrowned QUEENS a virtual musical concert for Trinidad Carnival...

Warrior Empress in partnership with Music Mill Studios presents UnCrowned QUEENS this coming Friday 5 February. Uncrowned QUEENS is a virtual musical concert featuring some of Trinidad and Tobago’s most promising female calypsonians.

Former Trinidad Calypso Monarch Singing Sandra has passed away

The calypso/soca fraternity was plunged in to mourning earlier today with the news on the passing of former, twice-crowned Trinidad Calypso Monarch Singing Sandra...
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