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World Creole Music Festival - 25 Years of Music and Culture

The 25th edition of the World Creole Music Festival (WCMF) was launched Friday 4 July 2025. This silver jubilee will take place from 24 to …
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Carnival arts demand to be taken seriously

Respect for the Carnival arts was at the heart of a stimulating two-day conference at The Tabernacle over the weekend of 2 and 3...
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Carnival Arts Conference, packed with Pan, Mas & Calypso

After a disappointing summer for lovers of the Carnival arts, prospects look sunnier for autumn. October starts with the 8th International Biennial Conference in Carnival...
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Junkanew – A novel approach to sustainability in carnival

There is much talk about saving the environment, yet action is often lacking. Junkanew is a project that aims to bridge that gap in...
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Notting Hill Carnival – a potted history

Where do you start when talking about the beginning of Notting Hill Carnival? Few events have such a disputed history. By the time the Second...
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Notting Hill fires up its off-road Carnival

It’s another year in exile for Notting Hill Carnival, deported from the streets that gave it life 55 years ago. Where racist residents, grandstanding...
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Windrush Tales: ‘Windrush monument should be in Brixton’

At a well-attended Zoom meeting called by the Windrush Foundation on 16 June, the near unanimous view was that the government’s proposed monument to...
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Windrush Tales: The horrific story of Empire Windrush

These days, the arrival of Empire Windrush at Tilbury on 22 June 1948 is seen as a positive moment in Britain’s history. If it...
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Windrush Tales: Windrush Myths and Reality

Lots of stories have grown up about the Empire Windrush and its passengers,the so-called ‘Windrush Generation’, and sometimes it can be hard to sift...
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Windrush Tales: The World the Windrush found

“The past is another country”, they say. A traveller from 2021 who stepped down the gangplank and found themselves in 1948 – the year...
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Rebekah Murrell – in the Director’s Chair, talks J’Ouvert

J’Ouvert first came to our attention when it played at Theatre 503, Battersea, in June 2019 - and it makes a return this year...
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Miss Pat, My Reggae Music Journey

Miss Pat, the founder of VP Records, has released a memoir entitled Miss Pat: My Reggae Music Journey. The book, which is part-memoir and...
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Calypso Rose – an icon for International Women’s Day

Rose McCartha Linda Sandy Lewis ‑ known to millions as Calypso Rose ‑ is the undisputed Calypso Queen of the World. Born on 27 April...
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Claudia Jones to be honoured in biopic Claudia

Claudia Jones ‑ political activist, journalist and revolutionary – is the subject of a new film from acclaimed film-maker, producer and director Frances-Anne Solomon....
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IslandSlice Rum, born in Saint Lucia distilled in Scotland

You can take a man out of the Caribbean, but you can’t take the Caribbean out of that man. And so, when Sylvester Herman...
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The Caribbean Connection, The Bella & Logan series

Soca News spoke to soca lover Lorraine O'Garro, who is making tracks of her own in the publishing industry by proudly sharing aspects of...
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Carnival Fever is real

I do not need to live on campus, my character does not need building, it is definitely already formed thank you, I said to...
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Roger Robinson

In January of this year, Roger Robinson was announced as the 2019 winner of the prestigious T.S. Eliot prize for Poetry with his first...
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Modern day Christopher Columbus?

Josh Butler skyrocketed to popularity when videos of his dancing were shared across multiple Caribbean social media accounts. But recently, those same accounts have...
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From street to screen – Notting Hill Carnival comes to your...

A socially distanced carnival – what foolishness is that? We know the answer, of course: a microscopic bit of parasitic protein has succeeded where...
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So Melissa Simon-Hartman

This isn’t the first time we’ve spoken to Melissa Simon-Hartman, one of our favourite designers (and people); we last featured Melissa in the August...
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Dominica’s Bouyon Therapy

Music has been oft-dubbed therapy for the soul – and new meaning has been brought to that epithet in the Commonwealth of Dominica during...
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Reshaping Carnival for the age of coronavirus

By Vincent John, leader of DUKA Mas Domnik UK Carnival Band The belated cancellation of Carnival by Notting Hill Carnival Limited was no surprise, particularly...
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Below the line and beneath contempt – the trolling of Notting...

From its earliest incarnation, Notting Hill Carnival has been controversial. It’s the ‘Marmite’ of annual festivals. Indifference is not an option; you either love...
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‘A great shame’ – reactions to Notting Hill Carnival’s cancellation

We knew it wasn’t going to be good news, but the finality of it still came as a shock, a blow to the heart:...
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Notting Hill Carnival organiser under pressure as bands pull out

Notting Hill Carnival 2020 ‑ Go or No-go? That’s the big question carnivalists and others have been debating on social media since coronavirus lockdown...
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A passion for pan – a tribute to Frank Rollock Snr

The following article originally appeared in the 24 August 2001 issue of Hot Tickets magazine and is reproduced here, with minor edits, as a...
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Coronavirus shuts down carnivals across the globe

The future of many carnivals around the world is under threat as the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic forces cancellations and postponements all around the world....
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A New Journal For Carnival Arts

Studying Carnival arts will never be the same again. Research will be so much easier after a new academic journal dedicated to the subject...
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Maxine Collins, Entrepreneur

Maxine was born in Hackney, to Trinidadian and Jamaican parents, but spent her early childhood in Couva, Trinidad, with her maternal grandparents. Since returning...
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Avoid flu this winter

November saw the annual freeze settle in for the long, dark winter – and with it, familiar ailments such as cold or flu. These...
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