News

No Hackney Carnival until 2024

In an announcement issued on 7 March, 2023, by Hackney Councillor Chris Kennedy, Cabinet Member for Culture, it was stated that a full Hackney...

Dunstan Creavalle - Sat 11 Mar 2023

News

ACASA to organise calypso and social workshops for youth

The Association of Calypsonians and Soca Artists UK (ACASA) is inviting young people up to the age of 18 years to participate in a...

Radeya Osman - Tue 07 Mar 2023

News

St. Kitts Music Festival, reveals its 2023 artist lineup

An initial lineup of 10 artists was announced last evening at Eco Park in St. Kitts for the 25th edition of the St. Kitts...

Joseph Charles - Mon 06 Mar 2023

Carnival News

Bunji’s Hard Fete is the 2023 Road March

Bunji Garlin’s Hard Fete has taken the 2023 Road March title for Trinidad & Tobago Carnival 2023. Beating back Nailah Blackman’s Come Home and Machel...

Joseph Charles - Fri 24 Feb 2023

News Results

Duane Ta’Zyah O’Connor wins Calypso Monarch title

20-year-old Duane Ta'Zyah O'Connor has surpassed 11 other finalists to become the winner of the highly contested 2023 Trinidad & Tobago National Calypso Monarch. Duane...

Radeya Osman - Tue 21 Feb 2023

News

Shenseea ready for doubles and Vibes With Voicey

Jamaican dancehall superstar, Shenseea (Chinsea Lee) is looking forward to "eating some doubles" and experiencing a slice of Trinidad Carnival again. Fresh from major...

Overtime Media - Wed 15 Feb 2023

News

QPid

Qpid (Melissa Moses) is a Saint Lucian soca artist, radio personality and fitness guru who is known for her melodious voice and her energetic...

Radeya Osman - Mon 13 Feb 2023

News Review

Teddyson John’s Stripped to become a permanent fixture

Teddyson John is still reeling from the success of ‘Stripped’, his first-ever signature event in Trinidad and Tobago. Given the event's success, hosted on...

Latoya Jones - Mon 13 Feb 2023

News

Eight year old makes Chutney Soca Monarch 2023 final

Katelin Sultan has made history by becoming the youngest artist to ever make a final in one of the headline Trinidad Carnival competitions. Machel...

Joseph Charles - Sun 12 Feb 2023

News Soca People

Nadia Batson all for Caribbean Unity

Batson's collaboration with Jamaican singer, Romaine Virgo has been receiving rave reviews throughout the Diaspora and has been described as the perfect soca love...

Overtime Media - Thu 09 Feb 2023

News Results

Snakey cops Young King 2023 Title

Snakey is the new title holder for the 2023 Young Kings Calypso Competition which he won with Kenny Phillips' What Yuh Need Again Trinbago. This...

Radeya Osman - Thu 09 Feb 2023

News

5 compete for Miss Dominica Carnival Queen title

The 2023 Miss Dominica Carnival Queen Pageant is one of the national events scheduled to be held during the carnival season this year. The...

Radeya Osman - Thu 09 Feb 2023

News

Refurbished Skinner Park ready for Calypso Fiesta

Skinner Park San Fernando, Trinidad, now boasts a new and improved look; the newly refurbished venue was handed over to the City of San...

Latoya Jones - Wed 08 Feb 2023

Feature News

Come Home for Trinidad Road March 2023

Responding to rampant speculation that the song does not have the required percentage of Trinbagonian input to qualify for Trinidad's Road March registration, it...

Overtime Media - Wed 08 Feb 2023

News

Grenada is 49 today

Grenada is a tri-island destination made up of Grenada, Carriacou, and Petite Martinique and is located in the eastern Caribbean. Just like many Caribbean...

Radeya Osman - Tue 07 Feb 2023

News

3canal comes ‘Outta The Darkness’ for 2023

Trinidadian band and leading proponent of rapso, 3canal are revving up to give their fans and followers an experience at their Outta The Darkness...

Radeya Osman - Tue 07 Feb 2023

News

Reinvent and Redesign Soca Monarch, says Kes

2011 Groovy Soca and 2020 Joint Power Soca Monarch, Kees Dieffenthaller says that the now cancelled Soca Monarch competition is a cultural staple, and...

Overtime Media - Mon 06 Feb 2023

News Review

Cash delivered on stage to Bunji for ‘Hard Fete’ repeats

Caesar's Army patrons whipped out wet TT and USD bills to pay performer Bunji Garlin (Ian Alvarez) to pull up and restart his hit...

Overtime Media - Sun 05 Feb 2023

News

Shaggy confirmed at IzWe and is working on a Soca EP

In a virtual press conference held last month, Kes The Band revealed the details surrounding the band's annual concert event, ‘IzWe’, scheduled this year...

Overtime Media - Sun 05 Feb 2023

News

Lord Kitchener Award for Steelbands

Pan Trinbago, in collaboration with the Inter-American Development Bank, for 2023 will host the second edition of the Lord Kitchener Award for Steelbands in...

Radeya Osman - Sat 04 Feb 2023

News

Beach House to pull out all the stops

Trinidad is fast becoming the proverbial flame surrounded by moths, as tourists and ex-pats fill the immigration hall daily in the approach to Carnival...

Radeya Osman - Sat 04 Feb 2023

News

Saint Lucia Carnival 2023 official calendar of events

Themed Nothing Sweeter Than That, Saint Lucia Carnival is promising a full schedule of events in July 2023. If you want to enjoy the full...

Radeya Osman - Thu 02 Feb 2023

News

A Team Band celebrates 10 years

In 2012, entrepreneur Zarin Morean and engineer Brennon ‘Val Musik’ Vergil came together to talk about possibly owning and managing a new live band....

Overtime Media - Thu 02 Feb 2023

News

DJ Spice pushing soca into the mainstream

It is no wonder that DJ Spice of TeamSoca intends to facilitate the inclusion of the soca music genre into the international music scene....

Radeya Osman - Wed 01 Feb 2023

News

International Soca Monarch 2023 in Trinidad cancelled

The directors of the Caribbean Prestige Foundation, Geoffrey Wharton-Lake and Ricky Ragoonanan, have announced that the International Soca Monarch competition has been cancelled this...

Radeya Osman - Fri 27 Jan 2023

Carnival News

Mas Domnik 2023 Opening Ceremony

Following the carnival launch on Friday 25 November, Mas Domnik held its opening ceremony, dubbed ‘Mas An Lawi’, a full-blown display of Dominican carnival...

Radeya Osman - Mon 23 Jan 2023

News

Blackman & Julius deliver ‘Song of the Decade’

Marge Blackman, daughter of the acclaimed father of soca music, Ras Shorty I, and aunt to soca songstress Nailah has written what has been...

Radeya Osman - Mon 23 Jan 2023

News Review

Love for Nailah at Sokah Origins Sokahchella event

Nailah Blackman is still reeling from the success of this year's staging of her Sokah Origins event. In its fourth year, the fete -...

Latoya Jones - Sun 22 Jan 2023

Feature Lifestyle News Travel

St. Kitts Nostalgia – How a Three-Month break became a three-year...

My first visit to the island was to attend the St. Kitts Music Festival in 2017. Never has a place left such an impression...

Rachel Ritfeld - Sun 22 Jan 2023

News

Antigua’s Gaston Browne re-elected

Antigua and Barbuda’s general election was held on 18 January, where the citizens of the twin island state took to the polls to vote...

Radeya Osman - Sat 21 Jan 2023

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Barking & Dagenham Carnival celebrates 10th Anniversary with Culture, Colour and Community

No Hackney Carnival until 2024

ACASA to organise calypso and social workshops for youth

St. Kitts Music Festival, reveals its 2023 artist lineup

Bunji’s Hard Fete is the 2023 Road March

Duane Ta’Zyah O’Connor wins Calypso Monarch title

Shenseea ready for doubles and Vibes With Voicey

QPid

Teddyson John’s Stripped to become a permanent fixture

Eight year old makes Chutney Soca Monarch 2023 final

Nadia Batson all for Caribbean Unity

Snakey cops Young King 2023 Title

5 compete for Miss Dominica Carnival Queen title

Refurbished Skinner Park ready for Calypso Fiesta

Come Home for Trinidad Road March 2023

Grenada is 49 today

3canal comes ‘Outta The Darkness’ for 2023

Reinvent and Redesign Soca Monarch, says Kes

Cash delivered on stage to Bunji for ‘Hard Fete’ repeats

Shaggy confirmed at IzWe and is working on a Soca EP

Lord Kitchener Award for Steelbands

Beach House to pull out all the stops

Saint Lucia Carnival 2023 official calendar of events

A Team Band celebrates 10 years

DJ Spice pushing soca into the mainstream

International Soca Monarch 2023 in Trinidad cancelled

Mas Domnik 2023 Opening Ceremony

Blackman & Julius deliver ‘Song of the Decade’

Love for Nailah at Sokah Origins Sokahchella event

St. Kitts Nostalgia – How a Three-Month break became a three-year...

Antigua’s Gaston Browne re-elected

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