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Ding Dong releases two new songs ahead of Tobago Carnival 2025 

Soca artist and DJ Ding Dong (Andre Holder) has released two new songs ahead of Tobago Carnival 2025, with plans for more leading into Trinidad …
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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 2020 cancelled

After nearly two months of speculation, and frustration, organiser NHCL has announced that has decided to cancel this year’s Notting Hill Carnival, due to...
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Derby loses its Caribbean Carnival to coronavirus

The annual Caribbean Carnival has been a feature of life in Derby since 1975, but this year’s event, scheduled for Sunday 19 July, has...
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Grenada and Statia lose carnivals to Covid-19

Two more Caribbean carnivals have succumbed to the bacchanal-eating virus that’s swept the world of most major cultural and sporting events this year. In Grenada,...
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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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Caribbean coronavirus round-up 

The curse of Covid-19 has touched the Caribbean relatively lightly, with the exception of the Spanish-speaking countries. Small island nations are able to control entry points such...
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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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Hackney Carnival concentrates on health

The 2020 Hackney Carnival will not be held this year as organisers focus their resources on dealing with the Covid-19 health crisis. The carnival, which...
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Antigua Carnival falls victim to Covid-19

Antigua Carnival, which was to have been held on Monday 3 and Tuesday 4 August, has been cancelled. Billing itself as the Caribbean’s Greatest...
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Get stuck into some Misbehaviour

Miss World has had its share of controversy, but never more so than in 1970. This was the year that ‘Women’s Lib’ feminist activism...
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Barbados Crop Over Festival is cancelled for 2020

Another major Caribbean carnival has been cancelled in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. On 16 April the Barbados cabinet approved a recommendation by the Ministry...
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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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Carnival seeks fairer treatment from Arts Council

The Arts Council of England (ACE), which for many years has been an important funder of Carnival, has published its strategy for the next...
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Notting Hill Carnival 2020 will go ahead, say organisers

The coronavirus pandemic has prompted carnival organisers around the world to reschedule or cancel, but organisers in London are determined to hold Notting Hill...
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Coronavirus outbreak started in German carnival

The Covid-19 coronavirus in Germany has been centred on the Heinsberg district near the border with the Netherlands, where the virus has spread more...
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Vincy Mas 2020 is cancelled

The loss of another Caribbean carnival to Covid-19 was announced today by the Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr Ralph Gonsalves. After...
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Leeds West Indian Carnival is cancelled

After more than half a century of bringing mas to the people of Yorkshire, the organisers of Leeds West Indian Carnival have reluctantly decided...
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Saint Lucia Carnival cancelled, but will return in 2021

Saint Lucia is the latest country to announce that its carnival has fallen victim to the coronavirus, Covid-19. The carnival, scheduled for Monday 20 and...
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Soca artiste Ding Dong wants us to stay Inside

Soca artist Ding Dong (Andre Houlder) has reworked his popular 2020 Trinidad carnival hit Outside to We Inside. The lyrics of Outside have been changed...
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UK mas bands pull launches as COVID-19 takes over

The calendar for March, April and May was jam-packed with band launches for this year’s Notting Hill Carnival, scheduled to be held on the...
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Cape Town Carnival cancelled

Cape Town Carnival has been cancelled, the event was scheduled to take place this coming Saturday 21 March. A message on the Cape Town Carnival...
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Floella Benjamin receives her damehood

Children’s champion Floella Benjamin, born in Pointe-à-Pierre, Trinidad, is officially a Dame! To be precise, Floella Karen Yunies Benjamin, aka Baroness Benjamin of Beckenham, today...
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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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Coronavirus reaches the Caribbean

The first cases of Covid-19 – the new strain of coronavirus that’s killed nearly 3,000 people worldwide since December 2019 – were confirmed in...
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Trinidad & Tobago – National Calypso Monarch Competition Winners

The National calypso Monarch competition is a yearly event that is held during the carnival season in Trinidad & Tobago. The competition is organised...
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Trinidad National Panorama 2020 Results

The National Panorama finals were held last evening at the Queens Park Savannah, Port of Spain, Trinidad. Here are the results:  1st. Desperadoes 2nd. BP Renegades, Massy...
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International Soca Monarch Winners – Groovy

YearArtistsSong2020College Boy JesseHappy Song2019SwappiParty Start2018VoiceYear For Love2017VoiceFar From Finished2016VoiceCheers To Life2015OlatunjiOla2014Kerwin De BoisToo Real2013Machel MontanoFog2012Machel MontanoMr. Fete2011Kes DieffenthallerWotless2010Shurwayne WinchesterMurdah2009Fayann Lyons AlvarezHeavy Bumper2008Shurwayne WinchesterPlease Star2007Biggie...
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International Soca Monarch 2020 results

The finals of the International Soca Monarch competition were held last evening at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain, Trinidad. There were 23...
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King and Queen of Carnival return to Dimanche Gras

The King and Queen of Carnival will return to the Dimanche Gras show on Trinidad Carnival Sunday night after an absence of two years. The...
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Destra releases Queendom, her 15th album

Queen of Bacchanal Destra Garcia released her fifteenth album, Queendom, on 15 February. The album includes the songs Me Gusta, Need Love, Daddy Reach, a...
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