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T&TEC New East Side Dimension howled to victory at the National Panorama Small Conventional finals on Friday night at Skinner Park, San Fernando.The Tobago band’s dog barked loudest on an

T&TEC New East Side Dimension leads a competitive field of 15 steelbands into the National Panorama Small Conventional final this Friday.The Kersh Ramsey-led Scarborough orchestra holds a three-point lead on

I first met BC Pires in 1989, not long after he began his career in journalism. He was in his early thirties and making a name for himself as an

A few days ago, I awoke from an afternoon nap to the sound of Indian music literally filling the house. I was somewhat disoriented, transitioning from sleep to wake, but

Jazz pioneer Rafael “Raf” Robertson, passed away suddenly last Thursday night. He was well-loved and highly regarded as one of this country’s finest and most progressive musicians. As part of the Trinidad Guardian Business of Music series earlier this year, Shereen Ali interviewed Robertson about achieving success in the music industry. The Guardian republish it today in honour…

In the month that will mark the 23rd anniversary of Beryl McBurnie’s death (on March 30), there’s an exhibition in the atrium of the National Library to commemorate her most famous and enduring creation, the Little Carib Theatre. That now elegant and angular edifice on the corner of White and Roberts Street in Woodbrook officially

AS TOLD TO BC PIRES My name is Richard Bailey and I play drums! One of the musicians I played with was Jeff Beck, who just died. A lot of people still know me today from Jeff’s biggest album. I don’t go to work. I go to play. My dad, the athlete, McDonald Bailey was

DR GABRIELLE HOSEIN WHEN A giant passes on, all should pay their respects. So it is with Leroy Calliste, better known as Black Stalin. Mine is just an inexpert murmur in a chorus of bigger voices, but none in our nation should fail to recognise this elder, now gone, and his genius. He documented hardships

TERRENCE W FARRELL TT is renowned for its harmonious diversity. We are a people of multiple heritages, religions, ethnicities, united by our shared spaces, shared histories and shared values. If one wished to experience a particular aspect or element of our mosaic – Hosay or Ramleela or Shango – you could go to a particular

National Carnival Commission (NCC) chairman Winston “Gypsy” Peters wants around $150 million for Carnival 2023 in the hopes of making it “the mother of all Carnivals.”