Toggle Sidebar Carnival in Trinidad: A Spectator’s Report with Photo Gallery Trinidad’s carnival is a mix of pounding melodies of calypso and soca bands, racy rhymes, steel drums and a circus of as many as 300,000 people dressed from head to toe in peacock-hued costumes that march and dance around the streets – or so Nadia Tyson tells us in this account of her experiences in Pasadena’s Star-News. I traveled to Trinidad and Tobago a total of three times in the past two years but never once to partake with the throngs parading through the streets during the much anticipated Caribbean Carnival.