Carnival Was Cancelled, But The Soca Hits Kept Coming
Public Service Announcement: Check on your Trininadian friends. Check on all of your Caribbean friends. They're not OK. Because for perhaps the first time in Caribbean history, that time of year has rolled around and the unthinkable has become real: Trinidad Carnival. Is. Cancelled. To understand the appalling gravitas of this situation, try to imagine the cancellation of, say, Christmas. Or, broadly speaking, the event — holy public ritual, really — that motivates tens of thousands of people around the world to keep on keeping on amid the daily drudgeries and mundane indignities of this ...
Source: publicradiotulsa.org