The Caribbean region is noted for a festive ambiance all year round, so the holidays always turn up the partying a notch. Every island has its own traditions with holiday food and music but Trinidad ...

Christmas 2018 is now history but for the twin islands of Trinidad and Tobago, their celebrations would not have been the same without Parang music. Even though the traditional carolers are around and ...

TRINIDAD — It is early December and already the air is redolent with the aroma of rum-soaked black/fruit cake baking in ovens and the sound of parang – Spanish-influenced holiday music – blasting on ...

Jerrod Johnson is the point of the spear of a new wave of soca parang music. Aptly, Johnson is known in music circles as Bongo Spear. The Palo Seco-born musician catapulted into the national ...

Think of the music of Trinidad and Tobago and the sharp report of steel pan drummers parading at Carnival is most likely to come to mind. Those rhythms and melodies are associated with the ...