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Saving St James WeBeat
Jazz Beat and Pan Explosion make a comeback to this year’s WeBeat St James Live 2017. The return of these two events is in response to numerous requests from die-hard loyalists.This year’s edition is...
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Farewell to Mama Popo
Born in 1940, in Chaguanas, the Samuel Abraham I knew was a unique and humble man. On stage, easily recognised as the Mighty Brigo, Abraham was a one-of-a-kind act, combining all the components of...
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Laidback guitar man Tony Voisin dies
Having fallen on ill health in recent years, former Charlie’s Roots guitarist Tony Voisin, 64, passed away on Tuesday. The nephew of late parang queen Daisy Voisin, Tony was the dynamo of the Roots...
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The jazz season blossoms
This week has been a somewhat sad one in the field of entertainment with the passing of calypsonian Brigo (Samuel Abraham) and guitarist Tony Voisin on Tuesday. Nonetheless the “jazz season”...
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Lewis uses music to mould the next generation
Through Junior Achievement and his production company Renaissance, J Errol Lewis is developing future leaders. Now aged 62, J Errol Lewis is a much needed mentor to young people in T&T. The...
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Pet ambulance comes to Trinidad
From childhood, Marguerite Miranda has had a love for animals, including strays, a love that has blossomed into her Pet to the Vet Pet Ambulance service. Miranda, now 56, says: “Throughout my life I...
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Latin Arts festival hosted for Spanish language students
More than 400 students and their teachers are expected to attend the 2017 edition of Vista Latina, a Latin American arts and culture festival, hosted by Trini Tica International (TTI). The festival,...
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Dance world mourns as icon Julia Edwards dies
Trinidad and Tobago’s ‘first lady of dance’ Julia Edwards, 84, died on Wednesday in San Diego, USA. Edwards suffered with Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s and, bed ridden for the past few years, died...
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WeBeat honours Crosby
Since the inception of WeBeat St James Live in 2001, this year will be the first occasion on which the festival will be staged without its chairman, Earl Crosby, who passed away in August 2016. “It is...
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Coasting with jazz in Blanchisseuse
The hospitality and warmth of the people of Blanchisseuse is personified in Wabeen, the nickname a shuttle driver answers to in the sleepy north east community. He was one of many drivers of maxis,...
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Coasting with jazz in Blanchisseuse
He was one of many drivers of maxis, buses and other forms of transport shuttling patrons to and from Port-of-Spain to the Blanchisseuse Recreation Ground last Saturday for the inaugural staging of...
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New steelband body formed
On Wednesday, five of the nation’s top steel orchestras officially launched the International Steelband Foundation (ISF) at the Hyatt Regency, Port-of-Spain. The Company’s five founding steelbands are...
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Physics scholar off to Germany
Winner of a President’s Medal in 2012, Brad Bachu, 24, graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on June 9 with a double Major in Physics and Mathematics and a Minor in Philosophy....
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The lighter side of music
Nigel Ferreira began playing the guitar at age 14. In 1976, together with friends, he formed the very popular five-member group Colonel & Company, in which he was the lead singer and rhythm...
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Make way for the young folks
Head and Jacobs are two of these artistes whose musical careers are on an upward curve and they are both headed for greater things.Now 23, LeAndra is currently completing her first degree in music at...
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Start the mas...
As we move into the month of July, just the seventh month of the year, it is safe to say that Carnival 2018 has started. The first mas band to launch its presentation for next year was Jus Wee and...
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Music, music everywhere
The launch of Jus Wee and Friends’ Wee Taking Flight for Carnival 2018 a fortnight ago has opened the floodgates for mas band launchings through this month and into October. Next up is Harts, which...
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Youth taking pan higher
With most of the old guard of the steelband world in the autumn of their years it is now up to the youth to take the national instrument forward and upward to greener pastures and higher ground. Almost...
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Working with A Millien Concepts
Patrice Millien is a 27-year-old who wears several hats in a company she founded four years ago. Branded as A Millien Concepts, Millien is the company creative director, producer, project manager and...
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We could make it
Second runner-up in this year’s International Soca Monarch competition, Matthews died of a heart attack minutes after he began his performance at the band launch, held at St Mary’s College Grounds in...
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