Discover Trinidad & Tobago 2017 (#28)
Published every year since 1991, Discover T&T helps readers discover where to stay, dine, lime, party, and shop; and what to see (including the islands’ best sites) and experience (festivals, arts and culture, sports, and eco escapes), in both islands. There’s also a national calendar of events; info on getting here and getting around; tips for safe and sustainable travel; T&T history and society in a nutshell, maps; and more. For the second edition in the row, the magazine features a distinctive dual-cover design, with one cover for each island — Trinidad's Gasparee Caves (captured by Stephen Reyes) and a leatherback turtle hatchling in Tobago (captured by Giancarlo Lalsingh). Discover T&T is aimed at local and international explorers planning getaways to the islands — whether for an eco adventure, business trip, or beach holiday. For more: http://www.discovertnt.com • http://www.facebook.com/discovertnt
Published every year since 1991, Discover T&T helps readers discover where to stay, dine, lime, party, and shop; and what to see (including the islands’ best sites) and experience (festivals, arts and culture, sports, and eco escapes), in both islands. There’s also a national calendar of events; info on getting here and getting around; tips for safe and sustainable travel; T&T history and society in a nutshell, maps; and more.
For the second edition in the row, the magazine features a distinctive dual-cover design, with one cover for each island — Trinidad's Gasparee Caves (captured by Stephen Reyes) and a leatherback turtle hatchling in Tobago (captured by Giancarlo Lalsingh).
Discover T&T is aimed at local and international explorers planning getaways to the islands — whether for an eco adventure, business trip, or beach holiday. For more: http://www.discovertnt.com • http://www.facebook.com/discovertnt
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PARANG<br />
This is <strong>Trinidad</strong>’s Christmas music, with origins<br />
in Venezuela, and featuring instruments like the<br />
cuatro, box bass, and maracas, and lyrics usually<br />
sung in Spanish.<br />
STEELPAN<br />
This Trinbagonian invention, pioneered in Port<br />
of Spain in the 1930s, is the only acoustic musical<br />
instrument created in the 20th century. It’s<br />
traditionally made from oil drums, which are cut,<br />
tempered and beaten into notes — as distinct<br />
from the more modern iteration, the G-Pan.<br />
Carnival time is peak season for pan. Steelbands<br />
now exist all over the globe, from the US to Japan<br />
and Australia.<br />
AND SO MUCH MORE…<br />
Indigenous music is only the beginning. Some<br />
of the most distinctive groups include fusion<br />
bands 12theband, Freetown Collective,<br />
jointpop, Kin Sound System, and Orange<br />
Sky; the Indo-Caribbean music of Mungal<br />
Patasar & Pantar; the Orisha songs of Ella<br />
Andall; and the rapso of 3canal and Ataklan.<br />
There are also local rock, jazz, and raggae<br />
artists. Groups like the Marionettes, Southernaires,<br />
Lydians, and Love Movement<br />
present western classical, opera, and Broadway,<br />
and are particularly popular at Christmas time.<br />
Name-dropping<br />
Tony and Grammy winning singer/actress<br />
Heather Headley; Grammywinning<br />
singer/songwriter Angela<br />
Hunte; award-winning rap/hip-hop<br />
artist Nicki Minaj; and the late, celebrated<br />
performer Geoffrey Holder<br />
are all <strong>Trinidad</strong>ian.<br />
butch & allan limchoy, courtesy the marionettes chorale<br />
Curtain call for “Christmas with the Marionettes” at Queen’s Hall<br />
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