Rock steady rules
Rock steady, the music that came after ska and before reggae, ruled Jamaica for much of the mid-Sixties. It was, by all accounts, a golden...
Film Reviews – January/February 2010
Master of the mas Jonathan Ali Will Peter Minshall produce another Carnival band? Since his last outing some four years ago, Trinidad and...
The gift of the past
The bag of negatives came to me as a gift of sorts. A slice of my past, hitherto unknown except for a few small prints in yellowing family...
Harts Carnival: band of the years
This year Harts Ltd will mark a momentous anniversary, having put out 50 bands for Trinidad Carnival. In a celebration of the ephemeral it...
Red plastic bag is a rolling stone
For the Bag, as Bajans affectionately call Stedson Wiltshire, almost every day is a working day. Barbados has a short Crop Over season in...
Derek Walcott: making poetry from nothing
Many years ago, as the Founder Leader’s motorcade flashed past a rumshop in Georgetown, Wilson Harris – the inscrutable magus of...
Carl Gabriel: from mas band to museum
In the last few years, the London-based Carnival artist Carl Gabriel has achieved international renown for his large-scale sculptures,...
Livvi Franc: babe in total control
There’s something in the water that’s contributing to the success of Bajan singers. That’s Livvi Franc’s laughing response to...
