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Awesome Machel Montano February 17 soca and afrobeats and more Carnival show in Trinidad

I want to go to Trinidad for this awesome February 17 carnival show with soca and afrobeats artists . Saw Machel Montano do an incredible show @ the since shutdown Crossroads in Bladensburg once or twice & have seen a few of the others but not all. pic.twitter.com/WcqzQGA3Wz

— Steve Kiviat (@SteveKiviat) February 11, 2023

Flyer for the show in the tweet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cINEwJkzFSs

It's carnival season!

I'm loving both the amapiano version AND the soca version of Machel Montano x Hugh Masekela's* The Meeting Place

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJLkvKVkaMs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDDL_hr_n-c

*I know, right?!

Haven’t listened to DJ Private Ryan latest soca mix but a New York Times mention of it is my reminder to listen

Bunji's Hard Fete is the definitive soca of the year for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97bq9Kjmr3E

Yeah it's an instant classic that one

I’m not quite ready for that road yet, but I’m pretty sure I prefer the “N.M.G. Roadmix” to the original version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L91PtPvDgtE

IG is showing me an ad for Soca Gold 2023

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jun/22/well-play-until-our-teeth-drop-out-the-long-remarkable-lives-of-britains-windrush-era-musicians?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR3kxUo678ukrRMUY7Bs2J30fY_t-tsq0HO7KnPYt4qZL4yg5AG1DEgqhK8_aem_th_AV9d3cRWfGL5S8Cevm0MShCRgVjBJgy_qXP-X5xmiuTlOFWtpHd3hZ_jQP1AAACA-nM&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

Article is about Immigrants to UK still playing music and their legacy

BRINGING TOGETHER THE BIGGEST NAMES ACROSS THE GENRE, “CARIBBEAN MUSIC AWARDS” UNVEILS FIRST SET OF PERFORMERS
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ALISON HINDS, JADA KINGDOM, DEXTA DAPS, KRANIUM, NAILAH BLACKMAN, DING DONG, RUPEE, LILA IKE SET TO HIT THE STAGE FOR CARIBBEAN MUSIC’S NIGHT OF CELEBRATION WITH CONFIRMED APPEARANCES BY SPICE, BABY CHAM, TONI-ANN SINGH AND MORE
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REGGAE LEGEND BERES HAMMOND TO BE HONORED WITH AN ELITE ICON AWARD
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“CARIBBEAN MUSIC AWARDS” WILL TAKE PLACE LIVE FROM THE RENOWNED KINGS THEATRE IN BROOKLYN, NEW YORK THURSDAY, AUGUST 31 AT 8 PM ET
HOSTED BY 3x GRAMMY AWARD-WINNER WYCLEF JEAN

I have been sleeping on Ding Dong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UwKrek6gks

Have liked Alison Hinds for a while, still need to catch up on many others in soca world

Super Blue just did a late night, poorly advertised gig in DC area .

http://tt.loopnews.com/content/denyse-plummer-has-died-calypso-world-mourning-again

RIP Denyse Plummer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FKMW-9DvC0

Fallon “ What do want Santa” posted on YouTube a year ago ,

Actually “Wey yuh want Santa” parang

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/made-in-trinidad-screening-with-filmmakers-natalie-hill-adele-bertei-tickets-736828272197?aff=ebdsshios&fbclid=PAAaYNqTa_prkW7lQHewckmuceJztgcuNCJCslKBozXuWDr8zZj7v0tcoy5LU_aem_AZaL0mJ5NxVkkfOYJj8HOo9thpm0b32VA-6vLBd4Fycu-osMndTBS9uGNnEuAgwf50Q

Natalie Hill and Adele Bertei for a very special screening (1st in decades!) of Made in Trinidad
Made in Trinidad (First Screening in Decades! Filmmakers Natalie Hill & Adele Bertei in Person!)
The Philosophical Research Society proudly welcomes producer and directors Natalie Hill and Adele Bertei for a very special screening of MADE IN TRINIDAD, their barely seen, incredible documentary on Trinidad’s Carnival celebrations. Produced in 2001, their film toured the festival circuit to acclaim, but did not receive distribution – a casualty of the early aughts film industry’s unfortunate indifference towards ethnographic filmmaking. Now, twenty-two years later, PRS is excited to share a rare screening of this wonderful film!

That’s Feb 17 in Los Angeles for that soca in Trinidad film screening

Vivien Goldman article on the assassination of Trinidadian Rebel Sixx , who she first started listening to while living in Jamaica during Covid

https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/vivien-goldman-jamaican-bass-bad-mind

I still need to finish the article

https://www.bam.org/film/2024/one-hand-dont-clap?utm_source=instagram&utm_medium=social&utm_content=film-onehand-ig-o-post&utm_campaign=film

Restored doc One Hand Don’t Clap about soca and calypso showing in Brooklyn through Thursday March 14