Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions in Ch­agua­nas got off to an en­er­getic start. The launch took place on Sat­ur­day on the Ch­agua­nas Main Road with a cadre of lo­cal artists en­ter­tain­ing the crowd gath­ered in front of the Ch­agua­nas Mar­ket.

They were fol­lowed by Had­co Phase ii Pan Groove, 270; Massy Trinidad All Stars, 269; Shell In­vaders, 267; Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Skif­fle, 266; NL­CB Fon­claire, 264; T&TEC Trop­i­cal An­gel Harps, 263; Des­per­a­does, 262; NL­CB Buc­cooneers, 262; Nu­trien Sil­ver Stars, 262; First Cit­i­zens Su­per­novas, 261; Pro­man Star­lift, 261; and RBC Re­demp­tion Sound Set­ters, 258.

The Ch­agua­nas Car­ni­val launch took place on Sat­ur­day on the Ch­agua­nas Main Road with steel­pan, mas­quer­aders, a Dame Lor­raine, sailors, moko jumbies, and spec­ta­tors danc­ing to so­ca and pul­sat­ing chut­ney per­for­mances from Nishard M, Nel Ram­dass, Cli­maxxx, Sexy Shazie.

On the 60th an­niver­sary of Panora­ma, it’s a time for cel­e­bra­tion and re­flec­tion on the steel­pan, the play­ers and their bands, the arrangers, ca­lyp­so­ni­ans and those com­posers from the steel­band move­ment who have cre­at­ed mu­sic in this the great­est steel­band com­pe­ti­tion.

With ca­lyp­so tents now in full swing, a vet­er­an ca­lyp­son­ian is claim­ing her con­tro­ver­sial 2023 com­po­si­tion, Po­lit­i­cal Ceme­tery, is be­ing cen­sored by a ca­lyp­so tent.

Al­though he has pro­mot­ed his 40th-an­niver­sary con­cert on Car­ni­val Fri­day, One Show—The Meet­ing Place, as a “one show on­ly” event, so­ca mega-star Machel Mon­tano has hint­ed that fans may be treat­ed to “a few show-lets” and “show-ups” dur­ing the Car­ni­val sea­son. 

Hel­lo boys and girls, join us as we take you from the 1800s in­to 21st cen­tu­ry. Learn about tra­di­tion­al Car­ni­val char­ac­ters and much more. Best of all, you get to par­tic­i­pate in the Car­ni­val ac­tiv­i­ties.

Rap­so col­lec­tive 3canal kicked off their 2023 Car­ni­val cam­paign on Fri­day evening with the first in a se­ries of week­ly Back­yard Jam ses­sions at their base, The Big Black Box on Mur­ray Street, Wood­brook.

While COVID-19 cas­es are in­creas­ing, Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley says the cur­rent sit­u­a­tion does not war­rant post­pon­ing or can­celling Car­ni­val 2023. He how­ev­er said the sit­u­a­tion does in fact re­quire in­creased per­son­al re­spon­si­bil­i­ty.

Hav­ing prac­tised for just over a month, 50 stu­dents from the Pleas­antville Sec­ondary School en­tered the pre­lim­i­nary round of the 2023 Na­tion­al Sec­ondary Schools Ju­nior Panora­ma com­pe­ti­tion on Wednes­day.

The call came from Wen­dell Ever­s­ley, Vice Pres­i­dent of the Tas­sa As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T. at the time, Ever­s­ley was ad­dress­ing the 2022 Na­tion­al Tas­sara­ma Prize-Giv­ing Func­tion at the au­di­to­ri­um of the Cou­va/Point Lisas Cham­ber of Com­merce (CPLCC) ad­min­is­tra­tive com­plex, at Cam­den Road in Cou­va, on Tues­day night.

The Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion launched its Car­ni­val 2023 The Moth­er of All Car­ni­vals at the Grand Stand, Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, yes­ter­day with a pa­rade of tra­di­tion­al Car­ni­val char­ac­ters such as Pier­rot Grenades, Dames Lor­raine, Moko Jumbies, Jab Jabs, Mid­night Rob­bers, Go­ril­las, Fan­cy  In­di­ans, Fan­cy Sailors,  Blue Dev­ils, mud mas, pret­ty mas, and steel bands.