The vi­brant rhythms of Chow­tal Sam­me­lan once again filled the stage at SDMS head­quar­ters in St Au­gus­tine on Feb­ru­ary 28, as stu­dents from across the coun­try show­cased their mas­tery of this beloved East In­di­an mu­si­cal tra­di­tion.

Fresh off a string of land­mark per­for­mances and sold-out shows, KesThe­Band has an­nounced a ma­jor ex­pan­sion of its in­ter­na­tion­al Roots, Rock, So­ca Tour, adding new dates across the Unit­ed States and Cana­da while broad­en­ing its Eu­ro­pean run to meet grow­ing de­mand from glob­al au­di­ences.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Can­cer So­ci­ety (TTCS), in part­ner­ship with the Sco­tia­bank Foun­da­tion, is ex­pand­ing its an­ti-smok­ing and an­ti-va­p­ing cam­paign to sec­ondary schools across To­ba­go, strength­en­ing a long-stand­ing com­mit­ment to youth health ed­u­ca­tion.

A new chap­ter has be­gun for T&T’s cul­tur­al in­sti­tu­tions with the for­mal launch of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Al­liance of Mu­se­ums (TTAM), an or­gan­i­sa­tion cre­at­ed to strength­en col­lab­o­ra­tion, ad­vo­ca­cy and pro­fes­sion­al de­vel­op­ment across the coun­try’s mu­se­um and her­itage sec­tor.

Stu­dents of St Joseph’s Con­vent San Fer­nan­do (SJCSF) lit up the stage on Feb­ru­ary 27, proud­ly dis­play­ing their tal­ents to an en­thu­si­as­tic au­di­ence of par­ents dur­ing the school’s an­nu­al Open Day cel­e­bra­tions. With con­fi­dence and joy, the young ladies trans­formed the au­di­to­ri­um in­to a vi­brant dis­play of cre­ativ­i­ty, dis­ci­pline, and pas­sion.

Trinidad and To­ba­go-born, Lon­don-based so­ca artiste, pan­nist, and ed­u­ca­tor Trini­boi Joocie had the priv­i­lege, for a sec­ond time, of tak­ing so­ca mu­sic to the world-fa­mous Bahia Car­ni­val in Sal­vador, Brazil. This op­por­tu­ni­ty arose through a cul­tur­al ex­change ini­tia­tive sup­port­ed by the British Coun­cil and Not­ting Hill Car­ni­val.

For more than half a cen­tu­ry, the re­la­tion­ship be­tween bpTT and the leg­endary Rene­gades Steel Or­ches­tra has echoed far be­yond the pa­n­yard—res­onat­ing as one of the longest and most en­dur­ing spon­sor­ships in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s cul­tur­al his­to­ry.

The steel­pan is recog­nised glob­al­ly as a valu­able mu­si­cal as­set born of in­ge­nu­ity, re­sis­tance, and the rhythm of T&T.

Two weeks af­ter Car­ni­val, Rasi­ka “D Rani” Din­di­al is prepar­ing to rep­re­sent the red, white and black at three ma­jor en­ter­tain­ment events abroad.

The crack­le of fire­wood and the ris­ing ca­dence of chow­tal songs filled the Pierre Road Recre­ation Ground in Fe­lic­i­ty on Mon­day evening as the Pierre Road Ra­mayan and Chow­tal Group (PRRCG) host­ed its an­nu­al Ho­li­ka Da­han cel­e­bra­tion.

For the fourth con­sec­u­tive sea­son, dancers will push their lim­its in pur­suit of top ho­n­ours at a three-day dance fes­ti­val in Ar­genti­na.

Nicholaus Williams, known to the mu­sic world as Trinidad James, has nev­er been one to fol­low a pre­dictable script. The At­lanta-based rap­per, best known for his 2012 break­out hit ‘All Gold Every­thing’, is now lay­ing the tracks for his first-ever so­ca al­bum, a body of work he says re­con­nects him with his her­itage.