Ace arranger Pelham Goddard is excited about his upcoming concert, Echoes of an Era, at Kafe Blue, Wrightson Road, next Saturday. And it is not for the reasons you might ...

President Daniel Best is ready to deliver an encore. This follows a successful, yet challenging, first year in office ...

The beat goes on for Machel Montano, the man known to fans worldwide as the King of Soca. His powerful life story, captured in the dazzling 40-year biography King of Soca, continues to dominate global ...

The new two-day music festival will feature block parties and genre-spanning performances at three iconic Downtown Brooklyn venues. By Kyle Denis Summer may have just begun, but a new music festival ...

The first-ever Planet Brooklyn festival will take over the borough Aug. 23–24, with a mix of free and ticketed performances at Barclays Center, Brooklyn Paramount and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

It’s noon on Sunday, and the check-in area of the docked Epic Carnival Cruise ship buzzes with pre-carnival energy as I search for an outlet to charge my phone. Passengers fresh from last night’s Soca ...

Machel Montano, known as the “King of Soca,” reached another milestone in his long, storied career as a calypsonian. The 50-year-old soca great from Trinidad was named the Road March champion as ...

Congratulations are in order to Machel Montano on winning the Chutney Soca Monarch 2025. You, sir, won that title as soon as you entered it. And if he didn’t enter it, he would’ve still won because ...

Trinidad and Tobago, a twin-island nation in the southern Caribbean renowned for its annual Carnival celebration (3-4 March 2025), has far more to offer visitors than just massive parades. The ...

Soca icon Machel Montano has released a new album One Degree Hotter via Monk Music/Symphonic. Boasting high-energy rhythms, the 16-track LP ignites pure joy, freedom, and unapologetic celebration ...