It’s a Carnival miracle. The blog title is a lie. The feud is over. Machel Montano and Bunji Garlin are together on one track and it’s fire! Heh HA! Fanism unlocked. I lurve eet! My friend Keegan Taylor, soca producer, stick fighter is one of the writers. I heard the song and immediately called him…
Despite a rocky 2 years, Destra Garcia is determined to produce a concert for Carnival 2017. The Queen of Backannal announced that we can definitely expect a Destra concert from her this year. If you remember, her 2015 concert was plagued by late arrivals, but was positively reviewed. Last year she cancelled her 2016 offering…
Patrice Roberts wants you to know that she’s a big woman now. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9ihFiC_OMw?rel=0] And Voice has released the video for his song Far From Finished. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojPxM54slHk?rel=0] All to usher in the Carnival Jumbie that Christmas and New Year’s Celebrations was keeping at bay.
Soca’s favourite winer boy, sorry Machel, has entered the soca arena. We featured the song before on this blog, but yesterday, as a present for the Carnival babies, the video was released on YouTube. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz-lR0UT7No?rel=0] A few years ago, Uncle Ellis was a Port of Spain sensation for dancing in front of KFC Independence…
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTQmMt7eqgQ?rel=0] Brand new soca parang for Christmas 2017. This one features many of our soca parang faves and was written by Jason Seecharan, Myron Bruce, Roland Yearwood and Mark Abouhamad.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mWyIlS8VmU?rel=0] I think that this is a first for Iwer. The Bum Bum master has released a soca parang for Christmas 2017. Enjoy!
Two soca songs created a bit of buzz this week. The first being from novelty act Uncle Ellis. Uncle Ellis shot to spotlight earlier this year for his now trademark dance, originally performed outside KFC Independence Square by a music cart. Well he’s capitalising on his notoriety, and has released a song for Carnival 2017….
Meagan Sylvester shared this on her page last September 2nd. It popped up in my Facebook reminder and I thought, that this is the best place to post it, because it’s such a great list of papers and essays on our music and Carnival customs etc. So without further adieu: Mason, Peter. 1998. Bacchanal? The…
