The people of Trinidad live and breathe Carnival. A time of celebration, Carnival combines music and dance with elaborate costumes to produce a spectacle of extravagance and energy. People fill the ...

Most people overlook the gorgeous Caribbean twin islands of Trinidad and Tobago but those who holiday there praise the best sights, spell-binding scenery, marvelous beaches, charming and friendly ...

A legend in Trinidad, Calypso Rose closed out globalFEST with the sensuous, vintage dance music of her Caribbean home. Having recorded her early hits in the mid-'60s, Rose is a venerable diva of an ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the bossa nova, but let us not allow that occasion to overshadow ­calypso and mambo, two other types of music from the Americas that were considerably more ...