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The Mighty Sparrow.

Grenada

TUCO celebrates Mighty Sparrow on 88th birthday

By Nelson A. King

Braata Folk Singers perform in September last year during the Guyana Cultural Association's Folk Festival at the Old Boys & Girls High School Grounds in Brooklyn.

Music

Braata Productions hosts Bankra Caribbean Culture Festival

By Nelson A. King

Fya Empress riles up picnic-goers in Vincy Day Picnic in Brooklyn in late July 2022.

St Vincent

DOUBLE CROWN

By Nelson A. King

Barrington Levy performs at a free reggae concert at Coney Island’s Ford Amphitheater at Coney Island.|Reggae singer AJ Brown belts out a tune during the concert at Ford Amphitheater art Coney Island.

Jamaica

Top-ranking Dancehall rulers thru the decades

By Vinette K. Pryce

Rejector urges nationals to "Use The Anthem" in competing the preliminary round of the judging of the Dynamite Calypso Tent at The Palace on Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn for Vincy Mas 2023.

St Vincent

REJECTOR SELECTED

By Nelson A. King

Flo Anthony

Music

Go With The Flo

By Flo Anthony

Members of Alma Moyo band, featuring Oxil Febles dancing (front). On drums Manuela Arciniegas, Nelson Cabassa, Ariel LaSalle. Behind Febles: Alex LaSalle and Ines Mangual.

Africa

Summer Event Series highlights Congolese influence in Caribbean music and dance

By Milette Millington

Screenshot of Angela Hunte sitting on a stoop with her friend on her stoop where she grew up in Flatbush, from her video in the NYC Tourism Local Legends Series, which was released on May 25.

Caribbean

Latest episode in NYC Tourism’s Local Legends Series spotlights Caribbean Heritage

By Milette Millington

Fire-eater performing at the Tropicalfete Caribbean Festival.

Carnival

CARNIVAL FESTIVAL

By Nelson A. King

Trinidad and Tobago Soca Star, Lyrikal.

Music

Trinidad’s Soca Star Lyrikal to headline 23rd Annual South Jersey Caribbean Festival

By Nelson A. King

Greg Malcolm, vice president and Controller, Colgate-Palmolive.

Music

Colgate-Palmolive joins Groovin’ In The Park as sponsor for the second year

By Staff

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Music

DoMo JOAT releases ‘NYC’ single

By Staff

New minister: Marion Hall, formerly known as Lady Saw, turned her life around to focus on church and gospel music, after she was baptized last December, 2015. The singer, once known for spicy explicit songs, says she is at peace with religion in her life.

Music

24 hours global salute to Jamaica’s evoluntionary music genre

By Vinette K. Pryce

UVOP President and Director Sophia Eversley, center, with bouquet of flowers, flanked by UVOP members.

Caribbean

UVOP ‘Praises in the Evening’ for Caribbean-American Heritage

By Nelson A. King

A photo of the exhibition at the new Louis Armstrong Center, Queens, which opens on July 6.

Music

New Louis Armstrong Center opening next month in Queens

By Milette Millington

Kranium.

Music

Chart-topping Dancehall Star Kranium drops ‘Vibes Weekend’

By Nelson A. King

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