The Caribbean region is noted for a festive ambiance all year round, so the holidays always turn up the partying a notch. Every island has its own traditions with holiday food and music but Trinidad ...

TRINIDAD — It is early December and already the air is redolent with the aroma of rum-soaked black/fruit cake baking in ovens and the sound of parang – Spanish-influenced holiday music – blasting on ...

As in olden times, house-to-house parang is being kept very much alive by die-hard paranderos in the capital city of parang, Lopinot. While this tradition has almost become non-existent in rural areas ...

Have you ever had a parang band visit your home at Christmas? If you didn't, then there will be a great lack of joy and togetherness that a good parang session transfers. What is Christmas without ...

Think of the music of Trinidad and Tobago and the sharp report of steel pan drummers parading at Carnival is most likely to come to mind. Those rhythms and melodies are associated with the ...

Parang-smithing is something of a lost art these days. But the love of it has resulted in the partnership of an unlikely duo. The parangs by Ahmad Nadir Askandar, 43, and Chin Pin Yon, 79, are in ...

Parang and Christmas is so ingrained in Candice Corbie, she is now writing songs in her sleep. Known on soca stages as Candy Kay, Corbie dreamt up the catchy chorus line to her 2024 Yuletide offering ...

KUCHING, Oct 25 (Bernama) -- The traditional handicrafts of the Iban community, particularly the handmade parang ilang crafted by Johnny Berangan from Sibu, continue to captivate both tourists and ...

104 104 people viewed this event. An evening of traditional house Parang (Parranda) and La Casa de Fusion (a fusion of calypso and soca with Latin music) with Alicia Jaggasar. 6 pm. $35, adv $30.