A crescent moon hung in the cloudless sky over Trinidad and Tobago (T&T), as steel pan orchestras pushed through a throng of thousands of supporters who had gathered to greet them outside the Queen’s Park Savannah in Port of Spain.
They were on their way to the final round of the Caribbean country’s national steel band competition: the culmination of months of rehearsal.
The ‘steelpan finals’, which kick off four days of carnival revelry in T&T, is a fierce competition, with the bar rising yearly. On stage...
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Author: Natricia Duncan