Trinidad and Tobago, a twin island nation in the Caribbean, is a small place with a big musical presence. It's the home of calypso and the steel pan and chutney but not the edible kind. Reporter Ike ...

A musical stew made up of the deeply flavorful ingredients of the wildly different styles of Soca and Chutney music, which incorporates Hindi lyrics and Indian instruments most typically the dholak, ...

As the stage curtains rose and the first notes of chutney music echoed through the theatre alongside a silhouette of Indian dancers and musicians, to the last beat of the dholak, it became clear that ...

If there’s a current “big three” when it comes to different styles of Caribbean music, it’s probably reggae, dancehall and soca. Between Buju Banton’s Stateside return and Vybz Kartel’s release from ...

If blues was the magic carried by African slaves, chutney music was the sorcery of Indo-Caribbeans. It is Bhojpuri folk electrified with Caribbean swagger – dholak beats fused with soca basslines and ...

Raymond Ramnarine and Mitesh ‘DJ Desiblue’ Prahalath energise the packed venue with their electric performance. Photo: Yolanda van der Stoep The atmosphere was electric at Emperors Palace’s centre ...