Panman Overs Dat

Pantempers Steel

Carol of the Bells

Lopinot Parang Festival

Parang bands perform on stage at the third annual Spanish Heritage Festival at Lopinot Village Trinidad. Parang Music is a Christmas tradition in Trinidad and Tobago. The bands featured in the video are "Trinidad Parang Lopinot:" La Familid de Rio Claro "The Valey Boys Parang group." "Los Paranderos de UWI" Los Ninos Santa Rosa "Los Paranderos de Trinidad"

Lopinot Parang Festival

Several Parang Bands parade through the beautiful gardens of the Count De Lopinot's estate in Trinidad as part of the 3 rd annual Spanish Heritage Festival in Lopinot Village Trinidad. The bands are La Familid de Rio Claro, Los Buenos Paranderos, Los Ninos de Santa Rosa, Los Paranderos de Trinidad, Los Paranderos de UWI and The Valey Boys Parang group.

Chestnut roasting on an open fire

Love Came Down At Christmas

Sleigh Ride

Winter Wonderland

Have youself a Merry Christmas

Christmas Songs Melody

Soca Parang Christmas Video

Home For Christmas

Jubilation

Listen to the words of this song, this guys sings about the REAL reason for christmas!

My Wish

The hat I got for Christmas is Too BIG!

Oh Come All Ye Faithful

Parang History VIV

Parang History VIII

Parang History VII

Parang History VI

Parang History V

A Very Informative play that the Parang Group Voces Jovenes had done to educate the public on the history and meaning of Parang.... It is a very Important part of Trinidad Culture

Parang History IV

A Very Informative play that the Parang Group Voces Jovenes had done to educate the public on the history and meaning of Parang.... It is a very Important part of Trinidad Culture

Parang History III

A Very Informative play that the Parang Group Voces Jovenes had done to educate the public on the history and meaning of Parang.... It is a very Important part of Trinidad Culture

Parang History II

A Very Informative play that the Parang Group Voces Jovenes had done to educate the public on the history and meaning of Parang.... It is a very Important part of Trinidad Culture

Parang History I

A Very Informative play that the Parang Group Voces Jovenes had done to educate the public on the history and meaning of Parang.... It is a very Important part of Trinidad Culture

One Man Parang

This one is funny!!!

My Poor Piggy

Thiefing Parang Band

This one is so funny!  Many years ago, in Trinidad and Tobag, parang bands would visit almost every house in their neighbourhood and serenade the family.  As a token of appreciation, the family would serve drinks and eats.  This video is about a parang group visiting a lady's home and while they were serenading they were stealing the lady's pocessions!

Parang at Lions

Sleigh Ride

Wrong House

Socks and Draws

Christmas Wit U

Jingle Bell Rock

Parang practice

A Wonderful Day

Sweetest Christmas

Paraminos Parang Group

Jingle Bells

I hope you enjoy this one of a small steel pan group playing Jingle Bells on the streets of (looks like) London.

 

This Christmas

Ay Ay Maria

This song (composed of parang and soco music) was originally sung by Singing Francine of Trinidad and Tobago.  This parang group, Los Amigos (also of Trinidad & Tobago), was paying tribute to her by singing this song.

Anita

We are now in the christmas season and traditionally in Trinidad, there are alot of parang competitions and concerts around this time of the year. 

Trinidad and Tobago is very close to Venezuela and they also have this parang culture.  Parang is mostly sung in Spanish.
Some calypsians sing what we call a soca parang (of course a mixture of soca music and parang music).  I am unable to find many videos of these songs.  My goals is to post one each day until the end of the christmas season.  Lets see how that goes.

Hot, Hot Hot

Arrow is from Monsterrat and this song has been a hit internationally for many years.  It is still been used by various musicians world wide.

Doh Back Back

Electric Avenue

Eddie Grant is from Guyana.  I use enjoy this song back in the day!

Soca Pressure

The more the merrier

She Works Hard For Her Money

Brick House

Dan is De Man

Love in the cemetery

Pan In A Minor

Pan Here To Stay

Cold Sweat

Work It

Wine & Ben Over

This is what calypso music is today, a lot of the calypsonians use the soca beat. This song has another beat - hip hop - in the mix!

Calypso Music

Too Young to Soca

Steelpan

Trinidad and Tobago is famous for its steelpan music.  These gentlemen spend many sleepless night during the islands' traditional Carnival season to learn these composiitons each year.  As you will see in this video they are dressed casually but at the Finals they are all dressed in the same uniform and would look absolutely magnificant.  These perfomances are absolutely fantastic to see.  The music that they play are arranged by professional musicians on the island.

A calypso for the current year is choosen and it is arranged by their musicians for the the steelpan.  Each steelpan orchestra have their own arranger.

Yuh Looking Fuh Horn

Maria

Lord Blakie is now deceased, may he rest in peace!

Back To School

This one is so funny and it was a real hit!

Feeling Good!

I had a great morning.  I was using my friend's computer and I realized that my favicons are working on all my bogs!!!    Yea!!!  The reason for my excitement this morning is, on my computer, the favicon will work on one of my blogs and not the others.  I eventually got a bit frustrated and decided to move on to something else.  I have already spent a bit of time on this feature, now I see the results today!!!  I think my browser needs upgrading.

To take my joy to a higher level, I opened this blog and was playing the videos, so I was being entertained while I was working.  You should have seen me humming to myself and 'dancing'!  My next project is to add a favicon to my cooking website. This is my happy face..........

Mother Earth Crying

Ah Feeling It

Do The Iwer

I remember the year (1994) Iwer George sang this song, my uncle, his wife, my mother, my husband and I all went to this house party and we had a grand time as this calypso was played. The next day all my calf muscles were aching!!!!

Ole Lady walk ah mile

Jean & Dinah

Both Ah Dem

This was in 1992 at a event called Dimanche Gras at which Mighty Sparrow aka Slinger Fransico won Kaiso Monarch.

A woman could.....

Favicon

SUCCESS!!!! I finally have my favicon installed. It took alot of sweat and site hopping but I finally got it right.

I first got the tip from Sneaky Momma Design Tips, this site has lots of good and easy tips for bloggers. I have learned quite a lot since I visited this site.

Step 1

From Sneaky Momma post on this topic I found this site - Favicons4free where I used the code that worked for me.

But before all that I had to get an image that I liked so I googled an image and copied it. This site has a lot of good images too. Icon Archive.

The image that I choose was in jpeg format and I wanted it in png format. So I used Resize Your Image site to do this. I use this site quite often to resize and crop my images for my website.

Step 2

The next thing is to convert the png file to an ico file and reduce the size at Convertico. The size of the file should be 16 x 16. The result would be a url address like this, 'http/www.convertico.com/images/12520481.59/tt.ico'.

Step 3

After all this has been done, insert the converted file into this code. I was trying to insert the code here for you but it just was not saving. So I will have to revert you back to Favicon4free for the example. Choose any icon, copy the code and the part where the url for the image is, insert your url.

Step 4

Final step, go back to Sneaky Momma Design Tips for the instructions to insert this code into html part of your template.

Conclusion

I do hope my notes has been helpful someone. The last image is of my blog withmy newly installed favicon.

Much success to you!

Update 21st October 2009: This blog recommended this site that does everything.

Trini Comedy 1

This blog is about Calypso Legends but we have great comedians as well. So I decided to post some videos of some famous comedians. Enjoy and have a belly full of laughs!!

Voices From The Ghetto

Run Away

Saltfish

No No We Eh Goin Home

The Journey

Dis Party Is It

Whoa Donkey

Fire Fire