‘Power of music’: steel pan bands foster joy and resilience at Trinidad and Tobago carnival
Caribbean country’s steel band competition, held this year amid escalating violence, celebrates an instrument born out of colonial resistance
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.
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