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Newspaper: Newsday Date Published: Tuesday 1st March 2016 ALTHOUGH it was a morning of ‘ups and dows’ — trafic jam in the vicinity of Queen’s Hall, so much so “downtown” taxis were refusing to go to St. Ann’s due to the jam. Taxi-drivers were going “only around the Savannah.” They...

Writer:John Babb Newspaper: Newsday Date Published: Saturday 20th Feb 2016 BISHOP’S Centenary College Folk Song Choir yesterday topped the list of School Folk Song Choirs — over 20 singers (13-15 yrs), singing their own choice tune topped the field with 92 marks for their fantastic display in action and tuning...

Newspaper: Guardian Date Published: Friday 12th Feb 2016 The T&T Music Festival Association celebrates its Diamond Jubilee in 2016, beginning with the hosting of its 31st Music Festival from February 14 to March 12 at venues in North, South and Tobago under the patronage of Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly, Minister of...

Newspaper: Newsday Date Published: Thursday 21st Jan 2016 THE National Women’s Action Committee (NWAC) released the full results of the National Calypso Queen Competition which took place at Queen’s Hall in St Ann’s on Monday night. Amrika Mutroo bowled out 19 other competitors for the crown with a song entitled...

Newspaper: Newsday Date Published: Friday 15th Jan 2016 VETERAN calypsonian Timothy Watkins Jr aka “The Baron” has been added to the cast of the annual concert series, “Vintage Fuh So”. Hosted annually by the Holy Name Past Pupils Association, this year’s edition is entitled “Pan, Sweet Pan” and is scheduled...

Newspaper: Newsday Date Published: Friday 8th Jan 2016 IT’S 2016 and the theatre season opens in spectacular way with the mega hit of 2015 ‘Real Housewives of Port-of-Spain’ which will finally be staged for the first time in Port-of- Spain.   Read the full article here....

Queen’s Hall has always been viewed as the organisation which sets the standard for the performing arts industry in Trinidad and Tobago. This does not just emanate from the fact that we are the oldest performing arts space in the country but from the fact that successive Boards have taken...

Newspaper: Trinidad Express Date Published: Saturday 14th November, 2015 To get the Christmas celebrations off to an entertaining start this year, the Marionettes Chorale will present Noël: Christmas with the Marionettes—four nights of festive musical gems, from December 3 through 6, at Queen’s Hall in St Ann’s.   Read the...

Newspaper: Newsday Date Published: Wednesday 11th November, 2015 He is renowned in the Carnival sphere. Brian MacFarlane has built his reputation and character furthering TT’s Carnival. Santification, The Washing by Fire by Water are just two of the many Carnival bands MacFarlene has to his name. The many awards he...

Newspaper: Trinidad Express Date Published: Friday 23rd October, 2015 Acclaimed Trinidadian jazz trumpeter, Etienne Charles continues to do this nation proud on the international circuit having recently received a 2015 fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The prestigious award is presented to professionals who demonstrate exceptional capacity for...