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🇨🇼Curacao
Music Grows Magic at Curacao’s Den Paradera
Den Paradera is among the most uncommon garden attractions in the Caribbean, with Dinah Veeris among our region's most treasured personalities.
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🇩🇲Dominica
Saturday Video: Get Ready For World Creole Music Festival 2014
For one special weekend each fall, the usually quiet island of Dominica becomes party central for the Caribbean music world.
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🇩🇴Dominican Republic
Los Hermanos Guillén: Throwing Authentic Taíno Pots to Palos
Over the past 3 generations, Los Hermanos Guillén have collected and reproduced native Taíno ceramic art preserving the history of Hispañola.
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🇻🇮U.S. Virgin Islands
Saturday Video: Everything That Makes the Virgin Islands So Nice
There is absolutely, positively no place like home in the U.S. Virgin Islands for us. The song Virgin Islands Nice shows why...
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🇯🇲Jamaica
My Memories of Kindergarten in St. Croix and Linstead Market
One of my warmest memories of my earliest years at St. Croix Country Day School is of a sad song about a market in magical place called Jamaica.
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🇯🇲Jamaica
Alpha Boys’ School, Nurturing Jamaican Music for More Than 100 Years
Founded in 1880 by Catholic nuns, Jamaica's Alpha Boys' School has somewhat miraculously served as one of the world's greatest music factories for generations.
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🇹🇹Trinidad
Saturday Video: 3:10am at Trinidad Carnival Panorama
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🇻🇮U.S. Virgin Islands
Scratch Music Bands of the USVI
Scratch music has its roots in slavery, when displaced Africans would make music out of anything they could find in the USVI.
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🇹🇹Trinidad
Saturday Video: The Beautiful Flag Women of Trinidad Carnival
Pulse-pounding, sexy, infectious – a Flag Woman's performance is as critical to a winning steel band orchestra as having all the players hit the right notes.