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Trinidadian NYC

Trinidadian NYC is centered in Crown Heights, Flatbush, and East Flatbush, Brooklyn, and Nassau County, Long Island.

NYC’s big Trinidadian festival, the Labor Day Carnival & West Indian Day Parade, is NYC’s version of Trinidad Carnival, the Mother of Caribbean Carnival.

Trinidad has South Asian culture which is unique in the Caribbean.

Trinidadian Restaurants

Trinidadian New York City

  • Trinidad & Tobago Consulate

Trinidadian Festivals

  • J’ouvert
  • Labor Day Carnival
  • West Indian Day Parade

Trinidadian Culture

  • Calypso
  • Carnival
  • Diwali
  • Dougla
  • Holi
  • Limbo
  • Soca
  • Steel Pan
  • Trinidad Orisha

New York Carnival & West Indian Day Parade 2022 are Back in Brooklyn!

VIBES WITH VOICE Soca concert
Thursday, September 1, 2022

ISLAND 2 ISLAND Soca concert
Friday, September 2, 2022

JUNIOR CARNIVAL + PAN IN A MINOR
Saturday, September 3, 2022

PAINTOPIA J’OUVERT + AMNESIA Soca & Dancehall party
Sunday, September 4, 2022

WEST INDIAN DAY PARADE
Monday, September 5, 2022

BROOKLYN MUSEUM
Crown Heights, Brooklyn

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Trinidadian Archive

Trinidad & Tobago Are Multicultural

Trinidad & Tobago is a unique multicultural country with South Asian influences.

We don’t consider ourselves Latin, but do share an Indigenous Taíno & Carib, Spanish, French Haitian, and African heritage. English colonizers brought East Indians and Chinese. East Indian heritage is Trinidad’s largest ethnic group, so we are Asian too! Dougla culture is the South Asian African mix.

Traditional Calypso mixed with East Indian rhythms and American Gospel into Soca, the popular music of Trinidad.

South American mainland countries Guyana and Suriname have very similar cultures.

Trinidadian-American actor, dancer, musician and artist Geoffrey Holder is one of New York’s most famous Trinidadians. Dance Theatre of Harlem still produces his work. His masterpiece “Dougla” is one Dance Theatre’s signature pieces.

Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago are a pair of islands in the Lesser Antilles. Trinidad is less than seven miles from the Venezuelan mainland.

Trinidadian Culture in NYC

September 2022

Brooklyn’s Labor Day Carnival opens with Aaron “Voice” St. Louis headlining the Vibes with Voice Soca concert at the Brooklyn Museum on Thursday, September 1, 2022 from 4-11pm. From $50. 🇹🇹

Brooklyn’s Labor Day Carnival Island 2 Island NYC Soca concert features GBM Nutrson, Jadel, Adamo, Edwin Yearwood, Teddyson John, Lavaman, Melick, Vaughn, Kemmy, Ricardo Drue, Preedy, and Pumper at the Brooklyn Museum on Friday, September 2, 2022 from 4-11pm. From $60. 🇹🇹

Brooklyn’s Labor Day Carnival Junior Carnival 2022 is at the Brooklyn Museum on Saturday, September 3, 2022 from 8am – 2pm. $12. 🇹🇹

Brooklyn’s Labor Day Carnival Pan in A Minor traditional Steel Pan competition on the Brooklyn Museum grounds on Saturday, September 3, 2022. Doors at 7pm. From $23. 🇹🇹

Brooklyn’s Labor Day Carnival Paintopia J’ouvert party is on the Brooklyn Museum grounds on Sunday, September 4, 2022 from 8am – 2pm. From $44. 🇹🇹

Brooklyn’s Labor Day Carnival Amnesia Soca and Dancehall party is on the Brooklyn Museum grounds on Sunday, September 4, 2022 from 3-11pm. 🇹🇹

LABOR DAY
NYC’s West Indian Day Parade 2022 is on Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights from Schenectady Avenue to Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn on Monday, September 5, 2022 at 11am. Free. 🇹🇹🇧🇧🇩🇲🇬🇩🇱🇨🇻🇨🇬🇾🇸🇷🇬🇫🇯🇲🇭🇹

LABOR DAY
Machel Montano Soca Kingdom celebrates 40 years of Trinidadian Soca at Barclays Center in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn on Labor Day, Monday, September 5, 2022 at 8pm. From $62. 🇹🇹

September 2021

In SummerStage “Reggae Gold Meets Soca Gold” Kevin Crown hosts DJ Puffy, Edwin Yearwood, Alison Hinds, Chromatic Sound, Noah Powa, Gyptian at the Ford Amphitheater in Coney Island, Brooklyn on Monday, September 13, 2021 at 7pm (5pm doors). Free 🇯🇲🇹🇹

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