A Celebration of Parang: The Sounds of Trinidad & Tobago 

I love this comment.

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So true ❤

Couldn't agree more :)

Venezuelan?? no love. This comes from the Spanish history in Trinidad. But I can understand why you though that.

@@bajanredras77 You obviously don't know your musical history and did not pay attention to the video!

I agree with you Stone w; parang is Venezuelan

@@bajanredras77 my grandfather's parents came from Venezuela His brothers and sisters were born there. He taught us parang.

@@bajanredras77 parang was introduce by the cocoa planters also know as cocoa paynols that came from venezuela its a mixture of amerindian and spanish instruments and we were geographical connected to venezuela a long time and them we broke off. So even though we have spanish history the credit still goes to venezuela and one thing is we made our own cuatro and we carry on the tradition of the music of parang

Every Carnival Sunday is Patois mass in Paramin and now there is a Patois mass in Talparo on a Sunday in October (the 2nd or 3rd Sunday, can't remember which)

@@maljosangre I have had the privilege of celebrating the Patois Mass in Patois on Carnival Sunday. I have preached in a mixture of Patois and(and English) French

This is brilliant. I also hear African Rhythms in the parang music (I do know that the influence is there, both in Trinidad and Venezuela, and recently, I was listening to some music out of an African country that sounded very similar in rhythm and notation). We are more alike than we are different!

I had the privilege of meeting Mr. Gomez on a visit to Lopinot three years ago and though it was in early September we had a parang jam session in the great house; he singing and playing the cuatro, my son on the toc toc and I on the maracs. Two months during the lockdown I did a driveby and was appalled at the condition of the place; neglected and desolate; it was heartbreaking.

can you tell me the lyrics of the song he sung @3:23?

This actually depresses me. My family came from Venezuela and settled in Trinidad and our Latin culture was ignored and consumed by everything else. It bugs me. I grew up with parang music and if you go to Trinidad now, most people just act like the Latinos in Trinidad are not people, despite the fact it is 6-7 miles away from Venezuela.

@@LaFlor718 I'm sorry you have that experience :( I wonder if the Venezuelans who are in Trinidad like parang music.

@@MichaelBCooperIn Spanish: Puso uno, puso dos, puso tres, no puso mas, In English: Put one, Put two Put three, do not put more

We have spanish history because we were once own by spain before england took over and then we became a independent country and it is taught in our schools too

The word is "Trinidadian".... Trinidadian music....

Antonsj7 remember we are 7 miles from you guys plus the Spanish were here from 1492-1797 then the English from 1797-1962

Antonsj7 these people we refer to as Cocoa Panyols in Trinidad 🇹🇹

Antonsj7 Ant esta musica es etinica de las antillas y el caribe NO de Vnzla.

@@jennifermiller567 dónde aprendiste esto? Porque la mayoría de las canciones, aguinaldos, son iguales a las de las zonas rurales de Venezuela, desde la letra hasta el ritmo....y el original 'Caiman' va para Barranquilla pero esto es otro tema 😂

School bro

Venezuela's culture you mean. Thanks Trinitarian people for loving Venezuelan Cultural Identity!

@@arellanokrl as trinidadian culture it is, as the calypso del Callao is venezuelan culture that came from trinidad!

@@marianavazquezstrauss9144 First, in Venezuela the Calypso is not representative of the entire country. We Venezuelans recognize that Calypso comes from Trinidad and Tobago because of the immigrants who came to Venezuela and found a home to live in a land that received them with open arms. Calypso is a Trinitarian cultural identity and we like it because it is a beautiful cultural expression. We will never say that Calypso has its roots in Venezuela or shares its roots with Trinidad and Tobago. Simply put, Calypso is a musical genre from Trinidad and Tobago. For us, Calypso lives in El Callao, a town in the Bolívar state, but our Creole Music lives in all regions of the country.

@@arellanokrl still don't see what's the difference there... They say it has venezuelan roots. They have evolve with it as sure has the calypso form el callao evolved from the original form... From the video and some comments here it appears to me that we in Venezuela enjoy and promote more the calypso del callao all around the country (Venezuela) than what they promote the parang in the entire trinidad&tobago....

@@marianavazquezstrauss9144 Calypso is not a popular music genre across the country. In Venezuela it is a musical expression with a specific location. Calypso does not have a historical link with the rest of our Creole musical manifestations. All Venezuelans know the origin of Calypso and what kind of muisc it is. In essence it is beautiful music totally different from our cultural tradition but it is alive in El Callao and we love it for its beauty and its historical importance that speaks of the people who came to Venezuela and found a better place to live. Those people of great value found a way to integrate into our society through music among other cultural facts. Parrang is a limited interpretation of Venezuela's music, it is not Trinitarian folklore.

A very kind comment, I appreciate you saying that. I love Parang and miss Trinidad. I hope we will be able attend the festival again someday. Thanks again for helping to inspire this documentary.

My pleasure! Please keep on being that selfless servant to indigenous music.

Our 'roots' music is the call and response like Harry Belafonte and what we sing, playing the bottles, grater and spoons at Nine Nights, Set Up or Dead Yaad!🥳💚

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I now reach. We coming by you next eh....

@@lunaoyashii allyuh pass thru!

@@SocaNick And iz dat....✊🏾

Love youTito💝.. rest in peace

I grew listening to parang in Trinidad Iin the 50's and loved it. I am now living in Scotland but I have good memories of the parang group coming to my Grandmother's house in the early hours of the morning during the Christmas season. I hope the culture never dies 🎄🎄🎄

@@melaniecristo3529 rip?

your comment actually infleunced us to travel to the south of Trinidad this past year. New footage from Siparia and Palo Seco coming soon....

I agree with you, but the elders should not get the full blame. I'm about to turn 30 and I speak Patois fluently. I started teaching myself to write it in my teens and now I both speak and write it. Trinidad under the British had an official policy of Anglicization aimed at making Trinidad an entirely English speaking island.The colonial government make social mobility more difficult for those who did not speak English, it affected everyone, from the French Creole upper-class (many of whom spoke French at home) to the Patois and Spanish speaking masses, In the 19th century, the dominant language of Trinidad was Patois, by the 1940's the language had begun to fade away, as English gained ground; though the polices put in place more than 100 years prior. So Patois held its ground for more than 100 years under the British rule. It's not to late to save the language in Trinidad, like you said it's not dead yet, just had to find.

vybz099 this is true. My Great grand parents used to speak this when they didnt want their kids to hear what they were saying.

I totally agree, my Mother, my grandmother and her sister spoke it often, but never passed it on to us!

Yes! My grandma only spoke patois to her friends. when I came into the room they all switched to our Trini dialect which don't forget is made up of English, French and Spanish.

@@calmingspirit1 I know how y'all feel we losing our culture in my country

like please

haha! Thanks Warahoun! Those rhythms from Trinidad!!

yes indeed, my home that I miss so much. Love me some parang.

El Joropo llanero nació en Arauca y Venezuela lo adoptó

​@@deinerj9165El joropo al que te refieres, es el llanero, el único que se canta y baila en Colombia. El joropo llanero es una variante más del joropo Venezolano que aquí se orgino hace más de 300 años. Aparte, el joropo llanero no nació en Arauca. Tampoco es el más viejo de los joropo si no todo lo contrario

You can always start ;).... I am Venezuelan 37 years old and I just started :P...

We based ourselves in Arima our first trip to Trinidad and then Paramin on our second. Some of the interviews conducted here are in Arima.. We also we paid a visit to the grave of Lord Kitchener while staying nearby..

Nice video it’s good to know t&t is still that melting pot ❤️❤️🙏

I agree with you Enrique Castro; it's true.

Hey Samuel! Nice to hear from you! We are working on the footage now and I will get it up ASAP (day jobs getting in the way). I've been enjoying your fiddle playing..

​@Karl A Petit Bueno creo que te equivocas un poco. Porque en tu cosmovisión entonces Venezuela tambien se autoengaña con el Calypso.... La influencia venezolana del parang no llego ahí hace 60 a-os sino siglos.... además se reconoce que la influencia venezolana es esencial.... A parte te recomendaría leer un poco del Caribe Andaluz y como se han desarrollado las músicas tradicionales en latinoamerica (la música llanera, parang, son jarocho, guajiro cubano, etc)..... Las músicas y culturas siempre llegan y evolucionan.... Y si te vas a la raíz se vuelve inocua tanta discrepancia nacionalista!....

@@marianavazquezstrauss9144 una cosa es que tu cosmovisión esté orientada hacia una visión sesgada de la Cultura y de como esta evoluciona. El Calypso no es un autoengaño porque como bien tu sabes en Venezuela no andamos diciendo que el Calypso es folklore original venezolano, lo que decimos es que esa manifestación cultural folkorica del crisol etinco trinitario entró históricamente a nuestro país y la adoptamos porque fue un introducción cultural con Denominacion de Origen en Trinidad y Tobago, donde tiene su genesis y razón: en ese país, en esa cultura. Por el otro lado la Cultura Trinitaria es muy diferente a la venezolana, producto de diferentes mezclas étnicas, de diferentes culturas dominantes y dominadas, de diferentes geografías, que dieron como resultado diferentes respuestas culturales tanto en Venezuela, como en Colombia y en Trinidad y Tobago. Que hoy algunos intereses ocultos e indiferentes actores funcionales a esos intereses quieran borrar la historia, suplantar la verdad e imponer tendencias en base a mentiras es otra cosa. ¿Cual es el problema en reconocer que la cultura venezolana es diferente a la Trinitaria o a la Colombiana? Que seamos diferentes no significa que no podamos reconocer, disfrutar, copiar o adoptar lo bueno que cada cultura diferente tiene. No hay problema ni Xenofobia,desde Venezuela, en que otros amen nuestra cultura, solo se pide respeto a la historia e identidad de un pais. En Venezuela amamos a Trinidad y a Colombia, es decir amamos a la gente de esos países y más aun si expresan amor a nuestra cultura. Hay que estar muy ciego para reducir un hecho cultural del tamaño de un pais a una argumentación basada en asunto de Cosmovisiones relativistas. Que vivan la musica criolla venezolana, el arpa venezolana, el cuatro y las maracas venezolanas como embajadores culturales de Venezuela en todo el Mundo.

@@arellanokrl quien está hablando aquí de Colombia? Pero tr explice porque te equivocas en decir que las culturas son taaan diferentes.... (trinidad y Venezuela) Yo a este video llegué porque estaba viendo la historia del son jarocho (musica del sotavento mexicano, es decir Veracruz y partr de oaxaca y Tabasco) y como llegaron las músicas e influencias del caribe andaluz tanto a México, cuba, puerto rico, Venezuela y trinidad.( y descubrí que en trinidad tb habia musica en español parecida al son jarocho, parang, musica llanera venezolana) en este video cuentas que es a raíz de inmigrantes venezolanos... Aunque este video tampoco es un documento histórico como sus autores dicen. .. En cada lugar evoluciona algo distinto pero la relación histórica es irrefutable.... En el video los expositores del parang dicen y reconocen claramente que el parang tiene raices venezolanas (e igual se refiere a migracion del siglo 18)... Pero tb la Música ha evolucionado con ellos... En realidad es una cuestión de, a partir de cuando, cuanto tiempo dices que está musica es tuya o la sientes como tuya.... En todo caso como es de humanos estar en desacuerdo.... Te deseo lo mejor!

Acotó que yo solo me refiero aquí al video dsl parang... Y al parang como tal!

@@marianavazquezstrauss9144 el señor CANAPIARE quien escribe el comentario principal habla de Colombia. Por otra parte, difiero contigo porque no muestras argumentos sólidos que sustenten lo que tu dices. Por tus comentarios entiendo que solo pretendes expresar una idea que tienes del tema. Saludos.

"El Diablo Suelto - Raul Landaeta & Vanessa Emperatriz, Port of Spain"

@@ATreeWithRootsMusic thank you

El Diablo Suerte ( The Lucky Devil), a traditional instrumental.

Petranilla, this video was intended to document the people and musicians we met in Trinidad & Tobago as we traveled it following our ears! Unfortunately Daisy had long passed..

Hey Judy, we appreciate the comment and watching of our video! Clarita won the National Parang competition in 1971, a few years before Daisy did! If you have some information different from what is available online we would love to hear it! We sincerely love Daisy's music and wish she was still here with us to be included in our video..

C n new

I'd like 2 know d woman before daisy wit a Cautro who died den d queen daisy came

No way there was a woman before her she was great also

You will hear the cuatro in early calypso recordings, so there is an element of influence there, but Calypso has its roots in the Griot tradition of West Africa. Carib and jazz influences as well..

@@ATreeWithRootsMusic, ok

Islandgirl3330 , it has already started.