Shadow (Winston Bailey), performing at Kaiso House calypso tent

Buglers performing during procession on the street

Hosay drummers beating bass (baydum) and tassa drums during the period of preparation for Hosay

Tassa drummer playing traditional skin drum

Tighening the drum skins with fire in 2002; a ritual relegated to the past since virtually all tassa drums in Trinidad now use synthetic heads

Tarandath Sawh, tabla player

Kali Shakti Temple women, chanting and playing jhaals during Indian Arrival Day procession

Pan ‘Round the Neck followed by traditional Carnival characters

Staffhhire Flamingoes steel band

Venture Joylanders steelband

Pushing pan, Carnival Monday

Youth steelband performing outdoors

Exodus Steel Orchestra practicing on the track before crossing the stage

Exodus Steel Orchestra performing at the World Steelband Festival (Pan is Beautiful Festival)

Nicole Brown, a student from USA, learning to play pan at the Desperadoes Steel Orchestra panyard

Clive Bradley, arranger for Desperadoes Steel Orchestra

Alicia Jaggesar, lead singer of the parang group Los Alumnos de San Juan

Dancers during Lawah celebration, the official ending of the Parang season

José Hernandez, cuatro master and tutor, practicing with his student Joan Garcia Ganpat

Paranderos going house to house

Drummers on van (pickup truck) during Carnival

Drummers on Frederick St. during Carnival