http://www.decooler.com/socanews/2005/12/los-buenos-parranderos-are-parang-champions Weblog for Caribbean music - Soca, Calypso, Pan and Carnival Culture - Est. 2003 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:43:13 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://www.decooler.com/socanews/2005/12/los-buenos-parranderos-are-parang-champions/comment-page-1#comment-401 Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela: Why Trinis speak Spanish at Christmastime Tue, 27 Dec 2005 15:42:23 +0000 http://www.decooler.com/socanews/2005/12/los-buenos-parranderos-are-parang-champions#comment-401 [...] English may be the official language of Trinidad, but at Christmastime the country sings in Spanish. De Cooler : Soca News announces the results of the National Parang Championships, the competition which showcases Trinidad’s traditional Christmas music, while Caribbean Free Radio plays a few parang tracks and explains the genre’s Venezuelan origins. [...] [...] English may be the official language of Trinidad, but at Christmastime the country sings in Spanish. De Cooler : Soca News announces the results of the National Parang Championships, the competition which showcases Trinidad’s traditional Christmas music, while Caribbean Free Radio plays a few parang tracks and explains the genre’s Venezuelan origins. [...]

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