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Montreal Caribbean Jammers Egbert Gaye In Trinidad they call it the “engine room” …  a collection of percussion instruments struck, scraped or shaken to keep time and provoke audiences...

Montreal Community CONTACT celebrates its 25th Anniversary with an 80-page publication covering the lives of the individuals, organizations and events that marked our place in Montreal, Quebec and Canada....

After his unceremonious trade, P.K is still standing and playing while his detractors pout   Egbert Gaye What is it about P.K. Subban that provokes so much unruly emotion...

Gemma Raeburn Baynes: “retirement maybe…” Egbert Gaye It must have been something about 22-year-old Gemma Raeburn back in 1972, when Winston Roberts, the man accredited as been one of...

He will be in concert on Sunday, May 28 Egbert Gaye The way Papa San tells it too many young people have been kept out of the church for...

Marking 30 years   Egbert Gaye For many of the people of the Caribbean living in cities across North America, calypso remains one of their most cherished cultural expressions....

Egbert Gaye The album is called  Ginga. Ginga can be interpreted as a rhythmic expression of Brazilian counter-culture. It shows itself in the way they do their thing on...

After the flood Egbert Gaye That Wednesday morning, May 3, the water was rising steadily outside of Tim Sobers’ store, Marché Colonnade, at the corner of Rene Emard Street...

“Back then, as Black people in Montreal we really valued each other… I remember the days when you would acknowledge every Black person you saw on the street. It...

Beverly Deroy remembers the tough days Egbert Gaye Part of the foundation of our community rests on the shoulders of the thousands of women who made their way here...