Snapshot: Two Views of Music in Toronto

Based primarily on Trinidad’s world-renowned pre-Lenten Carnival, Caribana—a two-week-long festival of the arts showcasing the multiple and diverse expressive traditions of the Caribbean—has become a well-established centerpiece of Toronto’s annual summer cultural fare. Begun in Canada’s centennial year, 1967, as a somewhat modest affair celebrating the multicultural presence of the small and newly arrived Caribbean community in Toronto, the event now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century,...