2024 Martinique Carnival Programme
JANUARY January 6 Election of Baby Queen, Baby King, Queen, Queen Mother & King of the Sape – Rivière-Pilote – 2:00 pm January 7 Carnival Soley Sud Show Parade – Saint-Esprit – 3:00 pm January […]
MARTINIQUE
Fondation Clément and ADAC present “Révélation! Contemporary Art of Benin”
This group exhibition can be seen at the Fondation Clément in Le François (Martinique) from December 15, 2023 to March 31, 2024. Conceived by Benin’s Agence de développement des arts et de la culture (ADAC) […]
Martinique Jazz Festival celebrates its 40th anniversary!
In 1983, the Centre martiniquais d’animation culturelle (CMAC) launched Jazz à la Martinique. 24 years later, in 2007, this annual musical event became the Martinique Jazz Festival. Over the past four decades, many local artists […]
Aya Nakamura, the “New Queen of Zouk”, arrives in Martinique and Guadeloupe!
Up until now, we thouht that the “Queen of Zouk” was Jocelyne Béroard, but obviously the singer of the famous band – Kassav’ – which invented Zouk in Guadeloupe in the 1970s and is made […]
Kassav’ to pay tribute to Jacob Desvarieux on November 18 in Guadeloupe and November 25 in Martinique
Finally, the dates of the “Sé’w nou enmé” tribute concert to Jacob Desvarieux in the French Caribbean have been announced! The dates are November 18, 2023 at the Palais des Sports in Le Gosier, Guadeloupe […]
Two exhibitions dedicated to Aimé Césaire open at the Fondation Clément
Born on June 26, 1913 in the town of Basse-Pointe in Martinique, Aimé Césaire died on April 17, 2008 in Fort-de-France. If the writer, poet and politician had been a baobab tree, he would have […]
Christian Lara, “Father of Guadeloupean and Martinican cinema”, has passed away
Christian Lara, 84, who had been hospitalized at the University Hospital in La Meynard, Fort-de-France, died on the evening of Saturday September 9. Guadeloupe, and more broadly the French Caribbean, has lost its pioneer of […]
“Mi Corazón”, Jade Chantelle’s fourth single
After the singles “Viens, on s’aime”, “Alter ego” and “Que serait le monde?”, multi-disciplinary artist Jade Chantelle is back with “Mi Corazón” (My Heart). Released on July 13, this fourth single is a declaration of […]
Christiane Vallejo, Gersham and Jakool8 composed “Gimme your lovin'”
“Gimme your lovin’” is a beautiful musical collaboration between two Creole and French-speaking artists from Martinique, Christiane Vallejo and Joël Jaccoulet aka Jakool8, and a Creole and English-speaking artist from Saint Lucia, Andy Alexander aka […]
The Centre National de la Musique organizes its Open Days
If you are a musician or work in the music industry in Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Martin, Saint Barthélemy or French Guiana, and you will be visiting the French capital in September, you will be able […]