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We Music: Celebrating the Legacy of Desmond Waithe

Celebrating a national treasure Just in time for annual Independence celebrations, with its heightened focus on our national heroes, a

25 August, 2023
Celebrating 60: save the dates (14–16 July, 2023)

We begin Celebrating 60 this July! Join us as we kick off our 60th anniversary, diamond jubilee season with three

23 June, 2023
The curtain call for "I Dream a World" (December 2017, Queen's Hall). Photo: Butch & Allan Limchoy
Christmas with the Marionettes 2022: Hallelujah!

After a three-year hiatus, Christmas begins again with the Marionettes, as our adult and youth choirs return to Queen’s Hall this

6 November, 2022
Marionettes co-founder Jocelyn Pierre conducts the choir and Pan Am North Stars at Queen's Hall in 1968. It was the first ever concert with choir and steelband.
Marionettes & Pan Am North Stars: the original “voices & steel”

In 1966 (and again in 1968), the Marionettes Chorale and Pan Am North Stars steel orchestra performed an arrangement of

23 August, 2020
Watch Tributes (2008) — to Bernstein; Broadway (Ragtime & Hairspray); and Calypso (Rudder, Andall & Tanker)

In July 2008, the Marionettes adult choir and Youth Chorale kicked off their 45th anniversary season with Tributes — a

13 August, 2020
Pan Am North Stars and Marionettes in Some Enchanted Evening 1968
“Pans and Choir in Some Enchanted Evening” (Trinidad Guardian, 1968)

By Ewart Rouse Trinidad Guardian, July 1968 Photo by Kenny Rudd   Trinidad culture has just scored one of its

12 August, 2020
A message from Gretta Taylor for “I Dream a World”

Gretta Taylor’s Foreword in the programme for I Dream a World We can dream, can’t we? Dream about a better

3 December, 2017
Gretta Taylor conducts the choir at one of their popular Christmas concerts
Sing Alleluia: a message from Gretta Taylor

Five months ago, for our mid-year series Hearts Beat Together, we were singing in churches in Port of Spain, La

8 December, 2016
A message from Gretta Taylor on Hearts Beat Together

The Marionettes’ mid-year production usually takes place at Queen’s Hall. But it’s always a pleasure to partner with different communities

8 July, 2016
The ladies of LES MIS: in their own words

Carol Quash of the Newsday Women’s Weekly chatted with the leading ladies of Les Misérables. She asked everyone two things:

18 May, 2015
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