Parang With Rome once again af­firmed its place on Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Christ­mas cal­en­dar as more than 3,000 pa­trons packed the Cipri­ani Labour Col­lege for a high-en­er­gy cel­e­bra­tion of parang mu­sic and fes­tive tra­di­tion.

Now in its sixth con­sec­u­tive year, the event de­liv­ered vi­brant per­for­mances, en­thu­si­as­tic crowd par­tic­i­pa­tion, and strong so­cial-me­dia buzz, fur­ther ce­ment­ing its sta­tus as one of the coun­try’s most an­tic­i­pat­ed Christ­mas show­cas­es.

Head­lined by ITZ ROME and pow­ered by Kar­ma the Band, the night fea­tured stand­out per­for­mances from parang stal­warts Ed­die Charles, Crazy, Mar­cia Mi­ran­da, and Los Alum­nos de San Juan. A high­light of the evening was the pre­sen­ta­tion of the Parang With Rome Life­time Achieve­ment Award to Ali­cia Ja­gas­sar of Los Alum­nos de San Juan, in recog­ni­tion of her out­stand­ing con­tri­bu­tion to the parang genre.

The en­er­gy in­ten­si­fied with sur­prise ap­pear­ances by so­ca stars Nailah Black­man, Blak­ka Dan, Ravi B, Al­i­son Hinds, and Iw­er George. Their per­for­mances cre­at­ed a seam­less fu­sion of parang and so­ca, unit­ing gen­er­a­tions of mu­sic lovers and keep­ing the au­di­ence on its feet through­out the night.

Pa­trons al­so en­joyed a live­ly Christ­mas food vil­lage fea­tur­ing lo­cal sea­son­al favourites, adding an­oth­er lay­er to the im­mer­sive Trin­bag­on­ian Christ­mas ex­pe­ri­ence.

“Parang With Rome is about keep­ing parang alive and giv­ing peo­ple a true Tri­ni Christ­mas ex­pe­ri­ence,” Rome said. “It’s about pre­serv­ing our cul­ture, cel­e­brat­ing the sea­son, and bring­ing gen­er­a­tions to­geth­er through mu­sic.”

With its con­tin­ued growth and strong cul­tur­al im­pact, the sixth stag­ing of Parang With Rome has set an even high­er stan­dard for fu­ture edi­tions.