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There are other musical forms in this music-crazed nation.

Islam celebrates two great annuall festivals:
• The festival of Eid Ul Fitr, or Day of  Recurring Joy, falls in the first day of Shawwaal, at the end of the month-long fast of Ramadan,.
• The festival of Eid Ul Adha is celebrated at the end of the Hajj (annual pilgrimage to Mecca) during the twelfth Islamic month of Zjul Hijjah

• Hosay is a Shiite Muslim procession commemorating the martyr of two Moslem Princes, thus originally a mourning festival. It starts 10 days after the first appearance of the new moon in the Moharram month of the Moslem calendar.
• There is a colourful processions with flags and spinning moons and 10-30 feet tall elaborate replicas of temples called tadjahs made of wood and papiermache are paraded on floats.


• Dancers carrying and spinning the huge moons are accompanied by tassa drumming and chanting. The parade ends at the water’s edge and the tadjahs and the moons are thrown into the water as offerings. After which, there are prayers of mourning.
• The main celebrations are in St James, West of Port of Spain and Cedros in South Trinidad.
 
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• Divali, the festival of lights is usually celebrated in the last quarter of the year.
This a family affair and involves a lot of good food in East Indian homes.
 
 
• Arima celebrates The feast of St Rose de Lima on August 29th., at its Parish Church with a dedication to her. Amerindians descendants journey from all over the island to walk in this solemn procession round the church.

• Pre Christmas parang music is part of the island's Spanish heritage.
Parang is sung in Castillian, accompanied by guitar, cuatro, mandolin and tambourine.

• La Divina Pastora/Supari Mai - The Siparia community draws worshippers over the Easter weekend; Catholics and Hindus alike pay homage to the Black Madonna, a statue believed to have healing powers

Tobago's unique heritage festivities take place mid July to early August annually.
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