Jess Carey Bright and bouncy music drifts out of Fulkerson Hall on Monday evenings as Cal Poly Humboldt’s Calypso Ensemble gather for their weekly rehearsal. Rhythmic and soaring, it’s a ...

Trinidad, British island off the northeast coast of South America, is a hot mixture of bloods, French, Spanish, Negro, Carib, Hindu, Chinese. Once a year, on the two days before Lent, Trinidad goes ...

The warm rhythms of traditional calypso music at the Sachem Public Library Friday night had many wishing that summertime would come just a bit sooner. As part of Black History Month the library hosted ...

That patriotic declaration on today’s 63rd Independence Day reflects the gravitas calypsonian Stacey Sobers places on carrying on the oral traditions of Trinidad and Tobago. Sobers has selected Rhythm ...

Diana Hamilton sings with kindness, humor, mischievousness; but moreover, this Bahamian from Paris interprets standards and, novelties in her own rhythms, jazzy, calypso, reggae; to make us vibrate ...

GEORGETOWN (Reuters) - Calypso lyrics decrying corruption and excess have so irked Guyana's government that new songs from the popular Caribbean music genre have been banned from state airwaves.

Calypso Nights’ The Humboldt Folklife Society and Dell’Arte will present “Calypso Nights,” an evening of Caribbean music, on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Carlo Theatre in Blue Lake. Doors open a half ...

If you haven’t heard of soca music by now, you’re about to get a full dose of it in 2020 and beyond! This electrifying genre of music can be described as “jump-up music.” It combines East Indian and ...

MIDDLETOWN >> Michael Charles has a vision. He believes that, some day, the city could become a star on the map of the world’s largest carnivals, just like Trinidad and Tobago. For the sixth year, ...

The Mighty Shadow, one of Trinidad and Tobago's most original calypsonians, died on October 23, 2018, just weeks after his 77th birthday. Shadow, whose real name was Winston Bailey, brought poetry to ...