It is a musical that has been put off too long, for one reason or the other. But on June 17, veteran theatre practitioner Rhoma Spencer will finally get to show what she’s been working on since ...

The Antigua and Barbuda Festivals Commission (ABFC) has announced the sixteen (16) calypsonians who will compete in the much-anticipated 44th Independence Calypso Competition. On Thursday, October 16, ...

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 ...

EXIT Theatre Arcata has announced that the fourth annual “Short Play Festival” will take place June 18 to 28, 2026.

The entrée and dessert — New York’s annual West Indian American Day Carnival Parade — is weeks away, but Everybody’s magazine’s Calypso-Soca Festival & Tent is an impressive appetizer leading up the ...

This recent Soul Jazz comp explores calypso's roots as party music that doubled as a delivery system for current events, street wisdom, social humor, and reflections on daily life. Save this story ...

For decades, music promoter Isaac McLeod was associated with great Caribbean music. And more than a year after his death, the tradition continues. Calypso performers David Rudder, Shadow, Baron, Sugar ...

Women ruled the the opening hours of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on Friday including a self-assured set from 20-year-old singer-songwriter King Princess, this year’s Grammy star Kacey ...

One common assumption about the demographics of Coachella is that it’s a youth festival, dense with a superficiality that no grown-up, even singer Calypso Rose, could possibly enjoy. While it’s true ...

Fast rising in U.S. jukebox popularity this week is a macabre little ditty about a woman’s right to kill a man with a frying pan, since he was “nobody but my husband.” Sung by Ella (A Tisket, a Tasket ...