PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) - The black-clad old man crept gingerly onto stage wearing a mournful expression, more funeral director than musical legend. Sign up here. Then Shadow, a Calypso legend, jolts ...

ON FEBRUARY 20, 2025 THE Central Bank Museum launched its first exhibition of the year entitled “From Chanterelle to Calypsonian: Celebrating 90 Years of Female Calypsonians in Trinidad’s ...

Most people overlook the gorgeous Caribbean twin islands of Trinidad and Tobago but those who holiday there praise the best sights, spell-binding scenery, marvelous beaches, charming and friendly ...

In the Caribbean, calypsonians and their musical offerings are typically associated with Carnival, but Barbados-born, Trinidad and Tobago-raised Francine Edwards managed to successfully cross over ...

But it didn’t pan out. In May 1957, a banner headline in Variety screamed that “Calypso is Stone Dead”. By the year’s end, the calypso fad went the way of all fads. The Trinidad-born music did not go ...

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 ...

Calypso dead? Not quite. Calypsonians and calypso shows being lazy and unoriginal? We have plenty of that. The Eternal Pantomime explains. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest ...