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 ...

As Guyana celebrates Republicanism with Mashramani and the 2014 Trinidad Carnival moves into high gear, the greatest calypsonian of all time, The Mighty Sparrow, is awarded Trinidad and Tobago’s ...

The relationship between the carnival season in the Caribbean and Guyana’s Mashramani is very easily disguised. The two seasons coincide, not so much by the natural calendar or traditional roots but ...

WHEN SOCA (soul-calypso) is mentioned, two performers come immediately to mind: Arrow and Super Blue. Between them Montserrat native Arrow and Trinidad-born and bred Super Blue they are responsible ...

ORLANDO, FL, UNITED STATES, March 14, 2025 /EINPresswire / -- Calypso and Soca, two of the Caribbean's most influential and culturally significant music genres, are calling for recognition as distinct ...

Calypso and soca are both genres of music that originated in our twin-island nation, but they have distinct characteristics: • Calypso emerged during the colonial period. Its roots have been ...

Hip-hop isn't the only cultural movement celebrating its golden anniversary this year; soca, the up-tempo, propulsive descendant of calypso created in Trinidad and embraced across the Caribbean ...

Carnival season on the Caribbean island of Trinidad boils down to one thing: fresh soca music. Consider it Red Bull for your ears, or music with a purpose. "The intention of the energy of soca music ...

An icon in Caribbean music, a legend within the calypso art form and a powerful force in shaping calypso's up-tempo descendant soca, Winston "Shadow" Bailey died at Mount Hope Hospital, St. Joseph… By ...

In a deep dive into the evolving landscape of soca and calypso, The UWI’s Department of Literary, Cultural and Communication Studies hosted its fifth U(We) Outside discussion, almost a year after its ...