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 ...

A festival created in honor of Costa Rican calypso legend Walter “Mr. Gavitt” Ferguson will be celebrated July 5 to 18 in his hometown of Cahuita, on the southern Caribbean coast. Organized by various ...

If you're a dog owner and a gardening aficionado, you may have received an unsettling e-mail recently warning you of a popular kind of fertilizing mulch that's made from cocoa bean shells. The shells, ...

Harry Belafonte, a transformational figure in American entertainment and activism, died at the age of 96 at home in Manhattan on April 25. The figurehead in popularizing calypso in America in the mid- ...

(Trinidad Guardian) A concert was scheduled to be held next month to celebrate the 75th birthday of calypso icon Explainer (Winston Henry). “It was supposed to be his diamond jubilee. Would you ...

Under the Trees at the Hotel Normandie, St Ann's, is one of the places one will witness the reunion of David Rudder and Pelham Goddard when the hotel presents the Pelham Goddard Roots Experience on ...

I think the Bermuda Calypso Festival is going to be a very successful event.”As part of the festival several of Bermuda’s musicians will be inducted into the Bermuda Musical Hall of Fame including ...

Miriam Bassett-Tucker was one of the island’s best-known calypso dancers in the 1950s. Today, few of the younger generation know her name. Atlantic Publishing House is looking to change that. She’s ...

In the part of the world Rolly Gray comes from, if you want a career in music, you’d better be good–and tough. “Trinidad is the land of calypso,” Gray says of his home country. “If you’re not good ...