“Music was my refuge,” the renowned author and poet Maya Angelou once said. “I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” While her powerful speaking voice was ...

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 names Aldwyn Roberts and Slinger Francisco might not ring a bell in jazz circles, but trumpeter Etienne Charles' Kaiso helps to rectify that issue. Charles pays tribute to these two giants of ...

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 ...

It’s as Caribbean as rice and beans and sunshine. Calypso music has been popular along Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast since the late 1800s. More than a century later, the government of Costa Rica has ...

At Manhattan’s august music house, G. Schirmer Inc., do-it-yourself Calypso Kits (including bongo drums, a gourd and a pair of maracas) were selling briskly last week for $24.50 and up. Columbia ...

The advancement of Calypso and Jazz as a Caribbean music artform was the goal as the Creative Caribbean Project funded the Dominant Seventh Calypso Jazz Band led by trumpeter, composer and arranger ...

Go today adds a new local channel, Calypso Music Television, on its 'Free+' line-up. The new channel will also be added at no extra cost to the 'Silver+' and 'Gold+' packages. The Broadcasting ...

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 ...

Tickets $20 general admission, $15 CAC members, $10 students Women of Calypso Discussion and Workshop 8 p.m. Thursday Free admission Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St., 528-3800; www.cacno.org The ...