The calypso music of Trinidad and Tobago is often associated with legendary male singers such as Mighty Sparrow (Slinger Francisco) and Lord Kitchener (Aldwyn Roberts). Americans may also think of ...

Lancelot Victor Pinard, who under the name Sir Lancelot was a significant figure in introducing calypso music to American audiences, died March 12 in Anaheim. He was 98. Accompanying himself on guitar ...

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 ...

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 ...

"On the subject of calypso singers of Trinidad he was both knowledgeable and enthusiastic. The culture they sang about was tough, breezy, unsentimental. Vidia had written…'It is only in the calypso ...

Harry Belafonte, the effortlessly graceful singer credited with popularizing calypso in the U.S. in the 1950s who then marched at the forefront of the country’s civil rights struggle for half a ...

Irving Burgie, a singer and songwriter who wrote many calypso hits for Harry Belafonte and others, including the 1956 hit “Day-O” (“The Banana Boat Song”), died on Friday, according to the New York ...

Trinidad kicks off Caribbean bash Disguised as fire-breathing dragons, glittery grim reapers and a huge translucent butterfly, masqueraders kicked off Carnival celebrations in Trinidad, while Calypso ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago — In the sweaty abandon of a summer festival, did calypso singers libel chickens? That question, with all of its free speech ramifications, is the unlikely first ...

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 ...