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Friday, May 2, 2025

Aloes sweetens up kaiso lovers

Fe­male ca­lyp­so­ni­ans fight crime on Wednes­day

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So­ca and ca­lyp­so con­tin­ues to be in the fore­front of things cul­tur­al since Car­ni­val 2013. Last Wednes­day, pa­trons at De Nu Pub (The Mas Camp) in Wood­brook were treat­ed to an en­joy­able con­cert, head­lined by for­mer Na­tion­al Ca­lyp­so Monarch Sug­ar Aloes and fea­tur­ing Dr Will B, Brown Boy, Singing Francine and Pos­er. The ca­lyp­so ac­tion con­tin­ues this week with two ma­jor events billed for the pop­u­lar show­place.

On Wednes­day night, Aloes dis­played his ver­sa­til­i­ty, singing a mixed reper­toire of his past hits, in­clud­ing No­body Loves No­body, Signs of the End of Time, Time, Hell and Heav­en, This is not the land I used to know and Love Be­ing Me. Dur­ing the lat­ter num­ber, a song about com­par­isons made by fans be­tween Aloes and Baron, he was joined by Baron, much to the crowd's de­light. Dur­ing the im­promp­tu per­for­mance, the pop­u­lar duo in­vit­ed a cou­ple, cel­e­brat­ing their 31st wed­ding an­niver­sary, on stage. Sug­ar Aloes and Baron ser­e­nad­ed them by ren­der­ing the pop­u­lar 1955 French bal­lad Let It Be Me, made pop­u­lar in 1960 by The Ever­ly Broth­ers.

Just af­ter in­ter­mis­sion, Singing Francine was pre­sent­ed with an award by TU­CO PRO Kare­ga Man­dela for her con­tri­bu­tion to the ca­lyp­so art form, and the in­spi­ra­tion she has giv­en to fe­male ca­lyp­so­ni­ans for many decades. Seen last Wednes­day at the Mas Camp were in­ter­na­tion­al­ly renowned trum­peter Er­rol Ince, for­mer Na­tion­al Ca­lyp­so Monarch Black Stal­in, vet­er­an bard Bro Su­pe­ri­or and au­thor/ca­lyp­so tent man­ag­er Rudy Ot­t­ley.

This week, Sug­ar Aloes re­vealed that his Ca­lyp­so Lovers In­ter­na­tion­al is stag­ing a mas­sive show at the Cen­tre of Ex­cel­lence, Ma­coya, on East­er Mon­day (April 1), ti­tled So­ca and Ca­lyp­so Mon­archs Cel­e­brate. The cast for this one-night-on­ly con­cert in­cludes 2013 In­ter­na­tion­al Pow­er So­ca Monarch and Road March cham­pi­on Su­perBlue; 2013 Na­tion­al Ca­lyp­so Monarch Pink Pan­ther; the pride of An­tigua, Swal­low; for­mer na­tion­al mon­archs Black Stal­in, Denyse Plum­mer and Aloes; Scrunter; Ex­plain­er; Skatie; John­ny King and oth­ers. Spe­cial guest artiste will be 2013 cham­pi­on Na­tion­al Panora­ma arranger Len "Boogsie" Sharpe.

Come Wednes­day, led by Singing San­dra, the fe­males on the cast of Kaiso House ca­lyp­so tent will ob­serve this year's In­ter­na­tion­al Women's Day by hold­ing Stop The Vi­o­lence, a can­dle­light vig­il out­side The Mas Camp, from 7.30 pm. "We just can't stand idly by and let our com­mu­ni­ties be de­stroyed by the law­less," said Singing San­dra last week. "We, the women, are the moth­ers, sis­ters, aunts, grannies and even daugh­ters, of some these mis­guid­ed peo­ple. We must do some­thing to try and save them, and re­claim out com­mu­ni­ties." In 1999, San­dra was crowned Na­tion­al Ca­lyp­so Monarch when she sang a Christophe Grant com­po­si­tion ti­tled Voice From the Ghet­to, a mas­ter­piece which lament­ed the plight of tru­ant youth in to­day's crime-rid­den com­mu­ni­ties.

The women have is­sued as in­vi­ta­tion to their sis­ter ca­lyp­so­ni­ans from oth­er tents, as well as all so­ca artistes, mem­bers of TU­CO and the gen­er­al pub­lic to join them.Fol­low­ing the vig­il, the women will stage Sis­ters in Song, a con­cert in­side the show­place, head­lined by Singing San­dra and Karene Ache, as well as Unit­ed Sis­ters' Mar­vel­lous Mar­va, Sis­ter Ava, La­dy Ayesha and oth­er pop­u­lar fe­male artistes. Show­time is 9 pm.The week's live en­ter­tain­ment at The Mas Camp con­tin­ues on Thurs­day with 3Canal be­ing the star guest act for Caribbean Night, head­lined by Pel­ham God­dard and Roots. Show­time is 8.30 pm.


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