For four decades, the Humboldt Calypso Band has introduced audiences to the joyful spirit and deep cultural roots of steelpan ...

Harry Belafonte died on this day, April 25, 2023, after a long life well-lived. And he used that life to produce some of the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Harry Belafonte, the Jamaican-American singer, songwriter, actor and activist whose music helped break Caribbean music through to ...

Nicholas Daley presented his Spring/Summer 2023 collection in September 2022, tapping on Jamaican multi-hyphenate Harry Belafonte to reflect Caribbean success. His record-breaking album, Calypso, ...

Fast rising in U.S. jukebox popularity this week is a macabre little ditty about a woman’s right to kill a man with a frying pan, since he was “nobody but my husband.” Sung by Ella (A Tisket, a Tasket ...

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 ...

Rum and Coca-Cola (Wilmoth Houdini and his Royal Calypso Orchestra) --Love, love, love (Lord Beginner) --Nora (Lord Kitchener with Cyril Blake's Calypso Serenaders) --Little Mary had no lamb (The Lion ...