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Archive for January, 2008
Those of you who want to have a deeper insight in the music, should head over to the ProudFlesh Journal. In Issue 3 (not the latest, but still relevant) there are some Calypso-related articles:
- Descendants of a Sharp-Tongued Dialectic: Calypso and the Chantwell, Allyson Samuel, Michigan State University, MI, USA
- Intimidation of Calypsonians by the UNC Gov’t of Trinidad & Tobago, Lynette M. Lashley, Indiana University-South Bend, IN, USA
- Bottom in de Road: Gender and Sexuality in Calypso, Maude Dikobe, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana
This years’ Barbados Music Awards happened last weekend at the Sir Garfeild Sobers Complex. Here are the winners:
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Continue reading ‘Barbados Music Awards 2008′
Everybody wants to hear the new Soca tunes - right on! If you don’t want to lurk around in illegal filesharing networks, you still have the option to get mixes by Soca DJs fresh out of the box. Here are some of them:
Digga D (UK) has always the newest tunes nicely mixed down - here are some of them:
Trini Groovy Mix 1
Trini Groovy Mix 2
Trini Tempo Mix 1
Trini Tempo Mix 2
Izatrini.com has a monthly podcast available with the latest tunes - get them here.
Also make sure you grab the radio show podcast and mixes of DJ Tony Tempo (USA) on his podomatic page.
Probably the oldest still existing Soca webcast is the MashUp Show, hosted by the Berlin based MashUp Bacchanal Crew. Get the weekly podcast here.
Technorati Tags: mp3 Trinidad podcastCarnival Tuesday is near, and many artistes release special roadversions of their songs. A nice overview can be found at Cyanwait mp3-Blog.
Rooplal G did it again - for the fifth time: He took the crown at this years’ Chutney Soca Monarch competition in Trinidad. He also won at the this year introduced Groovy category.
Chutney Soca category
1. Rooplal Girdharie
2. Rikki Jai
3. Soca Elvis
4. Arti Butkoon
5. Adesh Samaroo
6. Heeralal Rampartap
7. Neeshad Sultan
8. Rajin Dhanraj
9. Shakeeza Hazell
10. Rick Ramoutar
Groovy Chutney Soca category
1. Rooplal Girdharie
2. Rikki Jai
3. Lalchan Babwah(Hunter)
4. Heeralal Rampartap
5. Arnold Jordon
6. Adesh Samaroo, Devika Ram, Rick Ramoutar
7. Neeshad Sultan
8. Angela Ramoutar
[Article | Photogallery via Soca Nikki]
Technorati Tags: Trinidad Chutney soca monarch Here’s an update of all Carnival contestants - Soca Monarch, Calypso Monarch, Panorama.
Continue reading ‘Trinidad Carnival Finalists’
