2011 Calypso Awards Gala Dinner & Dance
2011 CALYPSO AWARDS GALA Dinner & Dance featuring
International Calypso Star 2011 Canadian Calypso Monarch CALYPSO ROSE STRUCTURE
Host Macomere Fifi
Ossie Gurley & The Truth
DJ Bad Lad
Friday, October 21st Rembrandt Banquet Hall 930 Progress Avenue, Scarborough
Dress festive formal
$60.
Book your tickets early!!! Call: (416) 445-3919 Online: www.ticketgateway.com
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Calypso Rose – The Calypso Queen comes to town
In 1978 Calypso Rose shattered the status quo in Trinidad & Tobago when she paradoxically won the country’s top prize of Calypso King. The male-dominated calypso world would never be the same! With her commanding stage presence and vocal mastery, her win forced embarrassed authorities to change the name of the annual competition to Calypso Monarch.
The now 71 year-old charismatic musical icon of the calypso world will be in Toronto with her brand of husky vocals, raunchy calypso and exciting soca at the 2011 Calypso Awards on Friday, October 21st. Rose’s trail-blazing days of making her mark on the history of Caribbean music propelled her on a three decade international career that this year saw her voted the No. 1 calypsonian of Trinidad & Tobago.
A feature-length documentary called 'Calypso Rose: The Lioness of the Jungle' was also released earlier this year at the Cannes Film Festival. Directed by Pascale Obolo, it tells Calypso Rose's compelling story through interviews, live concert footage, and more. The film was premiered in Toronto at the 2011 CaribbeanTales Annual Film Festival and will be available on DVD at the Calypso Awards.
Rose’s fame has recently soared in Europe, where she starred in Calypso @ Dirty Jim’s, a televised documentary broadcasted across the continent. She “put on fire” the European audiences on stage in Cirque d’Hiver and Zenith in Paris, Barbican in London, and WOMEX in Seville.
The 2011 Calypso Awards will be held at Rembrandt Banquet Hall, 930 Progress Avenue, Scarborough and is a fundraising event organized by OCPA – the Organization of Calypso Performing Artistes. Also featured will be Structure, the 2011 Canadian Calypso Monarch and the announcement of the winner of the first annual Preston Shepherd Scholarship Award.
Structure wins
Canada’s top calypso music prize – Kaiso 365 – was captured by Bryan Structure Thornhill before a capacity crowd in the P.C. Ho Theatre of the Chinese Cultural Centre. In a hotly contested battle between nine singers performing two songs each, Barbadian-born Structure also won the coveted People’s Choice Award and several other Special Awards for Lyrics, Melody, Presentation, Originality, Rendition and Humour.
Winner Structure 2nd (tie) Macomere Fifi Pan Man Pat
4th Beginner 5th Spice 6th Mr. Wonderful 7th (tie) Newton P Redman
8th King Smokey
2011 “KAISO 365” CALYPSO MONARCH – SPECIAL AWARDS
BEST LYRICS: Structure – Trenton Monster
BEST MELODY: Structure – Trenton Monster
BEST PRESENTATION: (tie) Structure – Trenton Monster Newton P – Old Age Pension
MOST ORIGINAL CALYPSO: Structure – Trenton Monster
BEST RENDITION: Structure – Trenton Monster
BEST COMPOSITION ON A LOCAL TOPIC: Panman Pat – Stop The Gravy Train
MOST HUMOUROUS CALYPSO: Structure – Trenton Monster
BEST ARRANGEMENT: Michael “Skel” Redhead – Tackling The Issues (sung by Macomere Fifi)
PEOPLE’S CHOICE: Structure
Structure has won the Calypso Monarch title in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2007. Structure will take home a cash prize of over $6,000.00 and will be sent to represent Canada in London, U.K in next year’s Notting Hill Carnival, as part of an exchange programme with the Association of British Calypsonians (ABC) that saw their 2010 Calypso Monarch Alexander D Great perform here as a Special Guest.
KAISO 365 Calypso Monarch Finals
Saturday, July 23rd nine top calypso singers vie for Canada's top calypso prize -
Kaiso 365!
The doors open at 6:00 pm at the P.C. Ho Theatre, Chinese Cultural Centre, 5183 Sheppard Ave. East for a showdown between last year's winner Macomere Fifi and eight singers vying to dethrone her.
Fifi will be up against some formidible talent in the form of Beginner, Panman Pat, Structure, Spice, King Smokey, Redman and newcommers Newton P and Mr. Wonderful.
Host Rhoma Spencer will be on had to entertain and titilate fans for a 4-hour concert that features Ossie Gurley and The Truth band and Special Guest Alexander D Great, the reigning calypso monarch of Great Britain.
The eight finalists were chosen from the recently concluded Calypso Tents Music Series to do battle with Fifi. The series ran for five weekends and featured three productions or "tents", The Professionals, Kaiso Forum and De Masters Cove. Tickets are $35. advance and $40. at the door. To purchase tickets please visit: www.ticketgateway.com Ticket also available at: Nicey’s Food Mart Scarborough - 416-497-9717 Charlie’s Scarborough – 416-283-1441 Play De Record – 416-586-0380 Downtown: A Different Book list – 416-538-0889 Charlie’s West Indian Food Mart Mississauga - 905-896-3663
CALYPSO TENTS OPEN IN TORONTO
2011 Calypso Tents Music Series
What will our Canadian calypso artists be singing about this year? Find out when the 2011 Calypso Tents Music Series gets started on Saturday, June 11th at the Steelworkers Hall (Calypso Central!!), 25 Cecil St. in downtown Toronto.
Celebrating thirty years of calypso in Toronto, the series has expanded and added a new tent led by calypso maestro and JUNO winner Jayson Perez. The production is named De Masters Cove and features seasoned performers and new faces. The Kaiso Forum and the Professionals round out the 5-weekend run of concerts that show off many of Canada's best and most accomplished calypso singers backed by bands Neu Jenerashun and Shak-Shak. Calypso of all varieties expose the heartbeat of life in the Caribbean community, the sounds rhythms and cadences that evoke our community’s past and sense of hope for the future. This is North America's only music series of its kind.
Come and enjoy a special night of music and entertainment...!
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