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 21^st. 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.

2011 “KAISO 365” CALYPSO MONARCH RESULTS

Winner   Structure

2^nd (tie) Macomere Fifi

Pan Man Pat

4^th Beginner

5^th Spice

6^th Mr. Wonderful

7^th (tie) Newton P

Redman

8^th 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...!

For more information or to purchase tickets call (416) 795-2722 or email

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