World-renowned jazz pan play­er Andy Narell and his band put on the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ca­lyp­so at the Learn­ing Re­source Cen­tre at UWI, St Au­gus­tine cam­pus last week.

The show was a re­sound­ing suc­cess as stel­lar acts Lord Su­pe­ri­or, Re­la­tor and David Rud­der re­ceived stand­ing ova­tions from the packed au­di­to­ri­um.

It was an evening of old-time ca­lyp­so, com­e­dy and sing-along for lovers of ca­lyp­so, pan, jazz and good old-fash­ioned en­ter­tain­ment. The au­di­ence was en­cour­aged to sing along with the per­form­ers and re­flect on the yes­ter­year in ca­lyp­so.

The au­di­ence seemed over­whelmed by the per­for­mances of the en­ter­tain­ers who sang their own com­po­si­tions or great clas­si­cal se­lec­tions from Lord Kitch­en­er and the Mighty Spar­row.

Lord Su­pe­ri­or, dressed in trade­mark rim hat and box gui­tar, had the au­di­ence not on­ly singing along but en­joy­ing the com­e­dy and lyri­cal style in the mu­sic dur­ing the first half of the show.

Re­la­tor came out dressed in black do­ing a num­ber of Kitch­n­er's tunes and in­clud­ed his char­ac­ter­is­tic one-foot-kick-in-the-air dance. Rud­der did a num­ber of his past hits much to the en­joy­ment of the crowd who sang along at every chance they had.