DAVID CUFFY

Trinidad and To­ba­go's most dec­o­rat­ed ca­lyp­so queen Denyse Plum­mer is leav­ing for Wash­ing­ton DC on Thurs­day on the in­vi­ta­tion of Am­bas­sador Dr Neil Parsan to per­form at a func­tion in cel­e­bra­tion of the coun­try's 50th an­niver­sary of In­de­pen­dence. The event will take place at the res­i­dence of the am­bas­sador, 1708 Mass­a­chu­setts Av­enue, NW Wash­ing­ton, DC 20036 on In­de­pen­dence Day (Fri­day). Ap­pear­ing on the play­bill with Plum­mer will be a Wash­ing­ton DC-based steel or­ches­tra. On her re­turn on Sep­tem­ber 1, Plum­mer will be­gin prepa­ra­tion for her an­nu­al ap­pear­ance at Sun­day School in To­ba­go where she is ex­pect­ed to share the stage with Black Stal­in (Leroy Cal­liste) on Sep­tem­ber 29. Buc­coo's leg­endary Sun­day School has been a pop­u­lar spot for lo­cals and tourists for many years; a meet­ing point for peo­ple of all races and na­tion­al­i­ties.

It is a To­bag­on­ian tra­di­tion en­joyed by young and old, and an in­trin­sic part of the fab­ric of To­ba­go. Plum­mer will re­turn to To­ba­go to pro­vide en­ter­tain­ment at the 2012 To­ba­go In­ter­na­tion­al Cy­cling Clas­sic and UCI 1.2 Tour of To­ba­go that will take place from Oc­to­ber 2 to 7. In ad­di­tion, ne­go­ti­a­tions are un­der way for Plum­mer to trav­el to South Africa to par­tic­i­pate in that coun­try's Car­ni­val in No­vem­ber, af­ter which she will re­turn home to ful­fill con­trac­tu­al oblig­a­tions for Christ­mas 2012.