Fresh off a sea­son of in­ter­na­tion­al ac­claim and cul­tur­al tri­umph, Trinidad and To­ba­go’s own Kes The Band is prepar­ing to car­ry the sound of the Caribbean across Eu­rope with the launch of their Roots, Rock, So­ca Tour, be­gin­ning April 30.

The an­nounce­ment comes on the heels of a defin­ing start to the year for the glob­al­ly cel­e­brat­ed group. In Jan­u­ary, the band de­liv­ered his­toric, two-night sold-out per­for­mances at the Jazz at Lin­coln Cen­ter Uni­ty Jazz Fes­ti­val in New York—a land­mark achieve­ment that un­der­scored their mu­si­cal so­phis­ti­ca­tion and glob­al ap­peal.

They fol­lowed that feat with an­oth­er sold-out show­case at Sum­mer­Stage in Cen­tral Park, trans­form­ing one of Man­hat­tan’s most icon­ic venues in­to a vi­brant cel­e­bra­tion of Caribbean rhythm and sto­ry­telling.

Those per­for­mances were more than con­certs; they were de­c­la­ra­tions. They reaf­firmed Kes The Band’s com­mit­ment to mu­sic deeply root­ed in Caribbean iden­ti­ty while con­fi­dent­ly em­brac­ing evo­lu­tion and glob­al in­flu­ence. It is that same ethos that shapes the up­com­ing Eu­ro­pean tour.

“Roots, Rock, So­ca is ex­act­ly who we are,” said lead vo­cal­ist Kees Di­ef­fen­thaller. “It’s our sto­ry—where we come from, how we’ve grown, and how we con­tin­ue to rep­re­sent Caribbean cul­ture and mu­sic to the world with con­fi­dence and in­ten­tion. This tour is about car­ry­ing that joy­ful spir­it of our peo­ple every­where and invit­ing new fans along for this beau­ti­ful jour­ney in­to the cul­ture.”

The ti­tle it­self reads like a man­i­festo. “Roots” ho­n­ours the band’s foun­da­tion in ca­lyp­so tra­di­tions, African rhythms and an­ces­tral mem­o­ry—the cul­tur­al in­her­i­tance that in­forms their sound and stage pres­ence. “Rock” rep­re­sents re­bel­lion, growth and their fear­less ex­pan­sion in­to glob­al gen­res, from reg­gae to R&B to pop. And “So­ca” re­mains the heart­beat: the in­fec­tious, lib­er­at­ing pulse of Caribbean joy and mod­ern ex­pres­sion that has pro­pelled the band from Port-of-Spain to the world’s most re­spect­ed stages.

To­geth­er, those el­e­ments de­fine Kes The Band’s un­mis­tak­able son­ic iden­ti­ty—one that is at once deeply Caribbean and un­mis­tak­ably glob­al.

The Eu­ro­pean leg will see the band per­form­ing in three ma­jor cities over three con­sec­u­tive nights: Paris, France, at Cabaret Sauvage on Thurs­day, April 30; Am­s­ter­dam, The Nether­lands, at Par­adiso on Fri­day, May 1; and Lon­don, Unit­ed King­dom, at O2 Acad­e­my Brix­ton on Sat­ur­day, May 2.

Each venue is renowned for host­ing ground­break­ing in­ter­na­tion­al acts, and each will serve as a can­vas for Kes The Band’s sig­na­ture live ex­pe­ri­ence—high-en­er­gy, emo­tion­al­ly res­o­nant, and mu­si­cal­ly ex­pan­sive. Au­di­ences can ex­pect beloved an­thems such as Co­coa Tea, Hel­lo and Sa­van­nah Grass, reimag­ined along­side con­tem­po­rary arrange­ments that re­flect the band’s con­tin­ued artis­tic evo­lu­tion.

More than a tour, the ven­ture sig­nals the con­tin­ued glob­al de­mand for so­ca as both an art form and a cul­tur­al move­ment.

Pre­sent­ed in part­ner­ship with WME and Live Na­tion, the band’s of­fi­cial tour­ing agency, the Roots, Rock, So­ca Tour rep­re­sents an­oth­er mile­stone in Kes The Band’s steadi­ly ex­pand­ing in­ter­na­tion­al foot­print.

Kes The Band has long been re­gard­ed as one of the most in­flu­en­tial mu­sic groups to emerge from the Caribbean.

Un­der the lead­er­ship of Di­ef­fen­thaller, the band has built a rep­u­ta­tion for soul­ful vo­cals, in­fec­tious stage en­er­gy and a fear­less blend­ing of gen­res that tran­scends bor­ders. Their mu­sic moves seam­less­ly be­tween so­ca, ca­lyp­so, reg­gae, R&B and glob­al pop—a ver­sa­til­i­ty that has en­deared them to au­di­ences far be­yond Car­ni­val sea­son.

Yet at the core of their glob­al as­cent re­mains a clear mis­sion: to el­e­vate Caribbean mu­sic with au­then­tic­i­ty, pride and pur­pose.