Kevon Felmine

On a night when hu­mor­ous ca­lyp­so­ni­ans reigned supreme, it was the classy touch of three-time Cana­di­an Ca­lyp­so Monarch Pro­tec­tor that had pa­trons at the Kaiso Show­case beg­ging for more. There was bare­ly an emp­ty seat at OW­TU's Palm Club at San Fer­nan­do last Fri­day for the open­ing night of the Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans Or­gan­i­sa­tion (Tu­co) South tent. Among the hun­dreds present were Arts and Mul­ti­cul­tur­al­ism Min­is­ter and for­mer Ex­tem­po King Win­ston "Gyp­sy" Pe­ters, San Fer­nan­do May­or Mar­lene Coudray and her hus­band, In­dus­tri­al Court Judge Lar­ry Achong. Hu­mor­ous ca­lyp­so­ni­ans such as San Fer­nan­do Ex­tem­po King Hezeki­ah Joseph, Mr Na­ture and Mr Mack and Cy­clops had tears flow­ing from spec­ta­tors' eyes as they laughed un­con­trol­lably.

Joseph in par­tic­u­lar, with his catchy tune, It's Al­leged, sang about Crime Watch show host Ian Al­leyne which proved to be en­ter­tain­ing. The diminu­tive co­me­di­an Cy­clops con­tin­ued with his ab­surd and wit­ty se­lec­tion E Jock­ey. How­ev­er, the show be­longed to Michael Leg­ger­ton (Pro­tec­tor), who had pa­trons danc­ing and wav­ing in their seats to his heart warm­ing se­lec­tion en­ti­tled Prayer of My Heart. It was a song in which he called up­on God to keep the na­tion to­geth­er. An­oth­er well re­ceived per­for­mance was that of Tu­co's South Cen­tral pres­i­dent Steve Pas­call (Ras Kom­man­da), who com­mand­ed the at­ten­tion of the au­di­ence with his ca­lyp­so Noth­ing Wrong. The show which con­tained a mix­ture of medi­oc­rity and con­vinc­ing per­for­mances saw artistes such as La­dy Adan­na, SHY and an en­er­getic Jeromy Ro­driguez of St Mary's Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry re­ceiv­ing hearty re­cep­tions from the au­di­ence.