The Mighty Spar­row will per­form at the Gen­er­a­tion Show­down con­cert tak­ing place at the Jean Pierre Com­plex, Port-of-Spain on Thurs­day.

The Birdie will sing some of his most loved songs from his ex­pen­sive reper­toire built over an im­pres­sive 58-year ca­reer.

It is still to be de­cid­ed which of the "Nu Skool" artistes will face Spar­row on stage as none seems brave enough to go up against the sea­soned leg­end.

Spar­row has re­cov­ered well from the ill­ness he suf­fered last year and he is as spright­ly as ever and very ea­ger to take the stage for the show.

He him­self was on­ly 20 in 1956 when he took the na­tion by storm with Jean And Di­nah trounc­ing all the el­der bards of the day.

Spar­row in fact opened a new era in ca­lyp­so and in short time was giv­en the ti­tle Ca­lyp­so King of the World.

His per­for­mance will make for much more ex­cite­ment at Gen­er­a­tion Show­down.

Pre­sent­ed by Spek­taku­la Pro­mo­tions, Gen­er­a­tion Show­down pits ca­lyp­so­ni­ans and so­ca artistes of the old school against the younger acts of the day or, "nu school" as they have been dubbed.

A spe­cial at­trac­tion is al­so an Ex­tem­po-Free style clash be­tween Gyp­sy and Bun­ji Gar­lin. The el­ders per­form­ing in­clude Black Stal­in, John­ny King, Su­perBlue, David Rud­der, Baron, Swal­low and Ex­plain­er. Among the younger artistes are Fay-Ann Lyons, Kees Di­ef­fen­thaller, Mr Kil­la, Chucky, 5 Star Ak­il, Farmer Nap­py and Gar­lin.

There will al­so be a spe­cial reg­gae show­down fea­tur­ing Ja­maican dance­hall artiste Pop­caan go­ing up against his el­der reg­gae singer Bar­ring­ton Levy.

The vet­er­an croon­er in­tends to school the young up­start who has been tout­ed as the next big act to come from Ja­maica.

This is the third edi­tion of Gen­er­a­tion Show­down and the pre­vi­ous shows in 2012 and last year were both sold out events that were said to be among the best events of the re­spec­tive Car­ni­val sea­sons.

This year promis­es to be even bet­ter.

For mor­e­in­for­ma­tion­call 628�8700.