Fresh off a string of land­mark per­for­mances and sold-out shows, KesThe­Band has an­nounced a ma­jor ex­pan­sion of its in­ter­na­tion­al Roots, Rock, So­ca Tour, adding new dates across the Unit­ed States and Cana­da while broad­en­ing its Eu­ro­pean run to meet grow­ing de­mand from glob­al au­di­ences.

The an­nounce­ment marks an­oth­er mile­stone for the group, which con­tin­ues to car­ry the rhythms and spir­it of Caribbean mu­sic on­to some of the world’s most promi­nent stages.

What be­gan as a three-city Eu­ro­pean tour has quick­ly grown in­to a mul­ti-con­ti­nent mu­si­cal jour­ney, now in­clud­ing a sec­ond show in Am­s­ter­dam and a brand-new stop in Antwerp, Bel­gium.

The North Amer­i­can leg of the tour will bring the band’s high-en­er­gy per­for­mances to ma­jor mu­sic cities across the Unit­ed States and Cana­da, with shows sched­uled from Seat­tle and Port­land to New York, Boston and Toron­to.

The ex­pan­sion fol­lows a break­through year for the group, high­light­ed by their sold-out per­for­mances at Cen­tral Park’s Sum­mer­Stage se­ries in 2025 and a his­toric Jan­u­ary 2026 head­line ap­pear­ance at the Uni­ty Jazz Fes­ti­val at Jazz at Lin­coln Cen­ter.

For lead singer Kees Di­ef­fen­thaller, per­form­ing in cities that helped shape glob­al mu­sic his­to­ry car­ries spe­cial mean­ing.

“Tak­ing so­ca to leg­endary mu­sic cities around the world is deeply mean­ing­ful for us,” Di­ef­fen­thaller said. “These are places that have shaped glob­al mu­sic his­to­ry for gen­er­a­tions. To bring the sound of T&T—the spir­it of Car­ni­val, the rhythm of our an­ces­tors, the joy of our peo­ple—in­to those spaces is pow­er­ful.”

He added that the tour is about firm­ly plac­ing so­ca mu­sic in the wider glob­al mu­sic con­ver­sa­tion.

“So­ca be­longs on those stages. It be­longs in every con­ver­sa­tion about world mu­sic.”

The tour’s ti­tle re­flects the band’s evolv­ing mu­si­cal iden­ti­ty.

“Roots” pays homage to the deep in­flu­ences of ca­lyp­so, African rhythms and an­ces­tral sto­ry­telling that shaped Caribbean mu­sic. “Rock” rep­re­sents ex­per­i­men­ta­tion and growth, in­cor­po­rat­ing glob­al sounds and mod­ern pro­duc­tion. And “So­ca” re­mains the pul­sat­ing core of the band’s sig­na­ture sound—joy­ful, en­er­getic and un­mis­tak­ably Caribbean.

To­geth­er, the three el­e­ments form what fans have come to recog­nise as the dis­tinc­tive mu­si­cal iden­ti­ty of KesThe­Band.

The group has long blend­ed so­ca with el­e­ments of reg­gae, R&B and pop, pro­duc­ing in­ter­na­tion­al hits such as Co­coa Tea, Hel­lo and Sa­van­nah Grass, songs that have be­come sta­ples of Caribbean fes­ti­vals and con­certs world­wide.

Pre­sent­ed in part­ner­ship with William Mor­ris En­deav­or and Live Na­tion, the tour high­lights the grow­ing in­ter­na­tion­al ap­petite for Caribbean mu­sic and live so­ca per­for­mances. Fans can ex­pect im­mer­sive con­certs com­bin­ing beloved an­thems with fresh arrange­ments that re­flect the band’s artis­tic evo­lu­tion.

Be­hind the scenes, a large tour­ing team sup­ports the band’s elab­o­rate stage pro­duc­tion, in­clud­ing mu­si­cians, en­gi­neers, tech­ni­cians and cre­ative staff work­ing to­geth­er to de­liv­er the dy­nam­ic live ex­pe­ri­ence the group is known for.

The core line­up fea­tures Di­ef­fen­thaller on vo­cals, along­side key­boardists Ge­iron Mang and Mario Cal­len­der, drum­mer Dean James, gui­tarist Jon Di­ef­fen­thaller and bassist Ri­ad Boo­choon, among oth­ers.

The 2026 tour comes dur­ing what many fans al­ready con­sid­er a defin­ing year for the band.

Be­yond ex­pand­ing their glob­al foot­print, the tour sig­nals the con­tin­ued rise of so­ca mu­sic on the in­ter­na­tion­al stage—some­thing Caribbean artists and au­di­ences have long cham­pi­oned.

For KesThe­Band, the jour­ney is about more than mu­sic. It is al­so about shar­ing the cul­ture and sto­ries of T&T with au­di­ences around the world.

With each stop—from Eu­ro­pean mu­sic halls to North Amer­i­can am­phithe­atres—the band hopes to car­ry the spir­it of Car­ni­val far be­yond the Caribbean.

And as the Roots, Rock, So­ca Tour con­tin­ues to grow, one mes­sage rings clear: the sound of so­ca is trav­el­ling fur­ther than ever be­fore.