CAMILLE CLARKE

In­stead of mourn­ing the deaths of her two sons, Joanne Row­ley, bet­ter known as Ti­gress in the ca­lyp­so are­na, will be ad­dress­ing the ills of this coun­try dur­ing her per­for­mance at Ca­lyp­so Fi­es­ta, at Skin­ner Park in San Fer­nan­do on Sat­ur­day.

Row­ley said her song en­ti­tled Row­ley to Row­ley is an ad­dress to Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley.

In an in­ter­view on Thurs­day at the draw for po­si­tions at the se­mi-fi­nals of the Na­tion­al Ca­lyp­so Monarch, at NA­PA in Port-of-Spain, Row­ley said her sons would not like her to stay home and mourn their deaths.

Row­ley said one of her son's died of an asth­ma at­tack in 2015 while an­oth­er died of a brain aneurysm in 2016.

"I lost my son in De­cem­ber and my mu­sic is my out­let and ther­a­py," she said.

Reign­ing So­ca Monarch Aaron St Louis, bet­ter known as the Voice, said that his mov­ing in­to ca­lyp­so are­na was about gain­ing ex­pe­ri­ence.

"It's about ex­pe­ri­ence and it is dif­fer­ent vibe to learn new things and the ex­pe­ri­ence," he said.

St Louis said it would be his first year singing ca­lyp­so which was not that dif­fer­ent.

"It's not branch­ing off be­cause ca­lyp­so is the par­ent of so­ca and the mu­sic I do is ca­lyp­so. It is some­thing cur­rent."

He said his song ti­tled Year for Love was be­cause he be­lieved it was a year for love.

"I think it is a year for love and not crime and vi­o­lence," he said.

Steve Pas­cal, pub­lic re­la­tions of­fi­cer of the Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans' Or­gan­i­sa­tion, said the prize mon­ey for the com­pe­ti­tion was yet to be de­ter­mined but it would be based on the sub­ven­tion giv­en from the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion.

How they will per­form

1 De­von Seale Not red or yel­low

2 Karene As­che Song of In­spi­ra­tion

3 We­st­on Rawl­ins Cro Cro Be­lat­ed

4 Maria La Caille Maria Bho­la Let her go

5 Dex­ter Par­sons The Stinger Chi­nese Tu­ition

6 Ezekiel Yorke A cash less so­ci­ety

7 Carl­ton Loui­son Glo­ri­fied Gang­ster

8 Ronal­do Lon­don To­mor­row

9 Giselle Fras­er Wash­ing­ton GG Plen­ty Talk

10 Ker­ine Williams-Fi­garo Tiny Repa­ra­tion

11 Curlis­sa Charles-Mapp Curlis­sa D Cir­cus

12 Can­dice Robin­son Can­dice The strug­gle is re­al

13 Stephen Mar­celle What about us

14 My­ron Bruce My­ron B The Great Na­tion

15 Wendy Gar­rick Sal­vage To­mor­row

16 Stacey Sobers Ca­lyp­so Cap­i­tal

17 Aaron St Louis Voice Year for love

18 Ter­ri Lyons Un Nat­ur­al Caus­es

19 Helon Fran­cis Change

20 Car­los James Skatie Ah Cut­back

21 Tam­mi­co Moore Spicey Muz­zle D Dog

22 Win­ston Scar­bor­ough The Orig­i­nal De Fos­to Him­self Jour­ney of the Vet­er­ans

23 San­dra Des Vi­gnes-Milling­ton Singing San­dra Pow­er in Song

24 Vic­to­ria Coop­er-Rahim Queen Vic­to­ria Shat­tered Home

25 Rod­er­ick Gor­don Chuck Gor­don Cam­paign Truck

26 Bri­an Lon­don I Play­ing Po­lice

27 Roslyn Reid Roslyn The Cry of To­ba­go

28 Joanne Row­ley Ti­gress Row­ley to Row­ley

29 Kurt Allen The Last Bard John of Ca­lyp­so Cir­cle Square Sci­ence

30 Alana Sin­nette-Khan La­dy Watch­man Dead Beat

31 Shirlane Hen­drick­son Prop­er­ty Tax

32 Alex Gift To­ba­go Chalkie Who is Fake

33 Ron­dell Don­awa De Prob­lem

34 Selvon Noel Mis­tah Shak Re­bel­lion

35 Mar­sha Clifton La­dy Adana Let them know

36 Michael Os­ouna Sug­ar Aloes Fi­nal­ly

37 Du­ane O'Con­nor No Front Page

38 Heather Mac In­tosh-Si­mon Heather Mac In­tosh The Sur­vey

39 Hen­son Wright Ca­lyp­so Prince All I Ask

40 Michael Leg­erton Pro­tec­tor We could do bet­ter than that