3CANAL 2025
FROM RAPSO TO KAISO.
SWING THE TING.
FROM RAPSO TO KAISO. SWING THE TING.
Photography by maria nunes ©2025
AFTER C0NSCI0USLY BRINGING D0WN THE CURTAIN 0N A GENERATION 0F 0UR J0UVAY INVESTIGATI0N. A DECISI0N FRAUGHT WITH PANGS 0F INCERTITUDE AND MANY WHAT IFS? WHAT NEXT AND H0W NEXT AND WHY NEXT ARE L0GICAL QUESTI0NS AT THIS M0MENT IN TIME A TIME, WHERE WE FIND 0URSELVES AT A PR0VERBIAL CR0SSR0ADS, A TURNING P0INT, A F0RK IN THE R0AD, IN THE W0RDS 0F MARTIN CARTER, “L00KING F0R WHAT IS N0T ANYWHERE, 0R CERTAIN…” W0NDERING, WHERE WE G0ING? IN TIMES SUCH AS THESE, WE ARE F0RCED TO TAKE ST0CK 0F WHAT IS, AND WHERE WE ARE, AND WHAT WE WANT, 0R RATHER WHAT WE NEED AT THIS P0INT IN TIME, T0 C0NTINUE 0N 0UR J0URNEY AND STAY TRUE T0 0UR MISSI0N…
Wendell, Roger, Stanton
3canal kaiso show 2025
JOIN US, AS WE PREPARE TO “LEAVE THE CERTAINTY OF OUR COMFORT ZONE AND HEAD INTO THE BIG UNKNOWN” … AS WE REVEL IN OUR RICH MUSICAL LEGACY AND DIVE HEAD FIRST INTO OUR BOUNTIFUL CALYPSO REPOSITORY TO TELL OUR STORY AND MAKE A STATEMENT NOW. IN THE WORDS OF THE LATE GREAT BROTHER RESISTANCE, “FROM RAPSO TO KAISO, SWING THE THING.”
JOIN US FOR THIS 21ST EDITION OF THE 3CANAL SHOW AS WE “SWING THE THING” AND MAKE SOME STYLE AND ALSO MAKE A STATEMENT OR TWO. STATEMENTS FLAVOURED WITH COMMENTARY; SOCIAL AND POLITICAL. STATEMENTS LACED WITH PICONG AND SATIRE AND PEPPERED WITH PLENTY FIRE AND RIGHTEOUS IRE... EXPRESSIONS FROM THE HEART AND SOUL, FROM RAPSO TO KAISO, LONG LIVE CALYPSO…
FROM THE GRIOT TO THE CHANTWELL, TO THE CALYPSONIAN, TO THE RAPSO MAN AND THE SINGERS OF SOCA IN IT’S MANY ITERATIONS, THE TRADITION LIVES ON, FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION, CONSTANTLY EMBRACING INNOVATION.