PHILIPSBURG:--- Seventeen calypso singers will face off on Monday night, April 16 in the Nagico Senior Calypso Eliminations in Carnival Village. The event will begin 8:00 pm. Ten of the seventeen will advance to the Nagico Calypso Finals on April 26, same venue. Those ten will then try to dethrone the five-time Calypso Monarch Fish Da Mega Boss. Entrance price for each show is US $10.
The 17 singers slated to compete in order of appearance are (subject to change):
Ebony Empress – “We are the survivors”
Tea Pot – “Where do we go from here”
Mighty Dow – “I want to know”
Mighty Chipman – “Baseball Calypso”
The Protégé – “Countdown”
The Wizard – “Ah Vex”
Kaiso Brat – “Drones”
King Barrow – “We Must Believe”
Pensioner – “Yes”
Mighty Dando – “They don’t know how to run a country”
King Beau Beau – “Jam Dem”
Genius – “Back to the polls”
D-Monitor – “St. Maarten name calling”
Baker Jr. – “Shame”
X-Rey – “Don’t come back here”
Repeater – “SXM will rise again”
Mighty Pepper – “Hippopotamus”