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No Calypso competition for Festival this year!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- A staple item that will be missing from the 2022 Virgin Islands Emancipation Festival is the Calypso Competition.
Hard hitting Calypso expected tomorrow night!
VALLEY, Virgin Gorda, VI - The line-up for the 2017 Virgin Gorda Easter Festival Calypso Competition for Sunday April 16, 2017 promises to bring out the true meaning of the Golden Jubilee’s festivities- “Mass in Musical City for the Fiftieth Anniversary.”
2 eliminated, 6 move to Calypso finals
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Six calypsonians will now be going head to head with the three time and reigning Monarch, Sistah Joyce (born Joycelyn Searles), for the Calypso crown and the grand prize of $6,500.
UPDATE: ‘I put my all into it’ – King Paido
VALLEY, Virgin Gorda, VI – Following a five year win drought, King Paido is ecstatic about winning this year’s Virgin Gorda Easter Festival Calypso Competition early this morning April 6, 2015.
Easter Festival 2015 set for take-off- Jerrell A. George
VALLEY, Virgin Gorda, VI - The hype is on as the Easter Festival Committee at Virgin Gorda sets to kick off celebrations tomorrow April 4, 2015.
Sistah Joyce retains Calypso Crown
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Early this morning July 31, 2014 Ms Joyce Searles who goes by the stage name Sistah Joyce was once again crowned the Queen of Calypso in the Virgin Islands as she said her songs were written from her heart and personal experiences and that she has been ducking from the ‘balls’ of discrimination in real time.
UPDATE: 9 through to battle for Sister Joyce’s Calypso Crown
DUFF’S BOTTOM, Tortola, VI – Not being present to witness performances by some 15 persons who intended to make it through to the finals of this year’s Emancipations Festivals competition was unfortunate, as it was a night that those present did enjoy as they got a sip of bigger things to come on Wednesday July 30, 2014 at the Festival Ground.
Most participants paid before end of Festival – Sasha D. A. Flax
VALLEY, Virgin Gorda, VI – Recounting on some of the things that would have chalked up a ‘plus’ in making the 2014 Virgin Gorda Easter Festival a success is the fact that most of the persons who participated in especially the Calypso competition were able to get their cash monies before the festival ended.
Mighty Ley-Ley snatches Sistah Joyce’s crown!
VALLEY, Virgin Gorda, VI - Calypso 2013 champion Joycelyn 'Sistah Joyce' Searles lost her calypso crown as she was comfortably defeated by two of her challengers: Mighty Ley-Ley and King Paido.
'I was & would never be excluded' - Sistah Joyce
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Joycelyn M. Searles aka Sistah Joyce was in a state of disbelief yesterday when she received several phone calls indicating that another online news agency was reporting that her name was omitted from the list of Calypsonians for the 2014 Virgin Gorda Easter Festival celebrations.
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