This performance will represent some of the best music that Trinidad & Tobago has produced.Sami Yusuf (born 21 July 1980) is a British singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer.
The Humboldt State Calypso Band prides itself in maintaining an accurate and authentic connection to the roots of the steel band movement and the innovative musicians of Trinidad & Tobago, the island nation on which this unique percussion phenomenon was born. The Calypso Band will continue its 35th year celebration this fall by featuring several high-energy compositions from the Caribbean in their set, including the modern Panorama classic from the island of Trinidad called VISION 2020 by Len “Boogsie” Sharpe. For over a third of a century, the Calypso Band has been performing and entertaining local audiences and has proven to be one of Humboldt County’s favorite musical ensembles. It is significant to note that last spring the Calypso Band celebrated its 35th year of existence at Humboldt State University, all under the direction of its founder, Dr. The second half of the show will feature the festive dance music of the Humboldt State Calypso Band. The first half of the show will end with a suite of traditional Afro-Cuban music performed by the HSU World Percussion Group under the direction of Howard Kaufman, all performed on traditional folkloric instruments. As such, Ogoun is mighty, powerful and triumphal, yet is also known to exhibit the rage and destructiveness of the warrior whose strength and violence must not turn against the community he serves. He is also prominently represented as Saint George in the syncretic traditions of contemporary Brazil. Ogoun is the traditional warrior and is seen as a powerful deity of metal work, similar to Ares and Hephaestus in Greek mythology and Visvakarma in classical Hinduism. He is the patron of smiths, and is usually displayed with a number of attributes: a machete or sabre, rum and tobacco. In Haitian Vodou, Ogoun is a loa and orisha who presides over fire, iron, hunting, politics and war. Also featured on the show will be Christopher Rouse’s engaging and bombastic composition Ogoun Badagris, which is based on Haitian ritual rhythms to the deity, Ogoun.
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