On the weekend before Mardi Gras, there are steel band and calypso competitions.

For the purposes of the official calypso competition, though, it is apparent that calypso traditionalists control the show.

Culminating four weeks of calypso competition.

He won the Arima borough council's calypso competition four times between 1938 and 1942.

Union Island holds an annual calypso competition, as well as the Big Drum Festival.

For the entire two months life for many islanders is one big party with a major feature of crop over being the calypso competition.

He returned to Antigua in 1962 and entered his first calypso competition.

The first calypso competitions were held in 1960, and they quickly grew larger and more prominent.

Also included were the year's steel band competitions, calypso competition, King and Queen of the Bands, and a jump up.

Tourists are welcome to partake in the many activities, which include sea baths, story telling, street dancing and calypso competitions.