During the 19th century Trinidad

Trinidad

Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands and numerous landforms which make up the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. It is the southernmost island in the Caribbean and lies just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela. With an area of it is also the fifth largest in...

ians and other Caribbean

Caribbean

The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...

 islanders began migration to Venezuela

Venezuela

Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

, particularly in the city of El Callao

El Callao Municipality

The El Callao Municipality is one of the 11 municipalities that makes up the Venezuelan state of Bolívar and, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 24,013...

 to work in the gold mines. They brought the music of Calypso

Calypso music

Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago from African and European roots. The roots of the genre lay in the arrival of enslaved Africans, who, not being allowed to speak with each other, communicated through song...

 with them, which later became very popular in the city. The folk music is a mixture of Venezuelan and Caribbean genres and is sung in Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 and/or Caribbean English

Caribbean English

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. It is closely associated with the Carnival

Carnival

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 festival, a tradition also brought by the West Indian people.

Performance

On the carnival months of February and March, Calypso is performed with competitions, where the winners are crowned Calypso King and Queen. Calypso or as the town's people call it "Calipso" is one of the most likeable cultural tradition that the city is well known for by the rest of the country. Popular insturuments used in the performance of the music are the drum

Drum

The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...

s, cuatro

Cuatro (instrument)

The cuatro is any of several Latin American instruments of the guitar or lute family. The cuatro is smaller than a guitar. Cuatro means four in Spanish, although current instruments may have more than four strings....

, maracas

Maracás

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, guitar

Guitar

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, bandolin

Bandolin

The Bandolin is a 15-stringed musical instrument from the country of Ecuador. It is used as a rhythm instrument in the Andean region of Ecuador during festivals where dancing and music are involved. It is a type of mandolin with a flat back and five courses of triple strings...

, violin

Violin

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 and the steel drum.

Bands

1. Bacanal
2. Bolívar Band
3. Calipsos de Oro
4. Caribbean Sound
5. Cuatro y Bumbac
6. Desorden Público
7. Family Ground
8. Jacker y su Banda
9. Kaiko
10. La Rosca
11. Leyendas de la Salsa
12. Los Adolescentes
13. Nueva Generacion
14. Nueva Onda
15. Pueblo
16. Renovación del Calipso
17. The Same People
18. The Young people
19. VIP Show
20. VP Calipso
21. Yuruari's Calipso
22. A-1 Calipso
23. Miguel y sus Muchachos

External links

1. El Callao
2. The Same People

A1 CALIPSO