source: Working for the Yankee Dollar --Calypso and Calypsonians in North America 1934 - 1961

"I'm Ready For My Youtube Close-Up, Mr. De CAstro.
posted by: Posted by Michael Eldridge on February 25, 2011

"Trinidadian who migrated to Montreal in the fifties and started a calypso band."

A recent interview that was done with a Trini expatriate in Canada....

As you can see long before Trinidadian artist started 'visiting' North America in an attempt to 'spread' our culture..... some expatriates who were living abroad were actively 'sharing' our culture.



.... 1969 Canadian Calypso King Dave “Bandit” De Castro’s YouTube debut earlier this week (see below) inspired me to dig out the telephone interview I had with him back in December 2009, when I was living in Ontario.

There may not be much here that isn’t already in De Castro’s memoir, Stories, self-published earlier in 2009 from his home in Florida. But “Bandit” is a delightful storyteller and a gregarious interviewee, and his recollections of the early history of calypso in Canada in the 1950s and 60s, in particular, deserve a wider audience. And so here is more or less the entire interview, a brief excerpt of which appeared in a previous post:

http://yankeedollar.wordpress.com/20...-mr-de-castro/