{"id":2488,"date":"2010-01-25T08:26:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T14:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/?p=2488"},"modified":"2012-02-18T14:04:58","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T18:04:58","slug":"improvement-in-calypsos-expected-ahead-of-february-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/entertainment\/improvement-in-calypsos-expected-ahead-of-february-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Improvement in calypsos expected ahead of February finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2527\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2527\" style=\"width: 277px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/karessa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2527\" title=\"karessa\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/karessa-277x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2527\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calypso King Karessah at a last year calypso show dressed as a priest singing Pastor&#39;s Rod <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An official of the Dominica Calypso Association is promising an improvement in the quality and content of calypsos closer to the calypso finals on February 13, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had to jump start the calypsos because we had elections and that put a damper in the initial stages; but I think when the semi final takes place, calypso will catapult itself to a new level,\u201d Public Relations Officer of the Dominica Calypso Association Ian Jackson said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Jackson, the 2009 election campaign also interfered with the lyrical content of the 2010 calypsos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome persons had to go back and re-write their lyrics because most persons wrote not thinking that elections would have taken place. Even some of the songs that you are hearing now you can still see some instances and innuendos of that,\u201d he revealed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An official of the Dominica Calypso Association is promising an improvement in the quality and content of calypsos closer to the calypso finals on February 13, 2010. \u201cWe had to jump start the calypsos because we had elections and that&#8230;","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[68,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carnival","category-entertainment"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Improvement in calypsos expected ahead of February finals - 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