Calgary Soca

The Results are in for the Barbados Crop Over Soca Monarch Competitions . The Sweet Soca and Party Monarch results are in after Sunday's competition that took place at Bushy Park, Workhall in St. Philip.  Blood singing "Ah Can't Wait" took the Sweet Soca Monarch title with the very popular Biggie Irie taking second place followed by Red Plastic Ba g with his song " Right Now ". In the Party Soca Monarch category Soca Kartel won with a song titled "Roll It" .  Mikey took second place with Blood coming in third.  Congratulations to all the competitors!   Sweet Soca Monarch results : Name of Singer Blood Biggie Irie Red Plastic Bag Mikey Name of Song Ah Can't Wait Need A Riddim Right Now Enjoy Meh Life Party Soca Monarch results : Name of Singer Soca Kartel Mikey Blood Khiomal Name of Song Roll It Ready Again Mo Fyah De Recipe The Results are in for the Barbados Cro

With both the Sweet Soca and Party Monarchs going down in Barbados on the weekend, the crew gets into the finalists in both categories for 2013. There is also still no shortage of new music from other Caribbean islands, so we squeeze in a few including a new Bunji Garlin track called 'Streets' Download mp3

The crew continues to celebrate the festivals happening in the city and around the world this week.  In Calgary. heavyweight DJ Sound 'Major Lazer' brought their Caribbean infused EDM vibes to the ' Mad Decent Block Party ',  while the Soca Monarch finals had just wrapped up in St. Lucia the week prior.  Congratulations are in order for 'Ricky T' for capturing the crown in both the ' Power' and ' Groovy ' Categories. To celebrate, Drew played all the winners (1st  through 3rd) in both categories in St. Lucia's annual Soca competition, along with more new riddims, and some Major Lazer sprinkled in. Download mp3 St Lucia Monarch winners: Groovy Results: 1. Ricky T - 40 Days and 40 nights (411 points) 2. Arthur  - Jumping Alone (389 points) 3. Sir Lancelot - The Happy Song (385 points) Power Results: 1. Ricky T - Mass Attack (364 points) 2. DJ HP - Ah Def (328 points) 3. Sir Lancelot - Tear It Up (318 points)

More new music for you this week including a preview of some of the songs competing for St. Lucica's Soca Monarch . We recap the winners of St. Vincent's Monarch competitions and get familiar with more Cropover 2013 music . Download mp3

Drew and Anthony hit the airwaves on Saturday to start off a marathon of Soca music in the city for the Calgary Stampede . The ' Soca Til Sundown' Fete was slated to go on Soho's patio til 11pm when the rain started to fall earlier in the day and although the weather cleared up, we couldn't risk putting the equipment back outside for the night. The good news was that we just moved the party inside with all 6 DJs, and rather than jammin' til 11 we kept the party going til 2:30 in the morning . Download mp3