Kobo Town Tickets

"Merging calypso, roots reggae, acoustic performance, dub studio techniques and Trinidadian/Jamaican cultures, Kobo Town is a unique, stylistic, transnational composite of rhythm, poetry and activist journalism." - Brent Hagerman, Exclaim!

Founded by Trinidadian/Canadian songwriter Drew Gonsalves, Kobo Town is named after the neighborhood in Port-of-Spain where calypso was born. The area was a site of constant defiance and conflict, a place where sticks and stones, songs and verses clashed with the bayonets and batons of colonial rule. Exploring the rich lyrical tradition and compelling rhythms of calypso, Kobo Town strives to demonstrate the genre's contemporary relevance to the pressing concerns of our time. Since the group's formation in 2004, Kobo Town has performed at festivals and venues throughout Canada and the United States and has also performed live on national and regional radio and TV in the Americas and the Caribbean.