Get Ready for the First Fete for Carnival 2020!

The countdown to Trinidad and Tobago Carnival is on! Celebrate with CalgarySoca's First Fete for Carnival 2020!

Trinidad and Tobago Carnival season is here! Get familiar with all the new hits at our first official party of the new year!

Make sure F.F.C. 2020 is marked off on your calendar now!
Saturday Feb 8th at Local 522 (522 6Ave SW, Calgary, AB)

Music by Calgary's top Soca DJs: Drew Atlas, DJ Majesti, Avaron & Sherman Hype!

Regular Tickets: $15.00
Limited early bird tix available Monday Jan 13th 10am

Best of 2019 Soca - Year In Review

2019 Soca - Year in Review

Another fantastic year for Soca music in the bag. As is now custom, the entire CalgarySoca crew go through our picks for the most important contributions for Soca in 2019.  From Best producer, riddim, Groovy, Power, Artist, moment of the year, and more, here's our full recap of the absolute best in the artform for the entire year.  See each of our picks in each category below as well as a recap of the major 2019 Carnival winners.

Top 10 Soca Songs 2019 (YouTube plays)

What was the most popular tune for 2019? Where to start? DJ plays? Streaming? Radio? Of all the streaming platforms, Youtube is still the first place that many DJs and fans go to stay up to date so we took our count from there. After tallying the top 5 postings for each song, here are the Soca songs that dominated Youtube this year! 🧐🎼

5 things to be a part of this Carifest Weekend

Machel Montano's LIVE performance is on Friday at Marquee. Tix at: https://machelcarifest.eventbrite.ca but what are you doing for the rest of the weekend? Well we have you a recommended list of events right here.

Pan On The Park - Friday 7pm - 11pm

Machel Montano LIVE - Doors Friday 9pm

Carifest Parade - Moves off at 11 am

Patrice Roberts & Alison Hinds LIVE - Saturday from 4:30pm

Carifest Afterparty - Rodney's Oyster House