Kelwyn Hutcheon set for Tobago jazz

Hutcheon has been singing for five decades and is known for hits like Kiss Me for Christmas and covers of Frank Sinatra songs, and will appear at the festival at Turtle Beach Hotel Resort on April 29. He will be accompanied by the Wayne Guerra Trio and will be performing Sinatra’s Come Fly with Me, Just the Way You Look Tonight and Strangers in the Night. In 2015 Hutcheon won the Humming Bird Medal silver, for culture. Other artists on the day include Barbadian smooth jazz and jazz/reggae saxophonist Arturo Tappin.

The annual festival will also feature local pop/soca group Kes the Band, rapper Chromatics, as well as international artistes D’Angelo, Shabba Ranks and Grace Jones, among others.