Kes The Band to make NPR Tiny Desk Concert debut

Naris­sa Fras­er

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s very own Kes The Band will make its de­but on the high­ly-ac­claimed NPR Tiny Desk Con­cert se­ries. The per­for­mance will air on May 8 at 7 AM on NPR Mu­sic’s YouTube chan­nel.

With an av­er­age month­ly view­er­ship of 44 mil­lion across all dig­i­tal plat­forms, the se­ries of­fers mu­si­cians and singers the op­por­tu­ni­ty to per­form stripped-back, in­ti­mate sets for a small, live au­di­ence.

This will be the sec­ond time a T&T so­ca act will be fea­tured, fol­low­ing so­ca pow­er­house Machel Mon­tano’s 20-minute set in Jan­u­ary 2025.

The per­for­mances are filmed at NPR Mu­sic’s Head­quar­ters in Wash­ing­ton, DC in the US.

The band’s team says it will show­case the “depth, soul and evo­lu­tion” of the its sound af­ter 20 years in mu­sic.

“Through a care­ful­ly cu­rat­ed set along­side spe­cial mu­sic guests, (they) will reimag­ine fan favourites, blend­ing live in­stru­men­ta­tion and rich har­monies that re­flect the band’s Caribbean roots and glob­al in­flu­ence,” rep­re­sen­ta­tives said.

They added that this achieve­ment un­der­scores the band’s con­tin­ued im­pact on the in­ter­na­tion­al mu­sic land­scape “by cel­e­brat­ing Caribbean cul­ture and cre­ativ­i­ty while ex­pand­ing its reach to new au­di­ences world­wide.”