Who can hear Calypso song Matilda or Gooseneck Handlebars without tapping their feet and humming along?Fans of this tropical style of music can revisit all their old favourites at the upcoming Bermuda Calypso Festival to be held at Fourways Inn in Warwick next month.A host of music veterans will perform including June Caisey, Stan (Lord Necktie) Seymour, and Rueben (Lord Flea) McCoy, Brent Wilson, King Trott, Rudy Ford, David Moniz and Duke Joell.“This will be a festival of legends,” said organiser Dale Butler. “I had mentioned the possibility of a calypso festival to Stan Seymour and June Caisey, and they were very encouraging. We decided we needed to do something, and that something grew beyond all my expectations. I didn’t realise we had so many calypso performers of their calibre in Bermuda.”The event promises to be so popular that already people are saying the festival should have been split into two nights instead of one. Organisers have received support from the Bermuda Arts Council.“There are so many of us qualified entertainers who are not working,” said Rudy Ford. “It is a pleasure to do this along with Dale and the rest of the guys.”Ms Caisey said she isn’t known as a calypso singer, but she does often sing calypso songs for senior citizens at the Packwood Home and Lefroy House in Sandys.“We really enjoy it,” she said. “Calypso is love. Everyone just lights up like a Christmas tree when they hear calypso music. You can’t keep still when you do calypso. So we are going to surprise everyone with Rueben McCoy’s help and everyone will have fun.”Mr McCoy said during Bermuda tourism’s heyday he would often perform calypso at cocktail parties, hotels and barbecues.“It is part of Bermuda’s make-up,” he said. “You can’t have the forest without the trees (Meaning you can’t have a tourism industry without something to offer). Calypso songs like Matilda really take me back to my youth.”Stan Seymour wrote one of Bermuda’s most beloved calypso songs ‘The Diddly Bobs and the Gooseneck Handlebars’ about teenagers and their motorbikes. The song was so popular it was done in Barbados by The Merrymen where it was a hit.“I think it was one of the few calypso songs written in Bermuda to be a hit in the Caribbean,” said Mr Seymour. “My grandfather, James Seymour, was a one-man band back in the day and played the guitar and the harmonica. I think that is where I got my musical talent from. I think the Bermuda Calypso Festival is going to be a very successful event.”As part of the festival several of Bermuda’s musicians will be inducted into the Bermuda Musical Hall of Fame including Rudy Ford, David Moniz, Duke Joell and Brent Wilson.The Bermuda Calypso Festival will be held on October 6 at Fourways Inn from 6pm to 9pm. Tickets are $65 and include dinner. Tickets are available from Fourways Inn and the Music Box on Reid Street in Hamilton.