By Murissa Barrington It’s “Celebration Time” for Band leader Louis Saldenah as he launches his Carnival presentation of the same name for 2017. Hundreds packed into the Chandi Grand banquet hall in Toronto Saturday night for the band launch. This year Saldenah’s band will be celebrating both Toronto Carnival’s 50th anniversary and Canada’s 150th birthday. […]
After making mas’ in Canada for nearly half a century, Whitfield Alwyn Belasco is now “looking into the future” for Toronto carnival 2017. In fact his band is called “Looking into D future.” Belasco whose mas’ presentations have been ” on the road” in Toronto every year – except one – since Caribana was first […]
Durham Mas’, led by Jerrol “Stretch” Augustine, presents Canboulay for 2017 Toronto Carnival. Augustine introduced his costumes at his band launching at the Church of the Nativity in Scarborough on Saturday . Now in its third year, the band is ” bringing back “some of the old time carnival characters but will also feature many […]
After ” high scoring ” successes as designer and builder at Trinidad Carnival 2017, Toronto veteran masman Marcus Eustace is getting ready to celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday and the 50th anniversary of Toronto’s Caribbean carnival. And he is planning to get the celebrations ” on the road in fine style” with his 2017 mas’ presentation […]
The Festival Management Committee (FMC) which has been running the Toronto Caribbean carnival for the last ten years, has confirmed that it will be will be putting on the 2017 carnival. Chris Alexander, the FMC’s Chief Operating Officer told the Caribbean Camera that his organization is moving ahead with plans for the carnival next summer. […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Soca enthusiasts will be filing into Mas Camp in St Andrew on Saturday for the start of the 2017 Bacchanal Jamaica season. In addition, revellers will also be introduced to this year’s new and exotic costumes. “Those present will also be introduced to the new partners, new theme, and other new, exciting […]
Time is running out for the staging of the big Caribana bash planned for next Summer. That’s the concern of several members of board of the Caribana Arts Group (CAG) which, after several months, is still locked in negotiations with the Festival Management Committee which has been running the Toronto Caribbean carnival for the last […]
The Festival Management Committee (FMC) which has been running the Toronto Caribbean Carnival for the last ten years, has announced the names of its new nine-member Board of (Directors. But no information about the FMC’s plans for the 2017 carnival was disclosed in a brief media release which was sent to the Caribbean Camera yesterday. […]
The Caribana Arts Group (CAG) which is drafting plans to play the leading role the 50th anniversary of the Toronto Caribbean carnival next summer, is reported to be ” in emergency mode” as it gets ready for a membership meeting on Saturday. Up to press time last night, members of the CAG Board were in […]
Trinidadian artistes Sugar Aloes and Baron, widely regarded as two of most melodious voices in calypso and soca, are returning to Toronto for another performance in the city. The latest, titled “Soca Gold Christmas Extravaganza’’, is on Sunday, November 27, at Chandni Grand Banquet Hall, 3895 McNicoll Avenue, Scarborough. “This show is an early Christmas […]
