By Stephen Weir The Saldenah family pulled it off. There was too much at stake. Renowned masquerade bandleader Louis Saldenah and his family were able to get a record number – 2,800 people – into the Scarborough Cinnamon Banquet Hall. They had 120 fancy-dressed models on and off the stage before the bar closed at […]
By Lincoln DePradine Changes could be coming to the seteelband fraternity, although no final decision has been made on several proposals discussed last weekend at a meeting of the Ontario Steelpan Association (OSA). The one idea agreed to, at the meeting in Scarborough of OSA band representatives, was to include “panorama’’ as part of the […]
Epic’s band launch Reaching out to the Freudian Id Photos By Anthony Berot and Gilbert Medina By Stephen Weir If Sigmund Freud had attended Saturday night’s Epic Carnival costume launch, he’d probably would have said that it was an event that reached out not to his Ego, but to his Id. The Id is that […]
By Jáedee S.K. Caines Although the Caribbean island of St. Thomas has not yet fully recovered from the effects of Hurricanes Irma and Maria, which hit the American tropical paradise in September 2017, the island is hosting its annual month-long carnival. This year’s carnival, which started on April 6, is organized under the theme “Culture, […]
By Stephen Weir Photographs by Stephen Weir Two mas’ men went head-to-head on Saturday night and both came out winners, each in his own way. Toronto Raptors celebrity Jamaal Magloire (Toronto Revellers) and Will Morton (Fantazia) took two different approaches in showing off the costumes that members of their bands will be wearing on the […]
As Toronto Carnival bandleaders start launching their 2019 mas’ presentations, the Caribana Arts Group (CAG) has renewed it call for membership as well as for greater community and youth engagement. In a news release, issued this week, the CAG, noting its priorities, stated that “a strong and stable organization is evidenced by its membership.” It […]
By Stephen Weir Tribal Carnival was out of the starting blocks early Saturday morning night with the first Toronto band launch for 2019. A non-stop parade of stunning male and female models strutted across the Grande Luxe ballroom stage in North York to show an enthusiastic audience what revellers will be wearing on the road […]
Editorial Reclaiming the festival Some people describe The Caribbean Camera as the “Carnival paper.” Of course, we do publish more news about the Toronto Caribbean carnival than any other paper in Canada’s largest city. And for us, Caribana is never a forgotten word. But while we present our readers with a wide range of stories […]
The first Toronto Caribbean Carnival band launch for 2019 will be held on Friday night when Tribal Carnival takes to the stage at North York’s Grande Luxe Ballroom on Bayview Avenue. The mas`presentation, billed as the Caribbean Carnival Runway Show, is scheduled to start at 11.30 pm. This year`s costumes are based on the theme […]
Stephon Alexander, a physics professor at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and president of the National Society of Black Physicists in the United States, will address a symposium on “the science of the steelpan” at the University of Toronto on Monday. Alexander who is a also jazz musician and author of The Jazz of Physics: The […]
