The Organization of Calypso Performing Artistes (OCPA) of Toronto will stage a monarch competition this year. This was confirmed by OCPA President, Eulith Woods (Calypsonian Macomere Fifi). In an interview this week, she told the Caribbean Camera that the event will be held on Sunday July 29. But the venue is yet to be announced. […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – After a hiatus spanning several years, mas’ icon Peter Minshall is back on the Trinidad Carnival scene. Minshall, well known internationally for his spectacular and sometimes macabre presentations, is producing The Eyes of God for Trinidad Carnival 2018. It’s a sailor band that will be accompanied by the Exodus steelband. […]
Betty John who created carnival history in Trinidad by winning both the national carnival queen contest in Port of Spain and the local queen contest in her hometown, San Fernando, in 1962, died at Bridgepoint hospital in Toronto on November 17 last. She was 75. Her son, Joel, said his mother who suffered from diabetes […]
Chronixx brought a potpourri of souls to Mas Camp Friday evening for his Chronology Tour concert and kept them captive with titillating music, that had them leaving the venue in the wee hours of Saturday morning, in awe of a stellar performance. The young reggae artiste, gave the sold-out venue hits after hits from his […]
Calypsonian Macomere Fifi (Eulith Woods) was elected president of the Organization of Calypso Performing Artistes (OCPA) at a meeting in Toronto on October 25 last. Other officers elected were: Tara Gonzalez – Vice-President; (Cosmos) Henry Gomez – Secretary and (Webb) Hamilton Alexander – Treasurer. The positions of Public Relations and Marketing and Fundraising are yet […]
Arlayne Margaret Shepherd (nee Walker), a former secretary of the Organization of Calypso Performing Artistes (OCPA) who was well known in mas’ making circles in Toronto’s Caribbean community, died on Saturday. She was 87. Carnival aficionados recall that she sewed costumes for the first Caribana parade in 1967 and played mas’ that year. Calypsonian Cosmos […]
A prominent mas’ band leader, a highly talented carnival artist, a Grammy award winner with several soca music hits to his name and a veteran pannist, were among eight persons from Toronto’s Caribbean community who received awards on Thursday night at the FMC (Festival Management Committee) Pioneer Award and Volunteer Appreciation dinner. At this apres-carnival […]
By Lincoln DePradine The Caribana Arts Group (CAG) – formerly known as the Caribbean Cultural Committee (CCC) which organized and ran Caribana –announced on Sunday that it plans to put on a ” Caribbean carnival ” next year in Toronto. “We are planning, in 2018, to create another important platform – a stage, if you […]
Notting Hill carnival in London, often described as Europe’s biggest street party, brought thousands of revellers together during the August Bank Holiday weekend which ended on Monday. At the opening ceremony doves were released in tribute to those who died in the Grenfell Tower fire last June and a multi-faith prayer was said. More than […]
The 12th annual CaribbeanTales International Film Festival (CTFF) opens with a street party in Toronto on September 6 “celebrating the legacy, the people and the beauty of the Caribbean.” According to a CTFF news release, “2017, Clinton Street at College Street in Toronto will be magically transformed with the sights and sounds of the Islands, co-hosted by the Consulate […]
