Caneisha Edwards playing The Flamingo Queen in Dexter Seusahai’s Paradise at the Toronto Caribbean Junior Carnival in Scarborough on Saturday. More than a dozen bands took part in the parade. Junior Carnival 2016 winners Carnival Nationz was adjudged Band of the Year at the Toronto Caribbean Carnival’s 2016 Junior Carnival Parade. Band theme: The Nest. […]
Carnival revellers took to the streets of Regina on Saturday for the 10th annual CariSask parade put on by the Saskatchewan Caribbean Canadian Association (SCCA). CariSask which is modelled after the Trinidad carnival, brought together people from various parts of the Caribbean community in the province of Saskatchewan. A large flatbed truck covered in the […]
The Organization of Calypso Performing Artistes (OCPA) of Toronto has announced the finalists and their order of appearance for the 2016 Calypso Monarch Competition to be held at the Latvian Canadian cultural centre in East York on Sunday July 24. A news release from OCPA says there is ” a new format” this year for […]
To a soca beat, more than a hundred young masqueraders, like the one in the picture above, delighted the crowds at the Malvern Town Centre in Scarborough on Tuesday last at the costume launch of the Toronto Junior carnival. The masqueraders came from the 14 bands which will be at the junior carnival parade in […]
In a spectacular blaze of colour, under a blazing sun, Toronto Caribbean carnival 2016 was launched yesterday at Nathan Phillips Square. Officially opening the festival was Toronto Mayor John Tory. Onstage were more than 100 models in costume from no fewer than 12 mas’ bands as the rhythmic sounds of soca, the steelband and tassa […]
Soca superstar Machel Montano has taken his fast-paced jump up music to the White House. Strumming a cuatro, Montano, who is considered Trinidad and Tobago’s leading soca artiste, sang his 2009 hit ” Dance with you” to a delighted audience at the home of the President of the United States. He was one of several […]
Last weekend two calypso tents opened in Toronto, heralding the beginning of the city’s carnival season. The Professionals, back at the Steel Workers Hall, saw the return of Montreal’s and St. Lucia’s Dennis James, four-time calypso monarch. James was among a strong contingent of singers returning for another exciting season. On Sunday, Kaiso Forum pitched […]
Toronto Raptors assistant coach, consultant and team ambassador Jamaal Magloire recently held his third annual all-inclusive “RSVP: Garden Galavant”. Magloire who also serves as bandleader for Carnival mas band Toronto Revellers is a tireless supporter of Caribbean culture and celebrated his birthday in fine style while raising funds for the non-profit organization, The Children’s Breakfast […]
The sun is out. The mas camp elves are busy bending wire. The pans are already ringing their merry tunes around the city pan yards. And the kaiso men and women are honing and massaging their new compositions in the tents in the quest to take the throne from reigning Monarch Macomere Fifi. Tropical Rhythms […]
Canadian born and Trini to de bone Azalea Zoe Hart, the face of Toronto Caribbean Festival 2016, told The Camera at the media launch, “I want people to respect the Mas and not storm the bands as they are going down the road. “Pay and play during the Grand Parade on July 30, from the […]
