By Alwyn McGill It was refreshing to see veteran band leaders step up their game for the 50th Anniversary of the Toronto Caribbean Carnival last Saturday. Maybe it was because two week prior to the big ” jump up,” a new band, Venom, won the Junior King of the band title and tied in the […]
Paul Keens-Douglas in Concert with Dance Caribe Performing Company Review by Meegan Scott Celebration, entertainment, therapy, recall and homage in true Caribbean style. An apt description for the concert which brought the Caribbean, its culture and popular artistic performances to Riverdale Collegiate Institute in Toronto with grandeur and flair two Saturdays ago. I had the […]
Okay readers. Quick now. What do you get when you put 65 horses and 124 performers on a 17,500- square- foot stage with a 58,000-square-foot big top, 70 tons of rigging and 40,000 gallons of water? What you get is an extraordinary performance of Odeysseo by Cavalia Last Friday I had the pleasure of witnessing this performance in Mississauga next to […]
Caribbean Tales International Film Festival in association with the Consulate General of Barbados in Toronto will hold its media launch and “Public Festival Reveal” for 2017 and will present the Canadian premiere of A Caribbean Dream at the Royal Cinema, 608 College Street, Toronto, today (Thursday) starting at 6 p.m. A Caribbean Dream which has […]
Border Patrol Part Two Review by Meegan Scott Title Border Patrol Part Two Playwright Andrea Wright Co-directed by David Tulloch Starring Andrea “Delcita” Wright Venue JCA City Toronto Year 2017 Final Show Sunday, June 4, 2017 The next time I am invited to attend a Jamaican Roots Play by Andrea “Delcita” Wright, I’ll buckle my […]
Twemty years ago when veteran pannist Tommy Crichlow went to France on a one-man “cultural mission” he did not know quite what to expect. But soon enough he discovered that the people he met there were amazed by his ” pan playing prowess.” He was able to spark a great deal of t interest among […]
Carnival Nationz is sending “shockwaves of excitement” throughout the Toronto carnival community with the launching of “Oh Canada.” Thousands showed up last Saturday at the mas’ camp at Dynamic Boulevard in Scarborough for the band launch where twelve sections were unveiled. As bandleader Marcus Eustace told the Caribbean Camera, “Oh Canada ” is a celebration of […]
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. […]
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 […]
A review by Meegan Scott Sousatzka, a delightful musical with a different kind of theatrical flow, has come to Toronto at the perfect time. The way in which the Show listens as well as speaks to Toronto through Luca’s rewrite of the original story, “Madame Sousatzka” by Bernice Rubens, and the Drabinsky production is what […]
