Entertainment Carnival
CARNIVAL UPDATE
Presented by Oliver Samuels “Puppy Love”
Brooklyn’s Labor Day West Indian Carnival 2010 is in full swing and thousands of visitors from across the U.S., Canada, UK and the Caribbean are in Brooklyn for the event.
SATURDAY, SEP. 4
Saturday afternoon main event is the Junior Carnival at the Brooklyn Museum grounds.
The panorama at the Brooklyn Museum grounds on Saturday evening is expected to attract about 50,000 steelband lovers. They will support their favorite steel orchestra in the fierce competition as each orchestra tries to dethrone Sonatas, the 2009 panorama champs.
Private shows continue all over Brooklyn. On Friday evening former Grenada’s Prime Minister Keith Mitchell was amongst several personalities at Friday Nite Spice Mas featuring the top Grenadian soca artists. Fans enjoyed the performances of all the artists especially King Ajamu.
SUNDAY, SEP 5
The main event is the Dimanche Gras show at the Brooklyn Museum grounds where the major costumes of each band, King and Queens of the Bands will compete. On the musical side King David Rudder is the feature attraction.
SOCCER
The Caribbean Cup competition will climax on Sunday afternoon at Jefferson HS playing field when St. Lucia and Jamaica will compete for the cup.
LABOR DAY
New York State top officials including Governor David Paterson and Mayor Mike Bloomberg will lead the carnival down Eastern Parkway at 11am. Police estimate about 1. 2 million revelers and other persons will be in the carnival.
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Brooklyn Carnival 2010
Mayor Mike Bloomberg recently launched Brooklyn’s Carnival 2010 at a gala reception at Gracie Mansion. A few weeks before, His Honor played a note or two on the steelpan at the Mayor’s Cricket Cup Reception. The steelpan is an integral part of carnival.
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Caribbean entertainment at Winter Olympics
February 17, 2010
The Caribana contingent standing on the steps of the Ontario Pavilion, site of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. Photo Credit: Roborta Atkinson.
Many Caribbean nationals living in Vancouver, Canada are playing behind the scene roles in the Winter Olympics. Several are on various committees helping in transportation, hospitality and entertainment.
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Final day of Carnival & Mardi Gras
February 16, 2010
At midnight carnival in Rio, New Orleans, Trinidad and Tobago 2010 ends making way for the arrival of Ash Wednesday and the beginning of the Lenten or Holy season observed by Christians worldwide.
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No More Wee-Wee or P-Pee Trucks In Trinidad's Carnival
October 4, 2009
Massive bands in Trinidad’s carnival parade on Carnival Monday and Tuesday usually have large flatbed trucks carrying portable toilets for masqueraders to help themselves when the urge to seek a toilet cannot wait. Effective in the 2010 carnival, portable toilets on trucks are banned. The other flatbed truck carrying food will continue but the food must be consumed by masqueraders within four hours of the food arrival on the truck.
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