CARNIVAL In Trinidad & Tobago - WI

Where...

   A nation parties and flirts with horizontal integration to enjoy excessive expressions of colour, dance, song, music and sound; in an evolved 250 year tradition that is virtually unparalleled elsewhere! Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago is a whole Nation in Heat.

   ...Calypso Tents, Fetes, Mas’ Camps, Ol’ Mas’, Steelbands, Panyards, Panorama, The ‘Runway’, Dimanche Gras, Kings and Queen of the Bands, The demonstrable Nort’ Stan’, Nite Mas’, J’Ouvert, Jab Jab, Jab Molassi, Moco Jumbie, The Canboulay or Carnival, Fireman dance, Big Trucks, Iron, Ol’ Sailor bands, Mas’ bands, Zanté in Stick fight, Eat, Drink, Love and be Merry, then Las Lap...?

   Through the strongly evolving muli-cultural arena of song presentations; the nation will unravel its choice towards finding the seasons ‘Monarchs’ in the genres of:

   Calypso, Kaiso, Gospelypso, Soca, Chutney Soca, Ragga Soca and Rapso.

   Carnival, the monolith of which the steelbands are only a part. Try these links to sites whose speciality is about this living topic.

Discover Trinidad and Tobago - Carnival

http://www.discover-tt.net/carnival.html

TIDCO's Carnival

http://www.visitTNT.com/Carnival1999/

Carnival as described by Dr Patricia Tamara Alleyne-Dettmers

Discriptive terms of the Real Thing - with an authoritative UK bias

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/9748/
 

To Find out When is the next Carnival Try:

Carnival Dates 1826 to 2124 from The Carnival Dates Project on Tobago Org.

http://www.tobago.org/tandt/carnival/dates/index.htm#2010b

   It would take a library to fully describe the meaning of Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago. It would be better that you were here to find out!

   To say that Carnival is a festival of masquerade that takes place in the streets on the Monday and Tuesday before the Lenten fastings begin on Ash Wednesday; would be the most trivial description ever made on the subject.

   Some persons compare Trinidad and Tobago carnival to that in the streets of Rio de Janerio in Brazil, or the Mardi Gras of New Orleans in the USA.

   On this they are close; but not that close.

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[This reference is a matter of research for these pages]
http://www.tobago.org/carniv1.htm

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