One Mummer club’s partnership with a Caribbean Carnival band could pave the way for more collaborations in the future.
This year's festival will see participants wearing iconic carnival costume pieces from over the last 50 years Preparations are underway for a city's 50th Caribbean carnival celebrating all things ...
Centuries later, my hope is that the importance of these traditions is not lost in the rising commercialization of Carnival. Caribbean people have always proudly crafted costumes, attended lively ...
Carnival is something you have to experience for yourself. From dancing to Soca and Calypso to dressing up in intricate and ...
Slavery was abolished in the Caribbean in 1838, and the liberated people now fully embraced carnival as their own. Their Mas costumes were often based upon West African myths and were mostly scary ...
This carnival costume was worn in the Children's Parade of the 2001 Brighton Festival.The carnival tradition comes from the Caribbean plantations where colonisers practised European Catholic and ...
But in parts of the Caribbean, Carnival—known as Carnaval in Brazil ... against a backdrop of pulsating pageantry and parody. Costumes and songs provide social commentary and political critique.
It was established as a remedy for homesickness for those who migrated from the Caribbean. Hughbon Condor worked on the carnival king and queen costumes for this year's event alongside his son and ...