The man Brian MacFarlane
Last Carnival, Brian MacFarlane won a beaver trick for the Band of the Year (Large) at the mecca of mas, the Queen’s Park Savannah,...
Rituals of resistance: the Canboulay Riots re-enactment
At 5 am on the Friday before Carnival, on a dark street in downtown Port of Spain, over 100 performers re-enact and celebrate the Canboulay...
Music for the mas
Up-and-comers She’s been in the junior calypso arena since she was nine. Now 18, former Junior Calypso Monarch Megan Walrond is hitting...
Trinidad Carnival Diary: Carnival 365 days a year
At the age of five, Saucy Diva donned her first costume, and though she preferred Wonder Woman to the clown costume her mother chose, she...
Past masters of the mas
Traditional Carnival characters have been relegated to the periphery of Carnival in Port of Spain, laments Abigail Hadeed. She’s been...
Behind the Trinidad Carnival curtain
Any conversation about Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago inevitably turns to the excitement and colour of Monday and Tuesday, the indelible...
Carnival captured
Carnival is colour, the old cliché goes. Carnival is music. Carnival is bacchanal. Movement. Energy. Art. Excitement. “The greatest show...
Creatures of the mas
The January/February 2004 issue of Caribbean Beat paid tribute to the major designers of the “pretty mas” era of Trinidad Carnival. A year later, Dylan Kerrigan pays tribute to the creatures of the mas
