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CAFE STUDIO 5 209A, COLDHABOUR LANE, LONDON, United KingdomWhat a normal summer looks like for S.i.A What S.i.A has been up to over the last 6 months... Click here
What a normal summer looks like for S.i.A What S.i.A has been up to over the last 6 months... Click here
Master of the mas Will Peter Minshall produce another Carnival band? Since his last outing some four years ago, Trinidad and Tobago’s leading living masman has shown no signs of rejoining the decreasingly creative fray. As he nears his seventieth birthday, the speculation that we may have seen the last of Minshall increases, though many […]
The history of paradise: on Peter Minshall’s Paradise Lost It’s the stuff of Carnival legend: the eruption of masman Peter Minshall’s Paradise Lost on the streets of Port of Spain, forty years ago. Now a new documentary, using long-forgotten archival footage, brings the band back to life. Ray Funk tells the story © MEP Publishers […]
How did I become a carnivalist? - Celia Burgess Macey This is quite a long story . My first exposure to the culture of carnival and of Trinidad in particular was in 1964 #siasummer20nhc#siafamilymystory Click Here From the band -Dance of Jouvert... de People, of this Earth - S.i.A 2018 Photo by Donna Travis
#siasummer20nhc#siafamilymystor 1983. Meeting the Midnight Robber Celia Burgess Macey It was carnival time. Whilst I was walking up Frederick Street I was accosted by an old man and two children all dressed in Robber costumes. He looked me straight in the eyes, displaying a knowing twinkle, and held me at gunpoint while he recited a long […]
