Mas Bands
The Calabash Carnival Club was created in 2003 The club actively promotes the carnival culture Recognizable at their colorful African pattern costumes And their masks they spray talcum powder on the crowds Their motto is Through colour, we express Through voice, we engage Through dance we celebrate Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival […]
Let the E-go, the stripe becomes a strip and crowds come rushing The girls prepare for their show, the leader wearing love-goggles Here on Chepstow we are on the wild side of the Hill the heart of the happening The mas-bands assemble and summon the hellfire before they start their downhill run Photo Hugh Ardoin […]
Two revelers sporting interesting flag masks strike the pose Wearing the Morris Roots Tears Mas Army gear and drinking punch The fun army is on a rampage following its Mas band music “remix rig” Morris Roots a “loctitian” hair lock and dread London beauty salons Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
Exhausted performers wander aimlessly on the sidelines They take a moment of rest away from the body to body combat Soon the mas bands will recall their troops and it will start all over again The rigs will begin the slow motion forward in a thunder of reggae and soca Hundreds of hands rising to […]