Music
A golden fleece looking for another Jason and a few more Argonauts Or is it a double image of the “Sleeping Gypsy” by Henri Rousseau A black wanderer, a mandolin player, lies in the desert beside a water jar Overcome by fatigue she falls asleep under a full moon A lion happens to pass by, […]
Beyond the street there is the street Performers and onlookers start to twerk and shout Farewell to the twist and shout, let’s start something new The Soca and the Reggae music from the sunny islands A wave that came across the Atlantic, a Columbus in reverse At long last… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries Hits: […]
Music and joy are highly contagious in Notting Hill The sidelines catch the fever and become the centre of attraction Let the music play every one will find the beat and his own rhythm And all the colors spilled in the streets, they broke away like Humpty-Dumpty And all the Queens’ men and all the […]
We dance to the music and drink from the bottle And the dancers follow in tune they never skip the beat Only broken hearts do that before they roll into the gutter They lie pell-mell with discarded beer cans and broken glass Making friends… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries Hits: 5
Meeting the succubus with music and booze on Chepstow The choice of no choice between two evils as they say It is a threat or threat trick in a Halloween manner And while you are looking for the candy, the girls dance away Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery Hits: 18
A man in army fatigues walking with a cane A cat looking over his shoulder Oblivious of the crowd and the music And while the world is spinning around He goes his own way unswayed and unnoticed Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery Hits: 17
Wild wild West London on Carnival days Anything goes as girls run out of control Music, drinks and laughter, the tinkle of the broken dreams The difficult labour of forgetting while remembering The spirit, the soul and the inebriation Counting the clouds until nine… Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2012 Carnival Gallery Hits: 12
Proud member of the Calabash Carnival Club Promoting the Caribbean Culture Together with Trinidad and Tobago Grenada is closely associated with the history of Notting Hill Carnival The spirit comes from the culture The culture came on the slave-ships from Africa And in spite of all the efforts of the white slavers They never broke […]
The thunder of the drums take control of your heartbeats You dance with your eyes like a moth around the lamp Night has yet to come so you can shine like a star For the last moments of daylight you follow the music The night will fall upon Carnival and set all demons free We […]
The sidelines offer a mirror of the masquerade with no masks In various degrees of mood and colors The public is an essential element of the show The free nature of the event allows a wide representation People from all walks of life and all origins come to mix in the flow Taking the quantum […]