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CARNIVAL ACTION The
Caribana Festival™ is an exciting two-week cultural explosion of Caribbean
music, cuisine, revelry as well as visual and performing arts. In its 40th year
it has become a major international event and the largest cultural festival of
its kind in North America. As Carnival is an international cultural phenomenon,
the great metropolis of Toronto and its environs will come alive as the city explodes
with the pulsating rhythms and melodies of Calypso, Soca, Reggae, Hip Hop, Chutney,
Steel Pan and Brass Bands. This colourful exhibition and display of genius is
truly a musical panorama that is certain to bring a pleasing smile to the ancestral
titans of Pan and Calypso music. Caribana
Festival is an expression of Toronto’s multicultural and multiracial society.
An increasing number of attendees and participants come from the US and overseas.
The events are planned months in advance. The costumes and mas band displays are
elaborate and oh so delicately worn and designed for movement. Move they do, in
a breath-taking spectrum of colours that is best refl ected in the King and Queen
Showcase on Parade Day. No Caribana Festival is complete without African Drumming
along with the Arts and Crafts displays celebrating “Things Caribbean”!
In 2007, the
Caribana Festival season is destined to be six (6) weeks culminating in the pinnacle
of Parade Day on the Lakeshore with a kaleidoscope of music, colourful costumes,
theatrical mas band displays, steel bands beating intricate orchestrations coupled
with mouth watering feasts of Caribbean cuisine and delicacies. www.caribanafestival.com ^
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