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“Hawks is one of the largest bands we have had continuously and,
of course, not being there they are going to be missed not only
by the revelers themselves and the masqueraders but by the
audience, the thousands and thousands of spectators who come”
Jean Alexander spokesperson for WIADCA Carnival producing
organization told longtime CaribNewsRadio reporter Tony Best.
“In hindsight, if we knew months ago that they were planning to
withdraw and they had come to us, maybe we could have helped in
some way,” Alexander insisted. “But we ourselves - financially,
the West Indian carnival this year are in dire straights. We
lost a lot, a lot of money last year because of the rain. A lot
of our shows were rained out. We still had to pay the artistes
because they were here, even though some of them didn’t perform
and we were left holding the bag. This year, of all years, we
don’t have the operating funds that we could have jumped out
there and give financial help. If we had known months ago,
something could have been worked out. But that’s all water under
the bridge right now. Blaming the West Indian Carnival is not
the right thing.” Desmond Chase, Chairman of the the Hawks organization’s board of directors, gave several reasons for the pullout including taking a shot at the heavy-handedness of the NYPD parade management. He contends the NYPD, virtually controls the parade and “makes major decisions about the flow of the bands and other matters that have little to do with security and safety of the revelers and the spectators.” Mr Chase also called for the WIADCA board to be opened up to vendor and band representatives. “Let me make it clear. We are not seeking a place on the Board for Hawks. That’s not our desire. We want to see the bands as a group, the entertainers as a group and the vendors represented. This is not about the Hawks. It is about the carnival and its success” he said [more at caribworldradio.com] |
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The parade takes place on Labor Day, September 3, and will draw approximately 2 million to Brooklyn.
While we wait for news on the 2007 Carnival, check out the news feed, visit our events section, or see the results for last year's Panorama and Mas competition.
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| Visit our Image Folio for pictures from the 2006 Carnival. | |
| The Honorees for the 5th Annual International Soca Awards SAO: Legend Award This Special Merit Award is presented on occasion by the SOCA AWARDS Organization, Inc. to individuals or groups for ongoing contributions / influence in the recording field. The SOCA Legend Award began in 2004. – 2007 Recipients are: Edson “Ajamu” Mitchell & Austin “Super Blue” Lyons Austin Lyons (1956), better known as
Superblue, Super Blue, and Blueboy, is a Trinidad and Tobago
calypsonian, soca musician and lyricist. Born in Point Fortin,
Trinidad, he became famous from his first foray into the calypso
tent world in 1980 with Soca Baptist a song he penned in 1979. Soca
Baptist also won him his first Carnival Road March Monarch in 1980,
while giving him the biggest win at that time though the magnitude
of that win would be dwarfed by his own subsequent landslide
victories. He went on to win the annual Carnival Road March title
seven times and the Trinidad Soca Monarch (now the International
Soca Monarch) title a record 5 times. |
| June: Caribbean American Month |
| On Wednesday June 27 Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz joined the Caribbean Heritage Event Planning Committee and members of Brooklyn’s Caribbean community civic leaders dignitaries authors artists and others at Borough Hall for a full day of festivities readings exhibitions and colloquia in honor of National Caribbean-American Heritage Month. |
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Home to the
renowned West Indian American Day Carnival and Parade and our
nation’s largest Caribbean population Brooklyn is known as the
“Caribbean Capital of the USA.” “I was ecstatic last year when
June was finally designated as National Caribbean-American
Heritage Month ” said Borough President Markowitz. “Brooklyn’s
current renaissance would have been impossible without Caribbean
Americans.” |
 CARIBBEAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH proclamation by President of the United States [more about National Caribbean-American Heritage Month] |
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