Carnival Tuesday is the day!!! The day everything
else has been leading toward. Months of preparation and effort, anticipation
and excitement erupt into “pretty mas” as tens of thousands of revellers clad
in spandex, colourful cotton, beads, sequins, feathers, and every other
conceivable material take over the streets of Port of Spain in competition for
the Band of the Year title. 🎶😊
With weeks of partying behind them, many
masqueraders by now are running on pure elation, sustained by the music and the
desire to make it to the big moment when their band crosses the big stage at
the Queen’s Park Savannah. For a while the stage will be theirs; for a while
they know they’re the centre of the world. Tuesday begins at 6:30am, where
there is that hustle to meet your band to begin the day’s events of parading in
the streets for 24 hours. It’s an experience that can’t be put into words.
Flash forward to 11pm Carnival Tuesday
night. You’ve lost the feathered headpiece you started the morning wearing.
Your feet ache and you suspect you may have sprained something in the region of
your waist. There’s a song pounding in your head, and you’ve lost count of how
many times you’ve heard it over the past two days. You can’t stop smiling even
though you know Carnival will be over in an hour.
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