Carnival costumes it seems, have been producing more and more revealing and sexy costumes in recent years. For the year 2010 Ramajay Mas seems to be taking it one step futher and catering to female masqueraders with their carnival theme "La Femme".  There are some men that will probably have no problem with going to "wine" down eastern parkway wearing a shiny, glittery carnival costume under the banner "La Femme: Reveal the Mystery of Woman", but what kind of man is that? On the other hand the celebration of woman, and womanhood prevails in this theme so lets give their carnival costumes a look see. I can tell you, they will not disappoint you. These are by f...

Borokeete is always one of the most exiting bands on Eastern Parkway for the Carnival Parade in New York. This year they are back to business as usual with their lovely costumes. Borokeete USA Ball Ah Confusion in Concrete Jungle presentation for 2010 Annual NY Labor Day Carnival Parade is bound to be astonishing! Check out the message straight from one of their most innovative leaders, and a peek at their costumes for this year. Borokeete USA EXCITED AFTER WINNING ALL THREE FIRST PLACE TITLES IN 2009. We are coming back even stronger with our 2010 presentation: Ball Ah Confusion in Concrete Jungle Where Dreams Are Made OF for the Annual West Indian Labor Day...

Jewels De Carnival, For Notting Hill Carnival have some of the nicest and sexiest costumes now. The Aquamarine is a bright, beautiful color, its acutally palette perfect. Meaning its not very much dull, and just bright enough. Their backline for female comes with Tankini & Bikini. Their Males carnival costumes are also complete and full. Including mask and all. The Front Line can rival even Trinidad Carnival. The beautiful Aquamarine features stand out! The theme this year for Notting hill Carnival 2010, is the Portrayal Oceania. Paying tribute to the past twenty years by burrokeets UK, or is that borokeete uk?. Come be part of this rising t...

As I prepare my costume and my accessories for the big show…I am playing my road playlist on my Ipod dock and mentally preparing myself for the bacchanal. Below are the verses that raise my pores and have me “bouncing on the spot”! See you on the road and please be safe out there! Those of you who can’t be here, I promise to have No Behaviour in your honour! Palancing when we on the road!!!! “It’s Carnival” Carnival in T&T is so special to all of we Like we need blood in we veins That’s how we feel about Port of Spain We reach the stage we warming up…put your hands them in the air We gearing up To take BA...

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Beyonce… I Am… and ISLANDpeople Mas ISLANDpeople Mas is pleased to announce that its masqueraders will exclusively be allowed to purchase specially priced General Admission tickets for Beyonce’s… I Am Concert, at the amazingly low price of $300.00TTD. Don’t miss out on this once in a lifetime chance to see Beyonce live on stage in Trinidad and Tobago alongside our very own Machel Montano HD in his first performance for the season! Tickets are available at the Distribution Centre only, starting from tomorrow Saturday 6th February. Contact the Mas Camp at 628-1FUN (1386) for further information! Islandpeople Mas… the fun has just begun! Filed unde...

Costume Distribution has begun in some bands and will be continuing through next Friday 12 February 2010. In most cases uncollected costumes will forfeit deposit and be sold on Saturday 13 February 2010. The majority of bands seem to be also requiring a copy of a valid ID if you are purchasing or collecting a costume from/for a masquerader that is not present. CARNIVAL TRIBE COSTUME DISTRIBUTION & PICK UP ISLAND PEOPLE MAS COSTUME DISTRIBUTION & PICK UP SPICE CARNIVAL COSTUME DISTRIBUTION & PICK UP PULSE 8 CARNIVAL COSTUME DISTRIBUTION & PICK UP Please note these 2 changes to Pulse 8: – phone number: 627-8330 and  times are from 1pm to 6pm ...

Bacchanal Carnival season in Jamaica officially begins on February 5, 2010 with the opening of Bacchanal’s Mas Camp Village on Oxford Road in Kingston. The theme for carnival 2010 is “Bacchanal Treasures”. Each and every Friday night until March 26, the Mas Camp will be the place to be for great vibes and good fun. What is also great news is that ticket prices will be the same as last year, allowing the bacchanal faithful to fete at an affordable price. The Mas Camp opens on Friday, Feb 5 and there will be fetes each and every Friday night, 8pm – 2am leading up to the Road parade on April 11, 2010. Telecommunications giant Digicel is on board...

Say the word Carnival to almost anyone in the world, and they think Brazil! If you love Carnival, you have to at the very least be fascinated by Brazil. Carnival in Brazil sets the bar for all of the pre-Lenten Carnival celebrations in the world. Carnival was originally a pagan custom during which the people would celebrate the arrival of spring. Christian culture with all its restrictions was still hard pressed to do away with the popular custom and instead incorporated it into their religious traditions. Brazil Carnival begins four days before Ash Wednesday, which is the start of the Lenten season. During Lent, Christians prepare for Easter Sunday by fasting or ...

“UNDER The Trees – Carnival 2010, a series of shows hosted at the Hotel Normandie’s popular open-air venue in St Ann’s, gets going on January 27 and continues until Carnival Saturday. The series gets going with the production “Prelude to J’Ouvert” which will be staged in collaboration with celebrated local musicologist Dr Pat Bishop. The spotlight will be on extempo calypso on January for the show “Extempo at its Best” co-produced by a master of that artform Gypsy (Winston Peters). Then on February 4 there will be Question Mark Entertainment’s “Kes The Band in Concert”. See the rest of the ...

Hopefully you people out there appreciate all the work that goes into putting up all these photos and costumes, and sections From all These mas bands. It is hard. Ok, Enough venting, part 2 of these costumes include another favorite. It's not light weight like Serica, but there is something about it being so damn blue that is captivating. The Mystery of Loulan, not a big feathers person, do not really need frontline either, but for all of you front liners, this is the way to go it seems. Not really sure what the men are wearing, it kind of looks like something you would see on someone that makes a certain kind of video, *wink*, but the colors compliment the female co...

2010 is upon us, and Tribe Carnival aims to deliver. Sold out sections, in the first weekend, back orders, trades, all the madness that is included with playing mas with Tribes. Well, here is what all the fuss was about. When we first saw their line up for Trinidad Carnival 2010, the response was Fire Over Chiney Kitchen full stop, and not in the bad way. Their costumes were breath-taking, as well as provocative. Some mas sections were better than others, but our favorite so far is Serica. Here are the Tribe Carnival Sections for Trinidad Carnival 2010: Serica [flickr-gallery mode="photoset" photoset="72157623031776413"] Osage [flickr-gallery mode="pho...

Great Costumes this year for Hart's 50th, Congratulations! See you For Trinidad Carnival 2010! The Carnival Networks' Editor's Pick For Costumes will be coming up soon. But for now, I think our favorite of these displayed in part 2 are , LATIN FIRE! Of course, The Brazilian reference is sort of put off-ish, however, The colors are fantastic! Runners' up are Mexico- The Mayans, and Butterflies and Moths.  You don't see simple nice pink costumes too much these days, I think they will do well for Trinidad Carnival, for all those traveling down. Our Worst pick...Sorry to say is Lets Make Waves...Really don't see much of a Costumes here at all. Here are the rest of ...

Here it is for your viewing pleasure. Harts Costumes to be seen on the road For Trinidad Carnival 2010. Of course we have our favorite costumes for Part 1. In Trinidad for Harts We like, Life in The Waters, Earth Crisis. Love the Message of this section, Love the beautiful blue. Definitely a hot number. That's all from this section. Part two of our costumes have more pics. Worst costume in this list is Was This Greece. Sorry, Not much Culture with Greeks, does not make much sense. The sections displayed here will be: Harts Carnival Costumes 2010... was this greece - before 2000 tribes - wild thing total recal - 50 the unknown - superstitions the etruscans - ...

Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana is one of the most famous Carnival celebrations in the world. As is the case with many Carnivals, the New Orleans Carnival season has its roots in preparing for the start of the Christian season of Lent. In New Orleans the season consists of parades, balls and king cake parties. The festivities are concentrated for about two weeks before and through Fat Tuesday (Mardi Gras in French), the day before Ash Wednesday. There is usually a major parade each day with many days having several large parades. Carnival parades in New Orleans are prepared by Carnival krewes. The organizers on the krewe floats toss strings of plastic colorfu...

French Antilles, Guadeloupe, dancer in carnival outfit Photographer: Sylvain Grandadam The colorful Carnival on Guadeloupe lasts for five days. The largest parades of the Carnival take place on Shrove Sunday, Tuesday’s Mardi Gras and Ash Wednesday. Shrove Sunday begins with parades, dancing, costumes, masquerades and street parties. On Shrove Tuesday, pajama clad masqueraders dance throughout the day. Guadeloupe’s Carnival is unique in that it finishes on Ash Wednesday. On Ash Wednesday revelers dress up in black and white as he and she wolves and take to the streets. The Carnival comes to a close in the evening, with the cremation of King Vaval....

This Essequibo Islands/West Demerara costume depicted the golden sunshine days’ for Guyana at yesterday’s annual Mashramani Float Parade. (Photo by Jules Gibson) Mashramani aka “Mash”, stems from the Arawak Amerindian word ‘Mashirimehi’, which means “co-operative effort”. The now annual festival was first celebrated on Feb 23rd, 1970 in the mining town of Linden in celebration of Guyana’s becoming a Republic in 1970. February 23 is now Guyanese Republic Day, and the Mash includes a parade, music, games and cooking. There are costume competitions, floats, masquerade bands, and dancing in the streets to the accom...

Line Up…Line them up…Line up…Line them up D’Krewe Carnival Band has announced the line up for “Salvaje”  on de road for Carnival 2010 1. Rainforest 2. Desert  3. Riptide  4. Soufriere 5. Hawk 6. Zulu 7. Comancheros  8. Tsunami 9. Yellow Fever 10. Passion 11. Venom 12. Kindred Spirit 13. Sorcerers Find out more here. Posted in Trinidad Carnival 2010, Uncategorized Tagged: bands, Carnival, Carnival 2010, Carnival 2k10, costumes, dance costumes, mas, parade, Trinidad ...

       Tribe Mas band from Trinidad Carnival launched in New York City for their 2010 line up. Although there was no registration at the event attendees still enjoyed the costumes and the party. About 8 of the costumes were there but, no there weren't any male or front line costumes. . The sections that were there were Charmeuse, Xi Ling, Habotai, Ossage, Lapis Lazuli, Mulberry, Tyrian Purple and Zari. [gallery=58] Click Here to See the Costumes...

      "Nice Costumes", "Great Costumes" "I really like that one","I buying dat!", thats what the people were cheering as the Borokeete models displayed their costumes. For Labor day 2010 there is noshortage of new mas bands. However, one of the oldest bands Borokeete showed why they were still one of the best carnival bands around.   The Band launching took place in Brooklyn New York. This year Borokeete celebrates Indian heritage with sections like Phagwa. Already making headlines in the Trinidad Guardian, Borokeete is off to a strong start this labor day. By securing sponsorships from Caribbean Airlines, there may not be a better choice for�...