Port-of-Spain, Trinidad – The legends of Trinidad and Tobago’s Carnival season are remembered yearly by Burt Marcellin and his devoted workforce at mas enterprise, Blow Mano Blow Mas. With just some months earlier than the revelry of one other carnival season unfolds, Marcellin has revealed that this 12 months’s presentation, ‘Mama Dis Is Mas,’ is a particular one. He highlights the welcomed involvement of veteran mas maker, Chris Humphrey.
Tribute to Lord Kitchener
On Saturday, September twenty eighth, the Carnival Monday mas band launches its 2025 presentation, which pays tribute to Aldwyn Roberts – the Calypsonian identified world over as, Lord Kitchener. Gone, however definitely not forgotten, Kitchie’s music stays an incredible supply of inspiration for a lot of at this time’s Calypso and Soca artistes.
“I imagine we should hold the legacy of those artistes alive,” stated Marcellin, recalling that out of the seven Brass-O-Rama titles gained by his father, Mano Marcellin, six of those had been achieved by taking part in songs sung by Lord Kitchener. The elder Marcellin was the person accountable for incorporating stay music on music vehicles in T&T’s carnival. “That is our method of carrying on custom, guaranteeing that carnival and the weather that make T&T’s competition a singular one, are usually not forgotten,” stated Burt.
Blow Mano Blow Mas Launch
Forward of 2025, the band launch at Quties- One Woodbrook place, will see an unveiling of 4 sections. On welcoming Humphrey to the Blow Mano Mas operation, Marcellin stated, “It’s an honor to have Chris Humphrey concerned with us this 12 months. He’s a legendary mas maker – a stalwart within the trade.” Doorways opening at 8pm, these attending are in for a deal with, with stay brass music being delivered by Brass 2 The World, accompanied by Sanelle Dempster, Snakey, Sekon Sta and KC.
“We’ve been concerned in a revolution since 2017 in relation to one of these mas and expertise. What we provide is really an expertise on the highway. Our musicians are usually not stationed on the vehicles. They’re within the crowd, taking part in their devices and fascinating with our masqueraders,” Marcellin shared, including that final 12 months’s Monday presentation gained the band the title of Most Authentic Band of the Day- Carnival Monday on the Savannah.
“What I can say is that we’ll be stepping it up in 2025 with one thing very, very totally different,” he teased, assuring that masqueraders selecting Blow Mano Blow obtain large worth in a band that’s price efficient and secure. “It’s all about giving folks another choice in relation to experiencing T&T’s carnival – these individuals who don’t need to pay exorbitant costume costs, these individuals who don’t need to play in outsized mas bands and people music lovers who actually need to expertise stay music on the highway,” stated Marcellin.
Safety of his masqueraders, a focal ingredient of Marcellin’s planning, he has teamed up with the professionals at All Professional Safety, to make sure everybody in Blow Mano Blow Mas, enjoys a secure Carnival Monday 2025. “We’re discussing including cameras to our vehicles, for that added little bit of consolation subsequent 12 months,” he shared.
A most capability crowd of 600 its purpose yearly, Blow Mano Blow Mas is trailblazing in a tradition that’s often punctuated by the idea of evolution. “The historical past of our tradition is wealthy and various. We provide a little bit of each worlds- sharing the vitality of our legends in music, whereas nonetheless welcoming modern methods on Carnival Monday. Our masqueraders take pleasure in a drinks and meals inclusive expertise. We additionally provide moveable washrooms and
our cool-down buses for comfort and total enjoyment,” he highlighted.
‘Mama Dis Is Mas’ Presentation
On this its fifth presentation, ‘Mama Dis Is Mas’, the Blow Mano Blow Mas household is worked up to as soon as once more convey its imaginative and prescient to life on the highway. “Final 12 months, masqueraders had been very proud of the inclusion of The Level Fortin Iron Giants’ on the highway. They performed from the hospital to the Savannah and the masqueraders loved that ingredient,” he recalled.
For Marcellin, that is extra than simply taking part in mas. It’s preserving the legacy of Mano Marcellin- his father, and positively, the musicians and artistes who performed a pivotal position in T&T’s Carnival product.
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