Early final week, Louis Saldenah promised the Caribbean Digital camera that he was planning to placed on a “HUGE Band Launch” on Saturday night time. When the doorways opened at his 2024 costume showcase on the Grand Cinnamon Banquet & Conference Corridor in Scarborough, it was apparent he had stored his phrase (after which some).
“We had roughly 1,100 folks attend our band launch final Saturday night time,” Saldenah informed the Caribbean Digital camera. And Saldenah hasn’t stopped considering huge. Tonight (Thursday 25, April), Half Two hits with the official opening of the Saldenah Mas Camp in Scarborough.
This 12 months, Saldenah Carnival has 16 sections, and most had men and women displaying their stuff at Saturday night time’s occasion. The theme for the night was Sky Excessive, so it was becoming that the fashions who got here flying had been, for probably the most half, bedecked in vibrant feathers.
There was a T-shaped stage at one finish of the corridor, permitting spectators, most of them holding cell telephones up excessive, to see the present from three completely different sides. Though there was a little bit of a look forward to the present to begin, it was value it. The fashions that danced down the catwalk had clearly rehearsed. It wasn’t all costumes. A number of occasions throughout the present, entertainers like King Cosmos, head of OCPA, and well-liked calypso singer, appeared on stage. As properly, politicians together with Metropolis Councillor Michael Thompson and Ana Bailão, a former mayoral candidate, made their approach onto the catwalk. Officers from the Pageant Administration Committee had been there as properly.
The response to the whole lot on stage was heat, however not everybody favored what they noticed on this 12 months’s costume design. A number of complaints from carnival-goers cropped up after the launch, together with one from Claire Gloria Sandy, who posted an oft-repeated query/criticism: “Who’s designing these rubber band and elastic costumes? So fed up with seeing ladies’s cracks (with strings) up their butts.”
However should you take a look at the viewers photos, you will notice that most people taking within the present are ladies, and judging by the cheers, they favored what they noticed. Folks desirous to order costumes and be part of Saldenah Carnival on the parade route can kick the tires beginning this night in Scarborough.
Half Two is that this night (Thursday) with the opening of their Mas Camp! The doorways will open at 6 pm on the Saldenah Mas Camp the place revelers can see the costumes up shut, and put of their orders for the August Grand Parade. The mas camp is positioned in the identical constructing as in 2023, at 280 Customers Highway.
