Daly Bread: Another letter for Thelma and another 2021 loss
For some, it is belatedly and painfully sinking in that there will be no Carnival 2021. But what art forms have we lost?
In answering this question I can look through a long lens, having been six years old when my mother first ‘disguised’ me. I have no specific memory of playing a little sailor but I do have a photograph. Another time I will explain why playing mas was referred to as ‘disguising’.
Photo: A masquerader at the Notting Hill Carnival.
(Copyright Independent.co.uk)
Memories of Carnival, which I have retained from my childhood, go back to 1955 the only year in which a foreign tune,