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What a year this has been.
When we ate our black-eyed peas and rice and popped our champagne on Old Year’s Night 2019, we had no idea 2020 was going to be the year it turned out to be especially on the entertainment front.
Luckily, we got to experience Carnival which, it turns out, was the last for the foreseeable future. COVID-19 ensured the complete shutdown of the entertainment sector as our Government sought to manage the number of infections locally.
Virtual became the new frontier for entertainment and as we head into 2021 it looks like it will certainly remain a part of the landscape even when life resumes some level of normalcy.
WESTERN BUREAU:
Lip-syncing has found its way into the Sandals Resorts International’s (SRI) Hall of Fame as the chain’s general managers took a virtual battle to unprecedented levels.
“Though lip-syncing was the name of the game, the teams left no stone unturned, fully embodying their chosen artistes and songs, and going the distance to bring their selections to life in carefully curated ‘music videos’,” said the resort group in a press release.
On Monday morning, Facebook was ‘lit’ by a riveting performance by Winston Anderson, from Sandals Grande St Lucia. His lyrical rendition of Sean Paul’s
Like Glue went viral, leaving viewers convinced that the video was official marketing collateral from the company.
The music must go on
Darryl Farmer Nappy -
TT Carnival 2021 joins a long line of carnivals that have been physically cancelled or postponed because of the covid19 pandemic.
Despite this, there has been a slow and steady stream of new music being released, as many artistes believe the music must go on.
Darryl “Farmer Nappy” Henry is one of many who has new releases for 2021. His Backyard Jam is in heavy rotation on the radio and he also recently released 1Fam with Machel Montano and Don Iko.
For him, music is a part of his happiness and is his livelihood. But, while this is so, he has also made other investments to “fall back on.”
Itâs December 27 and that means two things: many stomachs are recovering from overindulgence during the past two days and soca fans everywhere are jumping on social media platforms to check out new releases.
Traditionally T&Tâs Carnival started yesterday, Boxing Day. At least the mass local and international interest in the new sounds of the upcoming festival season. And while, sadly, the ongoing global pandemic has added Carnival Monday and Tuesday (February 15 and 16) to its daily growing list of victims, the innate need to fete remains alive in every beating Carnival loverâs heart.
Thankfully and perhaps mercifully their âsoca warriorsâ have not abandoned them in their greatest hour of need. New soca releases have been aplenty in recent months, fuelling a series of virtual online eventsâand not so legal Covid-19-regulaitons-breaching âzesserâ and âwesserâ fetes leading up to T&Tâs highly anticipated virtual Carnival 2021 sh