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The Year People Needed Carnival the Most, It Was Canceled Loyal enthusiasts on what they missed in a year they needed Carnival the most. Booming music. Glittering costumes. And perhaps even more important: the feeling of being free. After a year of racial reckonings, the celebration of Carnival which provides a much-needed release for many revelers from London to New York to Toronto and beyond was canceled. “The loss of Carnival goes beyond costumes, music, liming [socializing] and physical contact,” said Ingrid Persaud, a Trinidad and Tobago-born writer who lives in Britain. Would-be Carnival attendees said they missed the exuberance, the roti and pepper pot, singing along with others on the road and the very act of gathering. ....
Farmer Nappy wins The Monarch soca crown in no-audience final Sunday 14 February 2021 Darryl Farmer Nappy Henry sings Backyard Jam to win the 2021 International Soca Monarch competition, rebranded The Monarch, at the National Academy for the Performing Arts, Port of Spain in a pre-recorded final that aired on TV6 on Friday night. - Darryl “Farmer Nappy” Henry has won the 2021 International Soca Monarch (ISM), rebranded The Monarch, with his popular pandemic hit Backyard Jam. What was considered an unusual competition setting for this type of event, Farmer Nappy along with ten other competitors performed without an audience at the National Academy for the Performing Arts, Port of Spain, in a pre-recorded final that aired on TV6 on Friday night. ....
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 Carniva ....