Brian MacFarlane's 'India' Stands Out
TriniSoca.com Reporters

For two whole days in Trinidad and Tobago, Carnival celebrations in all its different manifestations held center stage as Soca music, giant colourful costumes, Steelpan, rhythm sections, old mas characters and thousands and thousands of spectators and participants took over Port of Spain and the other Carnival cities. Many who could not go directly and experience it stayed and watched it live on television. This festival is rooted in the particular history of the Caribbean region and with all its revelry, freeness and color deeply tied to African-Caribbean resistance to European colonialism and this is explored by Corey Gilkes in his article: 'Trinidad Carnival: Afri-Caribbean Resistance'
(www.trinisoca.com/features/230203.html).

During this year's Carnival 2007 celebrations, Machel Montano's infectious hit song 'Jumbie' ruled the streets of Port of Spain and at the judging points it was played over and over, making it overwhelmingly the winner of the 2007 Road March race by the widest ever margin according to TUCO. Colourfully-clad masqueraders enthusiastically jumped and wined throughout the streets, doing the 'jumbie dance'. The 2007 Carnival celebrations had to do without the customary crossing of the big stage in the Queen's Park Savannah, but this did not affect the enjoyment of the revelers.