Mardi Gras party: a swinging affair
published: Tuesday | March 11, 2003
Above: Soca fans were enjoying the swing at last Friday's 'Mardi Gras'. - Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer
THE BACCHANAL Group's 'Friday Night Lyme' has been getting into high gear since its launch three weeks ago. Last Friday's Mas Camp fete, dubbed 'Mardi Gras' and sponsored by Appleton, started out slowly but gathered momentum around midnight and turned out to be a swinging affair.
At midnight, masks and beads were distributed to all who wanted them. Bobby Wong's Sparkles Disco kept the soca fans jumping with a mixture of old soca songs and some of the latest. However, the revellers were a little slow in getting familiar with the new soca songs but with the return of 'The Trini Posse' from Trinidad Carnival, who are now familiar with the songs and the dance moves, things should be different. Two of the new songs to which people responded favourably were David Rudder and Carl Jacobs' Trini To The Bone and Crazy's controversial Rosie.
The Caribbean queens who were in the island for the 'Eye On Fashion' show, also took time out to party with the Jamaican soca fans.
