2014-MAR-07-0724Hrs
The Mausican heritage and legacy live on through our new Calypso Monarch -- Roderick Chucky Gordon. Note his substance in lyrics especially in the 'Marriage of Calypso and Chutney'; clarity of diction; precision and decorum in presentation; use of props ('teaching aids') and very endearingly, wittiness.
How well I remember his Dad Roland who, ever so often, would meet me and gush about his Chucky who was responding well to his coaching and mentoring in the calypso artform. Today we celebrate.... both Chucky, Roland (in memoriam)..... and our noble profession... Teaching!
Hazel, I agree that Dimanche Gras was wonderful, including the Lydian Singers..... So too was the Junior Carnival especially, the Panorama, the Calypso Monarch and mas costuming.
A special word on the Junior Panorama. The 'Pan in the Classroom' Programme is really paying off. To hear the arranger/teachers in Moruga schools talk of their chances of success in the 2014 competition and similarly, those in the schools in the North was so heart warming. Take a bow, Teddy Belgrave (in memoriam) and his band of pan patriots
Our successor generation might yet rescue the Carnival Festival from the "Red Light District', and make good on the current efforts to diversify the national economy away from oil and gas, for example, through the Creative Industries, with the Carnival as one of the main 'Growth Poles'.
Gwen
Gwendoline Peter-Williams 69
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