Roseau, Dominica – (January 25, 2018) The official Mas Domnik Street Festival will kick off with a bang at the Dame Eugenia Charles Boulevard (Bayfront) this Friday January 26, 2018.
The Street Festival will highlight Dominica’s rich masquerade traditions through vivid colorful displays.
The Street Festival replaces the usual Opening of Carnival parade, since the Carnival calendar had to be adjusted in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. This year’s Street Festival will bring together past and present traditions.
Festival and Events Manager, Val Cuffy says, “We will have a small procession which displays Dominica’s traditional and contemporary Carnival, with exciting performances by top local bands and calypsonians.”
The street festival will feature traditional and contemporary groups, calypsonians including: Karessah, Tasha P, Logurz and more.
Also performing is the legendary The Swingin Stars band and the First Serenade Band. Patrons will be entertained with additional music from Mr. Mystic and DJ Midian, sensay, Bwa Bwa and costumes with dynamic colors showcasing our vibrant Carnival culture.
This year’s traditional mas will fuel excitement and provide a glimpse of what patrons can expect this Carnival season.
The Mas Domnik Street Festival begins at 4 pm on Friday, January 26, 2018.
So i have to watch the parade in my work clothes? Whole day i doh bathe? awah oui!
This makes no sense. I dont support us having Carnival this year. Ok you insist we must, it is imperative that we must, regardless of whether we are prepared for it or not. Fine you got your way. But WHY have the opening on friday? do you know the traffic congestion and tie up there will be in town? why not have it on a saturday as usual? Like who are these people make these dumb decisions after dumb decision.
Boycott the opening people,Skerrit wants to stop the 8 time king of singing,Skerrit free up the people man,your a dictator Skerrit.
Is there not a cause? Is there not a cause. In the midst of the revelry, their are men in high position that are in secure enough to take care of themselves and their families by bringing them to another country in the event another disaster strikes while foreigners continue to build your land. The Honourable Skerrit and his wife who lacks the integrity of a woman in her position as a First Lady to the nation of Dominica are secure, are you?
The diplomats have raped your country, the Chinese and every other educated foreign entity has a foothold in your country, the United Nations with its late and meager assistance to you, will benefit in their own interests and mandate by using your government who after serving 17 years mirroring the former colonialist British format, hasn’t moved half an inch in getting the GDP to a decent level while governing a nation that would rather partake in drinking, partying and everything else other than education and thinking.
The 8 times calypso king will not be there, what is the point. One day this too shall pass.
Why Friday? Is there some event on Saturday?
And who exactly cares. I rather thought Dominica had more serious things to do…
They do! However they won’t be doing them on the bay front on Friday!
And that itself is a shame.