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The 2007 Brooklyn Carnival is the 40th and the first without
founder Carlos Lezama who passed away earlier this year after serving
the community for 34 years. We've been hard at work on a
new
NYC Parade Guide as well as some new pages you can best
find here The
keynote parade on Labor Day Monday will be feature Michael
R. Bloomberg, the 108th Mayor of the City of New Meanwhile the Sunday Street Festival in Manhattan's Little Brazil carries on for those who prefer their Carnivals a bit more multicultural than the many Caribbean islands whose total population not much more than the state of New York. This is, after all the Capital of the Caribbean biggest annual unity event and possibly even the big apple's largest celebration. |
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CarnivalPower.com/ The On-Line Carnival Experience...Feel the Power ! Yours in Mas, Music and Madness. NY Labor Day Carnival from Vincy Mas perspective www.timeoutny.com || what's new in Brooklyn -google search West
Indian Day Carnival
by Jim's Deli
Brooklyn Carnival 2005 in review
Carlos
Lezama Resigns by CanarsieCourier.com Carnival on De Net 2003 is 3canal! ImmigrantJournal.com
Index
of Newspaper Articles from 1999 Brooklyn Carnival
from Welcome
to Guyana Land of Six Peoples including NY Times Media
Guide Radio & TV Coverage in aforum
New York union labor leadership gets credit for
creating the well established Labor Day which now also marks the end
of summer for most. Today beginning contingents of the Brooklyn Carnival
parade uphold the deep NYC traditions as well as the first proposal for
the holiday -- "a street parade to exhibit to the public "the
strength and esprit de corps of the trade and labor organizations" of
the community, followed by a festival for the recreation and amusement of
the workers and their families."
Official
New York/Brooklyn
Carnival WIADCA '2007 Events
Caribbean
American Family Day Festival
Parade route
Parade
Tips by Carnival
Bandleaders Action Committee Subway
The Grand Army Plaza stop is at the end of the parade where NYPD has at times made parades and crowds disperse better options are the Franklin or Utica Avenue stops |
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Boston |
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| Cambridge Carnival Caribbean/Mardi Gras style costume parade that celebrates the culture of countries including Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago, Honduras, Haiti, Puerto Rico and Barbados. Among the highlights of summer Carnibal as celebrated in Cambridge are: the Steel Band Jamboree and a costume parade
WHEN:The parade & festival will takes
place on the Sunday following Boston Carnival or the Sunday before Brooklyn
Carnival Sunday |
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BaltimoreCarnival.com
Baltimore Carnival, the after Labor Day East Coast
Carnival has been canceled for 2007 licarnival.com/ is no more. The parade, last done in 2004 was very successful but parades need to be accompanied by a business plan to pay for them with a festival and community support for police, parking and garbage service. You can visit the site or this famous poster. |
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June: DCcaribbeanCarnival.com Washington DC one of the best official site of any Caribbean Carnival with as many parade bands on the web as any Caribibbean Carnival July .bcacarnival.com Baltimore Carnival
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2000 - 2001 Carnival Coverage
between Broadway
and Park Avenue where you can
still find Brazilian
food, music, and Brazilian products. In 1984 the City of New York
proclaimed the first Sunday in September as the day in which it
celebrates Brazilian
Independence from Portugal. The event has been managed for the
past several years by The Brazilian American Cultural Center and
THE BRASILIANS NEWSPAPER as one of the many endeavors they
maintain to serve the Brazilian community and promote Brazil
internationally.
J'Ouvert (pronounced
Joo-VAY and often spelt as Jouvert ) means
daybreak and is a grass-roots revival of an old Trinidadian
custom. Since its inception in 1991, New York
has become the world's 2nd best
J'Ouvert. Like Port of Spain in Trinidad the loose parade format features
steel bands and mud mas. Join revellers very early Monday Labor Day
morning about 3am and ending about 9am. The Steel bands prepare music just
for this parade and compete for Best Playing Band on the Road and also for
Best Costumed Band. Celebrating its 7th year in New York. Making the 24
hours beginning with Sunday 8pm Dimache Gras among the most unwavering
anywhere in the Carnival world.
to
Grand Army Plaza or Franklin Avenue 
to Grand Army Plaza or Franklin Avenue or Utica Avenue 
to Franklin Avenue or Utica Avenue 
to Franklin Avenue | There is no service to the Eastern
Parkway-Brooklyn Museum stop during this event. 
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2006 Mas Bands, Individual & Panorama Awards
Great Performances
Tonik
Band has been leading the
charts with tasty tunes at .
Here's some fun interactivity starring two dancing soca queens and their
tunes with you controlling Mr. Cool. Works best if you add the Tonik band
clips in our sound bar as well, Click 
Sean
P. Diddy Combs
