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The band was founded in 1983 by Andy Watts and Giles Lewin, together with Bill Badley, after Watts had been the musical director of an open-air Medieval Players production of Rabelais' Gargantua. The show featured actors, giant carnival characters, puppets, acrobatics, juggling and 16th-century music.
The Carnival was an American pop group formed by percussionist José Soares and vocalist Janis Hansen, both formerly of Sergio Mendes' Brasil '66. Initially a joint venture between Walter Wanderley and the original members of Brasil '66, the group eventually settled into a quartet augmented by Terry Fischer of the Murmaids and bassist Tommy Neal.
A wide variety of costumes (called "mas") depicting traditional Trinidadian Carnival characters are seen throughout the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival. After emancipation in 1838, freed slaves combined African masking culture with French colonial influence [ 1 ] to create characters that parodied the upper-class customs and costumes of Carnival.
A few specific characters have evolved during the history of Trinidad and Tobago's Carnival. [7] Among these characters are: Burrokeet – A donkey-riding character, from burroquito (Spanish for 'little donkey'). [48] The costume is constructed so as to give the illusion of a dancer riding a small burro or donkey.
The Carnival Band evolved out of The Medieval Players. The combination of Giles Lewin, Andy Watts, Bill Badley and Jub dates from 1985. They have recorded as a backing band for Maddy Prior. Lewin joined up with Vivien Ellis, another member of the Dufay Collective and the Carnival Band to become the duo Alva in 1997, specialising in the music of ...
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Sing Lustily And With Good Courage is an album by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band. It was recorded at Valley Recordings in March 1990 and released as a CD on the Saydisc label. This is a collection of "Gallery Songs" from the 18th and early 19th centuries. Gallery songs were popular hymns which were purged from hymnals in the late nineteenth ...
In March 2008, the band participated in the first annual Honk Fest West in Seattle, Washington, a three-day convocation of alternative street bands from around the U.S., which included performances in the Ballard and Georgetown neighborhoods. The band returned to Honk Fest West in Seattle in 2009 and 2010, and to the original Honk!