From dazzling costumes to exuberant parties, Trinidad's carnival is often dubbed "the ... costumes that would have been dumped or burned by masquerade bands, which use new costume designs every ...

Alex Smailes In Trinidad and Tobago, carnival rites begin two days before Ash Wednesday with Jouvay, a pre-dawn "mas," or masquerade, that has roots in celebrations of the emancipation of the ...

During Carnival season, participants masquerade to highlight the historical ... be a limping trickster parading around with a whip. In Trinidad he’s sometimes a blue devil mocked and beaten ...

In a 2012 article for the Trinidad and Tobago Review ... year after year, in his masquerade bands: The Carnival arts community was immediately thrust into mourning, with steelpan historian Kim Johnson ...