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CARIBBEAN CARNIVAL MAS BAND MEDIA ALERT
July 1: Last costume launch of the season - the honors belong to Michael Williams' New Regulars and a Nigerian King
For Immediate Release
June 27, 2019 TORONTO: Michael Williams has been fielding competitive mas bands for Caribana since the early seventies. This year his regulars will instead be a non-competitive band and they are skimpy skimpy costumes that most bands are promoting this year.
"We are putting dignity into our designs" he said. "We are a Big People mas band and are making costumes that people of all sizes will be comfortable to go down the road in."
The New D'Regulars will stage the final costume launch of the Carnival season on July 1st. It is an all-day family friendly event with a classic Caribbean seafood breakfast and live Soca music. The doors open at 10 am with the all-day breakfast being served shortly thereafter. The costume show will preview all the outfits that the Mas Band will be wearing at the August 3rd Carnival Parade. This Mas Fashion show starts at 8pm and will run to 10 pm. The fete will take place in Scarborough's Spade Night Club ( 3500 McNicoll near Markham).
"We are putting dignity into our designs" he said. "We are a Big People mas band and are making costumes that people of all sizes will be comfortable to go down the road in."
The theme for the band launch "Straight Out of Africa, as a tribute to Ooni King Adeyeeye Babatunde Ogunwusi of Nigeria, who will be in Toronto to cut the ribbon with me at the start of the big parade!" Says Mr. Williams.
"We will also have live music with Moses Revolution," he continued. And when the Soca band is not performing The Soca Controllers DJs will take over. "
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