Location:299 Queen West, Toronto, Ontario| Sponsor: |  CTV |
(Toronto) – In partnership with the Toronto Public Library Foundation, STCC presents an evening to celebrate the Culture of Carnival, recognize 5 key contributors and to raise funds for the Dr. Rita Cox Endowment Fund. The Rita Cox Endowment Fund for Black and Caribbean Heritage supports The Rita Cox Black and Caribbean Heritage Collection at the Toronto Public Library. The Collection features more than 16,000 print and audiovisual materials for adults, children and teens about the black and Caribbean experience with special emphasis on Canadian material. The collection is available at convenient library locations across the city: Parkdale, Yorkwoods, Malvern and Maria A. Shchuka branches.
This year 4 STCC Tribute Awards will be presented to Glenda Bostic for her dedication and commitment to furthering calypso through the Organization of Calypso Performing Artistes, John Kam – a veteran involved in production of the festival for over 25 years, Pat “Panman” McNeilly – a dynamic contributor to both calypso and steelband in Canada and the late Elton “Smokey” John who will remembered by all from inception of the festival in 1967 to the formation of the Toronto Symphony Steel Orchestra and the making of pans in Toronto. The Kathy Searles Volunteer award will be presented to Frances Lochan, Event Manager of the King & Queen event which takes at Lamport Stadium each year.
Host for this year’s gala dinner program is Itah Sadu – owner of A Different Booklist. Itah is an author and storyteller who shares the rich oral traditions of the Caribbean, Africa and Canada with her audiences and is well known to Toronto Public Library and the Dr. Rita Cox Endowment Fund. Entertainment include the reigning Calypso Monarch “Macomere FiFi”, D Juiceman, Hummingbird Tassa Group, Pan Fantasy Steel band. The jum-up starts at 9:30 pm featuring DJ Desmond Peters from Wack Radio in T&T and a live band “The Vibes”.
On Friday, July 22nd, the Liberty Grand Complex (Toronto’s CNE grounds) will be transformed into an island of sensational colour, rhythmic vibrations and exotic extravagance. It will be dinner for over 500 guests featuring the melodious sounds and culinary splendor of the Carnival through music, costumes, magnificent dinner program and fundraising activities such as silent auction, swag bags and CRA approved donations box.
Tickets are now available and can be purchased at the Festival Management Committee’s downtown offices 263 Davenport Avenue. Lower Level) or on-line at http://www.
About Scotiabank Toronto Caribbean Carnival
Produced by the Festival Management Committee, Scotiabank Toronto Caribbean Carnival Festival is an exciting three-week cultural explosion of Caribbean music, cuisine, revelry as well as visual and performing arts. A major international event and the largest cultural festival of its kind in North America – Scotiabank Toronto Caribbean Carnival is an international cultural phenomenon, the great metropolis of Toronto and its environs will come alive as the city explodes with the pulsating rhythms and melodies of Calypso, Soca, Reggae, Chutney, Steel Pan and Brass Bands.
Corporate sponsors of this year's festival include: Scotiabank, The Toronto Star, CTV, CP24, Flow 93.5, Eye Weekly, The Federal Government of Canada, The Province of Ontario, The City of Toronto, Tourism Toronto, The Greater Toronto Airports Authority, Ontario Place, Royal Ontario Museum, Ontario Science Centre, Toronto Public Libraries, Yorkgate Mall, Liberty Grand Entertainment Complex & Liberty Entertainment Group, The Caribbean Camera Newspaper, Toronto-Lime.Com, and Grace Kennedy (Ontario) Inc.
MEDIA: You are welcome to cover BUT you are not guaranteed a meal. PLEASE confirm with Stephen Weir. 416-489-5868 . Ontario Minister Best and Federal Minister Kent will be speaking at the Gala.
For Further Information, contact
Stephen Weir
Stephen Weir & Associates
The Scotiabank Caribbean Carnival Toronto is well underway and GO Transit will be offering you special advanced all-day GO passes and extra train service to get you to and from some of the festivals signature events.For your convenience, starting, today, we will be selling advanced all-day GO passes at all Lakeshore line GO stations, including Union Station. These passes will be good for travelling on the Lakeshore lines on July 30th and 31st only.For revellers travelling to the parade on Saturday, July 30th, in addition to our regular hourly Lakeshore line train services, Lakeshore East passengers will have an extra train departing Oshawa at 11:11, arriving Exhibition GO at 12:16; and Lakeshore West riders will have an extra eastbound train to Union leaving Aldershot at 11:34 and arriving Exhibition GO at 12:30. We will also operate an additional train service to bring you back home after the parade; departing Exhibition westbound to Aldershot at 18:19 and eastbound to Oshawa at 18:33.Those attending the Caribana Lime Festival on Sunday, will have regular hourly train services to and from the event with an extra train trip afterwards travelling eastbound from the Exhibition GO to Oshawa at 20:33, and a westbound service at 20:16 that will make all stops to Aldershot and then continue on to St. Catharines and Niagara Falls.Please visit the Toronto Caribbean Festival section of gotransit.com or click the following link for more details on your festival and holiday service: http://www.gotransit.com/public/en/travelling/caribbean.aspx
BAND #1: Silhouettes
Song: Calling Meh (Ken “Professor” Philmore, Mark Loquan, Destra)
Arranger: Mark Mosca
BAND #2: Pan Masters
Song: Showtime (Edwin Pouchet, Alvin Daniel, Anslem Douglas)
Arranger: Tommy Crichlow
BAND #3: Metrotones
Song: Calling Meh (Ken “Professor” Philmore, Mark Loquan, Destra)
Arranger: Carl James
BAND #4: Panatics Steelband Network
Song: Calling Meh (Ken “Professor” Philmore, Mark Loquan, Destra)
Arranger: Ian H. Jones
BAND #5: St Jamestown Youth Centre
Song: Showdown (Amrith Samaroo, Edwin Ayong)
Arranger: Dwight Belgrove
Band #6: New Dimension
Song: Showdown (Amrith Samaroo, Edwin Ayong)
Arranger: Andre Rouse
BAND #7: CCAH
Song: Do Something for Pan (Len “Boogsie” Sharpe)
Arranger: Albert John
BAND #8: Hamilton Youth Steel Orchestra
Song: Calling Meh (Ken “Professor” Philmore, Mark Loquan, Destra)
Arranger: Terrence Sealey
BAND #9: Symphonyx
Song: Calling Meh (Ken “Professor” Philmore, Mark Loquan, Destra)
Arranger: Delano Thomas
BAND #10: Salah Steelpan Academy
Song: How We Coming (Brian “Bean” Griffith)
Arranger: Salah Wilson
BAND #11: Afropan
Song: A Raging Storm (Winston Scarborough "De Original Defosto Himself")
Arranger: Earl La Pierre Sr
BAND #12: Golden Harps International
Song: Calling Meh (Ken “Professor” Philmore, Mark Loquan, Destra)
Arranger: Duvone Stewart
BAND #13: JK Pan Vibrations
Song: Max it Up (Destra and Kernal Roberts)
Arranger: Edan Scime-Stockell and Jason Farrell
BAND #14: Pan Fantasy
Song: Showtime (Edwin Pouchet, Alvin Daniel, Anslem Douglas)
Arranger: Al Foster
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