Trust the cut+clear carnival podcast’s most freewheeling and raucous show to date to be the one featuring women (it’s also the first CFR episode to feature explicit language!). In episode #5 the members of 3canal and I sit down backstage at Queen’s Hall with Cecilia Salazar, Dionne McNicol and Elisha Bartels, three key members of the 3canal Show, and discuss matters ranging from performing while pregnant to the banning of songs featuring “daggerin’” from the Jamaican airwaves. We also remember the late, great John Isaacs, the fourth member of 3canal, on the ninth anniversary of his passing.
Previews of this year’s edition of the 3canal Show begin on Thursday 12 February, 2009 at Queen’s Hall, Port of Spain, Trinidad. The full run begins on Monday 16 February.
This week’s 3canal track: “Where Do We Go From Here” from the album “Joy+Fire”
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from the time I read “explicit language” and then saw a certain portuguesa/venezolana in the picture, I just KNEW who would have contributed to such language
Excellent move in adding more of the x chromosome to the dynamic – Niceness
very interesting convo… flushing toilets and all
First of all, many many thanks to the cut & clear team for putting together this series. It was a fun and fascinating intro to contemporary carnival in T&T for those of us outside the country/region and hopefully it will serve as useful resource/reminder for future generations who take the rein of the ritual.
Speaking of those future generations, I’m glad the women got a much-deserved chance to make their voices heard, but, representing my own demographic, when are we going to hear from the youth? The second half of this podcast was all about how the youth need to be included in the conversations about the future of carnival, how the baton needs to be passed. I know time is always tight, but I’d love to hear from more young people about their thoughts regarding the current state and future of carnival.
Or maybe I should come down myself next year and do a little podcasting myself (not to mention practice my daggering … I kid, I kid … and I’ll refrain from my tome-length pseudo-intellectual analysis of daggering, freaking, perreo and the youtubization of sexuality.)