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NOTTING HILL
CARNIVALThe largest Street Festival in Europe
It Take place at every August Bank Holiday weekend in the streets of west London
It always took place at Notting Hill Gate since 1964.
It is an enormous multicultural festival, but specially Caribbean
Originated as a way for west Indian Community to celebrate their own culture and traditions
Londoners of all ethnic backgrounds come together during N. Hill Carnival parade ...
On Saturday the festival begin to live with the Top steel pan players competition in Hyde Park
Sunday is for Children
a Family day
On Bank holiday MondayThe main parade take place, this day is for adults.
Streets are full of colourful costumes with mass players dance behind their decorated float in the parade.
Hearing steel drum bands and music from static sound systems.
People dancing in the streets all is fun, sound, rhythm and colour
Vibrant Steel pan Bands on floats playing calypso or socaThere are also reggate, hip hop, samba, salsa....
Pans are musical instrument from Trinidad and Tobago made with 55 gallons drums of oil.
After all that dancing
If you are hungry, you can
find people selling meat
and vegetable patties,
salted fish, and other
delicious Caribbean
specialities in the streets.
Stalls line the streets selling delicious Caribbean specialities
BARBEQUE CORN
Jamaican jerk chicken
Carnival History
The Caribbean people had his first carnival in 1833 in Trinidad to celebrate that slavery was abolished.
After World War II and during the 1950s people from Caribbean came to Great Britain to work. They took his traditions
Origin of Notting Hill Carnival
In 1958 there was violence between white people and black people in the Notting Hill area in west of London.
The Carnival began in January 1959 in St Pancras Town Hall as a response to the depressing state of race relations at the time.
The Carnival took place in different parts of west London but since 1964 it took place always in Notting Hill Gate.
Influences and problems Since 1973 the carnival had a big
influence by Trinidadian Carnival. During some years there was a lot of
riots and this event would be banned.
Prince Charles was one of the few who supported the event.
In recent years, the event has been much freer from serious trouble
Five key components
Calypso (ABC) political commentary set to music originating from Trinidad
Soca (CMA): a fusion of soul music and calypso
Static Sound Systems (BASS): originally from Jamaica and most often playing reggae music
Masquerade (NHMBA): mass bands, or costumed processions and floats
Steelpan (BAS): a traditional Trinidadian Instrument.