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Monday, March 17, 2025

TUCO to host virtual events, hints at Calypso Monarch

by

Peter Christopher
1536 days ago
20210101
Lutalo Masimba (Brother Resistance).

Lutalo Masimba (Brother Resistance).

SHIRLEY BAHADUR

The Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion may not be go­ing vir­tu­al but the Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so Or­gan­i­sa­tion is plan­ning a vir­tu­al fu­ture, in­clud­ing if pos­si­ble a Ca­lyp­so Monarch com­pe­ti­tion.

In a phone in­ter­view yes­ter­day, TU­CO pres­i­dent Lu­ta­lo Masim­ba al­so known as Broth­er Re­sis­tance stressed his or­gan­i­sa­tion was a Car­ni­val or­gan­i­sa­tion and as such their pri­or­i­ty was to push the mu­sic for­ward.

“Peo­ple want to hear mu­sic, they want to feel mu­sic, they want to be with mu­sic, and there­fore I am cer­tain and we can al­ready see over the past month or so is that the artistes have been pro­duc­ing mu­sic. Our mis­sion as an or­gan­i­sa­tion is to find ways to or­gan­ise plat­forms for the per­for­mance of this mu­sic and to present this mu­sic to the world and we are pre­pared to do so,” said Re­sis­tance.

He added, “So whether the NCC have or don’t have or don’t want to have, that cool, that is their busi­ness. But it had Car­ni­val be­fore it had the NCC any­way so that is not we prob­lem So I am say­ing for mu­sic we are go­ing to con­tin­ue to make the mu­sic and con­tin­ue to present the mu­sic to the world.”

Re­sis­tance said the TU­CO ex­ec­u­tive was still ex­plor­ing var­i­ous meth­ods and so­cial me­dia plat­forms con­cern­ing the best way for­ward.

While he con­firmed that the door was not closed on even host­ing a Ca­lyp­so Monarch, he, how­ev­er, ad­mit­ted that prizes would be an is­sue.

‘We have the ca­pac­i­ty to do the ca­lyp­so monarch and what­ev­er oth­er com­pe­ti­tion but the chal­lenges would be the prizes, that would be the chal­lenge. So we would have to de­cide in terms of what we do if we get pro­grammes go­ing do we find ways to take care of the greater ma­jor­i­ty of the mem­bers or do we em­brace the com­pe­ti­tion which will just en­sure that a few mem­bers are tak­en care of. It’s a sort of moral kind of de­ci­sion that we would have to make,” he said.

Re­sis­tance, how­ev­er, point­ed out that 2021 ac­tu­al­ly rep­re­sent­ed 100 years of the Ca­lyp­so tent, at least in its cur­rent form.

Crit­i­cism of the NCC’s an­nounce­ment on Wednes­day con­tin­ued to mount with sev­er­al point­ing to oth­er vir­tu­al Car­ni­val events held across the Caribbean as well as dur­ing Not­ting Hill Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions in the Unit­ed King­dom.

Guardian Me­dia was un­able to con­tact NCC Chair­man Win­ston ‘Gyp­sy’ Pe­ters on the mat­ter yes­ter­day.


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