Trinidad & Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Rain may have delayed the start of the 14th Annual Emancipation Street Parade on the Eastern Main Road, Laventille on Sunday but it didn’t dampen the spirit of performers or spectators.
The 4 pm start was pushed back by 45 minutes, at which time, the national anthem was played on a steel pan, followed by a libation to our African ancestors and a brief but proud welcome to the modest crowd by Chairman of the Laventille Steelband Festival Foundation (LSFF), Michael Cooper.
He said “overcast conditions and rainy spells were no match for the spirit and determination” of the folk performers, tamboo bamboo group, rhythm sections and dozens of steelbands which had helped to make the parade the biggest steelband event after Panorama.
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