‘Colours of the Wind’ wins Downtown Band of the Year title

The 2003 offering from Masquerade/Funtasia’ “Colours of The Wind” earned Downtown Band of the Year honours. At a news conference late yesterday, Mayor of Port-of- Spain Murchison Browne announced the results of the downtown festivities. In second place was Poison with their “Fleurs de Passion” presentation.

Legends “Bedazzled” came in third, Barbarossa’s “Comme Se Comme Sa” fourth and Callaloo Company’s “Ship of Fools” in fifth position. De Midas and Associates’ “The Awakening” took the Medium band of the year crown, while the small band honour went to The Boss with “Festival of the Hopee Cochinas” the mini band crown went to Jackman and Associates with “Sioux Festival”. Browne added that, “We witnessed one of the brightest Carnival in many a year.” The Mayor offered glowing praise to the NCC in their running of the parade, and added that “before the NCBA took over, downtown was a compulsory site.”  He went on to say that all but one major band passed through downtown this year. Poison was also praised repeatedly by the Mayor who said that for a 32-section, 10,000 member band to cross the stage in 70 minutes was very commendable. The Commissioner of Police and the Chief of Defense Staff were also lauded for their efforts. He said that just as criticism is passed, praise should also be offered, and all defence personnel were commended by the mayor.