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Sun 26 & Mon 27 Aug 2007 |
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Colourful, crowded and controversial – Notting Hill Carnival’s 42-year existence has never been dull!
From its modest roots in the 1960s as a local event intended to bring some fun and togetherness to what was then a deprived and sometimes troubled area, the carnival has grown to become Europe’s largest street festival, attracting thousands of masqueraders and over a million visitors. Notting Hill blends the traditional Trinidad Carnival elements of mas, calypso/soca and steelpan with Jamaican-style static sounds and hundreds of food and craft stalls. From about midday, a dozen steelbands, about 70 mas bands and the same number of mobile soca sounds circulate slowly round the route (it can take up to 10 hours for a band to complete the 4-mile circuit).
Children’s Carnival, on Sunday, is reserved for younger masqueraders and tends to be less crowded than Adults’ Day, on Bank Holiday Monday. |
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12 - 7pm |
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08700 592 222 |
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