If there will be no competitive Dimanche Gras calypso performances should the lucrative first-prize money (paid for by taxpayers rather than crowd attendance or pay-per-view electronic media ...

from Trinidad. Leaders from 53 masquerade bands saddled with intricate and heavy costumes - some as wide as a large tree canopy and as high as 30 feet - gathered for Dimanche Gras, or Carnival ...

The catch-phrase for Sunday's night's re-branded Dimanche Gras was "The Evolution Begins". But what audiences got was a devolution of Carnival's signature stage show; and the excuse proffered by ...

The Trinidad Carnival - an annual festival of ... when the island's best steel bands play all day. Sunday is for Dimanche Gras (Fat Sunday), a mind-boggling series of performances by world-famous ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Move over Mardi ... complete without the Panorama steel pan band competition; Dimanche Gras (Big Sunday), where masquerade designers showcase intricately ...

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad – Dripping in sequins and sweat ... moves for the crowning of the Carnival King and Queen on Dimanche Gras, or Carnival Sunday. Also being judged Sunday was the calypso ...

carnival races to its peak in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago in another year when the two festivals overlap. Today is Carnival Sunday and the grand traditional Dimanche Gras (‘fat Sunday ...

(Trinidad Express) Helon Francis is once again ... night at a fiercely contested calypso monarch competition at the Dimanche Gras show on Sunday night at the Queen’s Park Savannah in Port ...

(Photo courtesy Republic Bank Exodus Facebook page). The events of last Saturday night, ahead of Dimanche Gras in Trinidad & Tobago, will go down in the annals of pan history for more than one reason.