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As for actually participating or “playing mas”, you can book a costume in any one of a number of bands. There are the pared-down bands like Burrokeets where looking pretty is not the objective – having fun is; the “party” bands like Young Harts, Poison, Barbarossa and Legends, which attract both the fun-lovers and the hard bodies; the “play yuh mas” bands that focus on the art of costume-making, such as Kallicharan’s and Wayne Berekley, and bands like Minshall and his Calalloo Company, where both the fun and the theatrical elements of Carnival combine to make your experience one-of-a-kind – truly the greatest show on earth!

This was taken off www.visittnt.com...I think they need to update it since few of those bands are no longer in existence or have adapted themselves

Also, check out these interesting statistics:

Here are a few highlights from that study:
40,455 visitors came for Carnival 2004, the second highest number of visitors since 1997, with the highest number arriving in 2000.

Visitor arrivals for the Carnival period 1997 – 2004 are as follows:

1997 - 27,414
1998 - 35,665
1999 - 34,907
2000 - 42,646
2001 - 35,221
2002 - 33,487
2003 - 38,537
2004 - 40,455
Carnival arrivals account for 10% of all visitor arrivals

Visitors came mainly from the USA and CARICOM Region
Top 5 States of US Carnival Arrivals for 2004:
1. New York - 9,769
2. Florida - 3,357
3. New Jersey - 1,250
4. Maryland - 916
5. Texas - 843

Carnival Arrivals by country of origin:
USA - 46%
CARICOM - 19%
UK - 14%
Rest of the World - 10%
Canada - 9%
Germany - 2%
Barbados provided the largest number of visitors from the Caribbean region.
Professionals (e.g. doctors, lawyers, teachers) dominated the group.

I wonder how they came up with the statistics on where people are travelling from. Cause it seem like they only looking at the states with direct flights to TNt, but what about the people that connected?

I think they get the stats from the immigration form that is filled out on the plane and given to customs/immigration (lawd I cah remember )

LMAO

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