Ruth and George Parsons have certainly had their adventures playing in Panorama.
This latest installment is the first of a two part story. Hope you enjoy. We certainly did.
March 5, 2009
Hey, we survived another carnival in Trinidad and it was crazy and unpredictable and exhausting as usual!
Arrived in Trinidad about midnight New Year’s night. A friend picked us up from the airport whose old car doesn’t have a gas gage so he wasn’t sure how much gas he had. But all the stations were closed so it didn’t matter. Welcome to Trinidad. At least he had cleaned his car out so that our luggage fit. There were fire works on both sides of the highway celebrating the new year and he pretended it was a show set up for us and went down the highway, saying, “They’re here”. Stayed at a bed and breakfast, arriving after 1:00 AM and Tammy, the owner, had left a key on the patio. We let ourselves in and went to bed. Welcome to Trinidad.
Cleaned and painted the boat, got it in the water, stocked it with food at Pricemart, and rested a few days waiting for our band, Harvard Harps, to begin practice.
Finally we began. New leadership and different players. Last year the band wound up in a big fight after Carnival and the leader quit. A committee took over the leadership and this past December another fight ensued and one of the committee members quit and several others sided with him and quit also. But there were others came back to the band because those two were gone! So we lost some and gained some. We lost our drummer so no drummer for practice, which made the practices very difficult. But we began the 3rd week of January and learned two songs for “the road” or songs we play as the trailer goes down the street on Jourvert morning and on Monday and Tuesday nights for pan competitions. (More of the story)
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