This year’s highly anticipated King & Queen of the Bands competition is now free to the public. King and Queen of the bands is a staple on the carnival calendar, and one of the greatest displays of creativity, revelry, and splendour for Saint Lucia Carnival. A total of eighteen (18) costumes will be on display for the nights show from Island Tribe, Xuvo Carnival, Fuzion Mas, Tribe Of Twel, Just […]
After putting on a consistent display of poise, confidence and elegance throughout the competition, Miss BOSL Wise, Xenia Douglas has been crowned Saint Lucia’s National Carnival Queen for 2022. This year’s National Carnival Queen Pageant boasted several unique elements, with changes to the format of the show. The question segment started off this year’s competition, with all of the girls asked the same question. 2022 Queen, Miss BOSL Wise also came […]
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Participating Steel Band Orchestras in this year’s Panorama Competition announced that they are excited and ready for this year’s competition, set to take place this Sunday, July 10 at the SAAB in Vigie. A total of five bands will compete in the following order: Appearance Order Band Name 1 Caribbean Grains Laborie Steel Pan Laborie 2 Pantastic Muzik Steel Orchestra Banard Hill 3 LUCELEC Pantime Steel Orchestra Gros Islet […]
The Carnival Planning & Management Committee (CPMC) announces the order of appearance for the Parade of the Bands for Saint Lucia Carnival 2022. A total of eleven bands have registered for this year’s parade. The parade will follow its traditional route and begin at Choc, down the John Compton Highway, through the City of Castries and back to Choc. The parade order is as follows: Appearance Order Band Name 1 […]
The CPMC announces updates to its list of qualifiers for the Calypso Monarch Competition after former multiple monarch, Minelle, announced her withdrawal from competition to cater to unforeseen challenges. As a result of the withdrawal, two artistes whose points were tied, will now participate in this year’s competition. These artistes are J’Urgen and Dycer Fontellio. The updated list of artistes and songs selected to advance to the next stage of […]
After a weekend of exciting semi-final competitions, 9 artists in the Calypso, Power Soca, and Groovy Soca segments have qualified to advance to the final round of competition. The Power and Groovy Soca Monarch Semi-Finals was held on Friday, June 24 at the National Cultural Centre (NCC) Grounds and the Calypso Monarch Semi-Finals held on Sunday, June 26 at the NCC. The following artistes and songs were selected to advance […]
The eighteen (18) qualifiers for the Calypso Monarch Semi Finals have been announced by the CPMC/ CMMC following the quarter finals stage of competition which took place over the last four days, Friday June 17 to Monday June 20, 2022. The following artistes listed in alphabetical order will proceed to the Calypso Monarch Semi Finals: Artiste Tent Animator South Calypso Tent Blaize Kaiso Pros Tent De Jenerator Kaiso Pros Tent […]
20 groovy and power soca songs submissions have qualified to advance to Soca Semis, the third stage in this year’s Groovy and Power Soca Monarch Competition. Artistes were required to perform their submissions live, before a panel of judges yesterday, 12 June, at the CSA Centre Auditorium and the National Cultural Centre. Martin Weekes and Mark Sifflet, representatives from the St. Lucia Calypso Judges Association were on hand to supervise […]
Artistes Selected To Advance To Soca Quarters 2022 (Castries – Tuesday, June 7, 2022) – 30 groovy and 39 power soca song submissions have qualified to advance to Soca Quarters, the second stage in this year’s Groovy and Power Soca Monarch Competition. The submissions were reviewed by a panel of judges, during a listening audition on Sunday, 5 June, and the following artistes and songs were selected to advance to […]
