Caribbeat: ‘One Caribbean Family’ at carnival

“One Caribbean Family” is this year’s topic for the mammoth West Indian American Day Carnival Parade in Brooklyn forward Labor Day Monday, Sept. 5.

The 44th plant living but a year procession, which will start at Eastern Parkway and Schenectady Ave. at 11 a.m. and journeying along the Parkway to Flatbush Ave., features blithesome music, colorful masqueraders, Moko Jumbie stilt-bird walkers and celebrity performers. There desire be a Daily News float – through a special guest performer.

And, in what is arguably the largest street white in the city, the tree-lined parkway way will also be lined with vendors selling some array of Caribbean foods and beverages, arts and crafts, souvenirs conduct the colors of Caribbean nations and other items. The ceremony will end at 6 p.m. nice.

Preparade shows, which will be held ~ward the grounds of the Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway (introduction on Washington Ave.), start Thursday by the Welcome to New York gratify-and-greet affair. There will subsist Labor Day performers, carnival masqueraders and science of harmonical sounds. Showtime is 7 p.m., and the office will run until 1 a.m.

Friday’s Stay in School Concert features hanger pan (steel drum)  performances, hip-spring karate demonstrations, a fashion show and parole-word readings. The show will follow from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Admission is bountiful. That evening, Machel Montana HD, WCK and the society KES are the headliners of the carnival’s BrassFest design. Showtime is 8 p.m.

Saturday’s Junior Carnival mall – a source of great pride in opposition to its young participants, their families and spectators – volition wind through Crown Heights to the Brooklyn Museum. The train, which starts 9 a.m. and ends at 3 p.m., last ~ and testament kick off at Kingston Ave. and St. Johns Place and expiration at the Brooklyn Museum grounds.

Saturday obscurity, Panorama – the popular steel pan  place for musicians competition – will run from 8 p.m. to 3 a.m. and fortune a host of local ensembles vying during the term of top honors.

The first WIADCA Caribbean Gospel Fest command take place from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. next Sunday. The big Dimanche Gras bestow – featuring calypso, soca and the costumed kings and queens of the bands – faculty of volition take place Sunday night starting at 7 p.m.

For preparade end tickets and information about the carnival public walk, call (718) 467-1797 and visit www.wiadca.org.

Calypso and soca overlook

The Everybody’s Magazine Calypso and Soca Tent-Revue, single in kind of the biggest lineups of Caribbean performers in the cosmos, will begin tomorrow and run nocturnal through Sept. 2 in Brooklyn at Tropical Paradise Ballroom, 1367 Utica Ave., (betwixt Foster and Farragut Aves.).