Leeds Caribbean Carnival Chapeltown J'ouvert in the streets SENSATION SOUND 7am 26th Aug 2024 Part 1

This video was recorded in the streets Chapeltown Leeds J'ouvert Morning of the carnival. The people of Leeds know how to celebrate and party. BIG UP to everyone and SENSATION SOUND
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Big up to the organisers & all the people that took part
St Kitts & Nevis, Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, Antigua, St Vincent & the Grenadines, Haiti, St Lucia, Bermuda, Montserrat, Dominica, Guyana, Bahamas, Grenada and also the people from the Motherland Ghana, Nigeria, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Eritrea, South Africa, The Gambia, Senegal, Ethiopia, Zambia, Malawi, Cameroon, Biafra, Kenya, Uganda, Ivory Coast, Tanzania and many more.. Respect

Leeds West Indian Carnival is the brainchild of Arthur France, MBE, who arrived here from St Kitts-Nevis in 1957. In 1966, two friends of his, Frankie Davis, from Trinidad and Tony Lewis, from Jamaica, students at the University of Leeds, organised a carnival fete at Kitson College (now Leeds City College – Technology). Ian Charles, also from Trinidad but settled in Leeds, was there too. Arthur France decided there should be a carnival parade along the streets of Leeds, as well as the indoor festival of music and costume. “People said I was crazy,” said Arthur, but through his driving force, with Ian’s support, plus help from others including Calvin Beech, Willie Robinson, Samlal Singh and Rose McAlister, Leeds West Indian Carnival was on the road for the first time in 1967. Arthur remains chair of the carnival committee, with Ian as its treasurer, to this day.

Today, Caribbean-style carnivals are much-loved festivals involving thousands of people in several English cities. Notting Hill’s carnival, in London, attracts up to two million visitors, while Leeds, the next largest, attracts over 100,000 people. It wasn’t always so. Its origins among the formally free, but still impoverished and angry Africans in the British Caribbean islands were shrouded in violence, amongst the participants, and against the colonial authorities.

Arthur France said when he tried to involve the Leeds black community in carnival in 1966, the vast majority were opposed, claiming that carnival was a degrading, low-class activity. Now that it has consistently proved its worth, it is not only the Leeds Caribbean community that eagerly looks forward to the festivities each August, with hundreds of people parading in their costumes and thousands attending the events. Thousands more people of all cultures from all over the UK, Europe, America and the Caribbean, come to Chapeltown and Harehills to watch the parade from all over Leeds and the north of England. Such is the quality of Leeds Carnival that troupes and Queens join the parade from other northern cities and from Birmingham and Luton, adding to the quality of the art and adding to the excitement

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