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| Casear's Army Trinidad - the jouvert of all jouverts |
J'ouvert is a large street party during Carnival in the eastern Caribbean region. J'ouvert is a contraction of the French jour ouvert, or dawn/day break. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J'ouvert
I said it before and I’ll say it again. I love love love
love love love love jouvert!!! I’ve
slowly been able to convince some of my non jouvert loving friends that being
DUTTY is the way to be. The thing I look
forward to the most at any carnival is jouvert.
I love jouvert so much, I do it twice during Trinidad
carnival. CAESAR'S ARMY Ambush Jouvert “the untraditional jouvert”
is truly an ambush held in the early AM carnival Saturday and located in The
Bush!!! I was having so much fun at AM Bush that I didnt realize that both Bunji and Superblue were
out there on the trucks until I watched my video later. I was too caught up in
the madness of the moment.
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| Casear's Army Trinidad carnival |
Carnival Monday we did
Dirty Dozen Jouvert and that was awesome as well. Dancing from 2am-6am in
the streets of Port of Spain covered in paint & powder and all liquored up.
Could a girl possibly ask for more??? Thinking
of trying out Red Antz Jouvert 2014, then again if it aint broke... dont fix it.
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| Dirty Dozen Jouvert Trinidad |
Jamaica jouvert
started off at Pandemonium with one
of the best concerts ever. Then the paint & powder came out and my girls
were like PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST!!! I didn’t
give a *BEEP* I dwent hard in the paint by my dayyym self.
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| Pandemonium Jamaica |
Not truly a jouvert, but worthy of an honorable mention is Cooler Fete in Atlanta. I’m going to
quote my Atlanta Carnival blog, “Carnival
kicks off the weekend before Memorial weekend with the Kiddie Carnival and then
Cooler fete. All I can say about cooler fete is it was PURE Madness. There were
so many casualties and so many “in ah mess” moments. Most of us did something
regrettable that night that we shall never again speak of. I’m too embarrassed
to even list any examples of what MIGHT have went down. “ Like I said, Cooler
Fete isn’t a jouvert, but that didn’t stop us all from bringing power and turning
it into the biggest Power Fete ever. It
was beyond fun and I was so glad that I would be able to do it again the following
weekend at Atlanta carnival jouvert.
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| Atlanta Cooler Fete |
Atlanta Carnival
Jouvert The rest of the ATL girls needed a lil convincing, but they came
around. I told em to bring a rag for
their hair, a rag for their face and lots of powder. Realizing they missed an
awesome impromptu jouvert the weekend b4 the girls obliged and had the time of
their life at Atlanta jouvert.
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| Atlanta Carnival Jouvert |
Toronto Jab Jab jouvert is kinda scary, it’s too many
people in too small of a space. The
thing I like about Toronto jouvert is the water trucks, cause I can dance in front
of those things for hours. Sadly it was too cold for all of that this
year. Glad to be skipping Toronto
carnival next year and heading down to Barbados that weekend instead. Although I hear that there are some bands in Barbados Foreday
aka Jouvert were you won’t get dirty at all, and it is kinda of on the fancy
side with their version of Trinidad’s “Monday wear” yawn yawn yawn. Bring on the paint, powder, mud,
wata… you can keep the oil and chocolate.
Caesar’s Army does an AMBUSH Barbados so I know I will have a mutha
frekkin BLAST!!!
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| Jab Jab Jouvert Toronto |
There was no carnival September, but What Had Happen Was… Caesar’s Army IN:DE:PAINT:DANCE
(Independence Day Beach J'ouvert) I really should be ashamed of myself for this,
but I’m not. Facebook showed me that my
girl Rocky RSVP’d to the Caesar’s Army jouvert and me being a Caesar’s Army
Roman, went straight to my computer to book a flight to Trinidad. It was sooooooooooo awesome. Jouvert + Beach =
My Heaven
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| Ceasar's Army Independence Day Jouvert |
Miami Carnival Jouvert was all just a blur, but when I
looked back at the pix I laughed nonstop for hours. Tears coming down my eyes
asking myself, “WHAT THE BEEP are we doing?”
Miami carnival jouvert is pretty new and still has a few kinks to work out, but
we all had a dayyyym good time and any complaints we might have had we were too
drunk and tired to remember them.
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| Miami Carnival Jouvert |
7 ½ jouverts in one year!
I would call this a pretty successful year. Next year, I predict we will be throwing our
own mini jouvert fetes in the backyard now that my peeps realize how much
freekin fun it is.
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