Sunday, January 21, 2007
Marching to different beats around the world
The Telegraph.co.uk has an article on "Where to party this carnival season" and include Santa Cruz in Tenerife as the first of their "Six sizzlers". They say, "Tenerife in the Canaries holds what is widely believed to be Spain's biggest carnival parade. As elsewhere, the dominating spectacle comprises floats, samba schools and other musical dances and fancy dress parades, particularly on Shrove Tuesday."
Of course, if this year's Gala director, Rafael Amargo, gets his way, those "other musical" themes will also include more music in English. Now, I don't know about you, but even though I am English and, primarily, listen to English music at home, when I watch carnaval, I expect carnaval music; latin music, samba, salsa, something exotic ... That, seems to be, to me, the whole point. It's carnaval!
Does it really need "watering down" for acceptance by an American TV audience?
But it's great that Tenerife gets listed first and, not that you would want to go anywhere else, but the article also tells you about other carnaval party fun.
Marching to different beats around the world
Labels: Carnaval
