Saturday Nite Is Alright for Fighting: Pirates vs Flaming Bird


Two stories about two Toronto Mas Bands Launching On Same Night
Reveller's Treasure Island costumes - from Reveller's FB
Reveller's Treasure Map Says Launch is in North Toronto this Saturday

Early last month the Toronto Revellers announced that their 2019 costume launch will be held this Saturday night in Toronto.  The theme for the costumed fete is Treasure Island.

The Saturday night date puts the Revellers into head-to-head competition with the launch previously advertised for Fantazia.  Fantazia and their flaming phoenix logo announced a later start-time for their fashion show (12.30am) for the carnival die-hards it might be possible to catch both events.
Jamaal - picture by Stephen Weir
"Please join us Saturday April 6, as Toronto Revellers unveil our beautiful costumes for 2019 Peeks Toronto Caribbean Carnival," wrote  the band founder Jamaal Magloire.

The Revellers will be holding their launch at the York Mills Gallery on Leslie Street, in North Toronto.  Start time is 9pm and the party runs to at least 3pm.

Saturday Nite Is Alright for Fighting:  Pirates vs Flaming Bird  

With a signature online video showing a blazing Phoenix writing the word Rebirth in the sky in flames, Will and Lisa Morton are set to light up Toronto this Saturday night. The Morton’s are marking the 10th anniversary of their Fantazia Carnival Mas Camp with a hot hot costume launch that they call Rebirth.
Will Morton
Looking back and looking inward is the theme of their 2019 launch for this mid-sized band.  Fantazia is going BIG in marking their ten years of playing Mas in the summer Caribbean Carnival.

The launch is being held at the large Cinnamon Banquet Hall in Scarborough. Doors open early in the evening with the actual fashion presentation beginning at 12.30 am on Sunday.

 “ We will have up to 75 models on stage; men and women of all shapes and sizes,” Michelle Brazier the stage manager of the launch told the Caribbean Camera. “ After our launch last year we had about 450 people signed up to play mas with us at the Toronto Caribbean Carnival Grand Parade.  This year our target is getting 600 people (into costumes).”
Fantazia 2018 launch by Don Moreland

Fantazia’s Mas camp is located at 3895 McNicoll only a few doors away from the Cinnamon Banquet Hall. It will open later this month, as well; the band will have costume pick-ups available in Hamilton, Brampton and mid-town Toronto.

 “ In terms of the Caribbean, our appeal is that we are very diverse.  We are from all over, Trinidad, St. Vincent, the Bahamas, St Kitts and Nevis.  Wherever you are from, you will find friends here!”

In 2009 when Will and Lisa Morton formed Fantazia, they designed all of the costumes. This year almost half of the sections will feature their costumes, the rest of the sections are longtime members of Fantazia.
“For Will and Lisa, many of the costumes will be riffs on their best designs from the past decades,” continued Brazier.  “The other sections are looking inward and being reborn with a different  (and exciting) view on life.”


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