A record! 2,800 attended Toronto Mas launch Saturday night
THE BIGGEST SO FAR THIS COSTUME LAUNCH SEASON SALDENAH CARNIVAL IS ALL HEART AND SOCA! By Stephen Weir The Saldenah family pulled it off. There was too much at stake. Louis Saldenah was able to get a record number of people – 2,800 people into the Scarborough Cinnamon Banquet Hall, He had 120 fancy dressed models on and off the stage before the bar closed at 2 am and didn’t have a heart attack getting the job done! Saldenah Carnival, the largest and most winning Canadian band in the annual Toronto Caribbean Carnival Grand Parade is taking it all to heart in 2019. Note that their theme is the Heart Beat: the Thrill of Life. And to keep the whole thing beating a record 17 sections were needed to show all the costumes they will have on the road this year. “ We expect to be making 6,000 costumes this season,” said Hayden Harbin. “ There will be five trucks on the road with special guest stars on the floats (Caribbean Camera hears that Trinidadian singer Nadia Batson