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January 6, 2012
Glitz and Glamour for CIC’s 10th All-Inclusive Carnival Fete
Last year, two highly-respected newspaper feature editors rated Fete With The Saints as one of the top Carnival fetes for the 2011 season and termed it a ‘must’ for 2012. That rating was based on factors such as ambience, the range and quality of cuisine, the music and of course, value for money.
Come Saturday January 28th, the St. Mary’s College Past Students’ Union, the organisation that hosts Fete With The Saints annually, intends to surpass the heights achieved last year. This is because this year is the tenth anniversary of the event. To mark this auspicious occasion, the organizing committee is pulling out all the stops to ensure that patrons have a most pleasurable and unforgettable experience.
In terms of music, the line-up that provided the scintillating music last year has been retained. Patrons will dance to the sounds of Kes the Band, led by Kees Dieffenthaller, the reigning Groovy Soca Monarch, who will obviously be keen to show his fans that he has what it takes to be crowned monarch for a second successive year. Popular crossover band Dil-e-Nadan, fronted by Raymond Ramnarine, will also be showing off their wares to prove that they are the best in their category. Those two bands will match notes with perennial crowd pleaser, Roy Cape All Stars that will feature a powerful trio of front-line singers in the experienced Blaxx, the sultry Rita Jones and the fast-rising Ricardo Drue, a former lead singer with Imij & Co. In order to ensure non-stop party music, the popular DJ Scooby will be pumping the latest soca hits in between the performances of the three bands. There will also be performances by the more popular soca artistes.
Providing value for money to its patrons has always been an objective that the organizing committee of Fete With The Saints has been able to achieve. Thus it is that while the admission fee for a number of other All-Inclusive carnival fetes has climbed substantially this year, the Saints past students have increased their admission fee by just $25, to six hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Patrons attending Fete With The Saints will again be assured a totally enjoyable evening, with pleasant company, mouth-watering cuisine, great music, a fully stocked bar with premium drinks and non-alcoholic drinks, a jump-up to pan round-de-neck music to end the fete and of course, security for their vehicles. Attention is being paid to every detail, including the transformation of the CIC compound into a carnival wonderland that will be most pleasing to the eye. Towards this end, the organizing committee has engaged the services of Ricardo Gomez who is fast emerging as one of the most sought after decorators in T&T. All of this gives testimony to the famous tag line for the event: “Great Music + Nice People = CIC All-Inclusive Fete”. This year, because of the 10th anniversary, there will be that much extra to bring out the glitz and glamour guaranteed to wow patrons.
In addition, patrons will have the satisfaction of knowing that the full proceeds of this and all other fund-raising events hosted by the CIC past students will be used to fund much-needed projects for the benefit of present and future students of the college. Within recent years, the past students have funded major projects such as the purchase of a school bus, the establishment of a second computer lab and a state of the art foreign languages lab that will be commissioned this month.
Tickets are available from Sedley Joseph at the Past Students’ office (624-8468), Mark Bishop (680-1087), Brevard Nelson (683-8188), Richard Joseph (681-5673), Joe Hadad (680-3650), Enrico Rajah at Trini Revellers’ Mas Camp (745-4391) and in South Trinidad from Felix Montenegro (684-5839) and Jean Boucaud (475-5293).
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