It’s Notting Hill Carnival AND Leeds Carnival this weekend (SIREN), so this Sunday (24 Aug, 6-8pm) Tom Robinson invites 6 Music listeners to celebrate this with a playlist featuring music linked to all things carnival.
Held each August Bank Holiday since 1966, the Notting Hill Carnival is the largest festival celebration of its kind in Europe. Every year the streets of West London come alive with the sounds of music from traditional steel bands, Soca & Calypso to the various sound systems playing Reggae, Soul, Funk and House.
Leeds Carnival has been running since 1967 and is the longest running West Indian carnival in Europe, having been going since 1967. Like Notting Hill it’s is a 3-day event, climaxing in a carnival procession on Bank Holiday Monday, which starts and finishes in Potternewton Park in Chapeltown.
So what should we play?
- Steel Band, Soca or Calypso, traditional Carnival music?
- Reggae music, a heavily featured genre from one of the many ‘static sound systems’
- Some of those that have performed live at Notting Hill Carnival in the past like Courtney Pine, Burning Spear and Jamiroquai…?
Or any other weird and wonderful links to carnival...?
Send in suggestions via Twitter using #Carnival6Music, post on the Now Playing blog or the 6 Music and Now Playing Facebook pages, drag tracks onto the collaborative Spotify and Rdio playlists, or email nowplaying@6music.
