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FRIDAY,
JULY 10, 2015
VOLUME 109, No.28
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NELSON BLOC IS 2015 BAND OF THE YEAR
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Nelson Bloc’s red hot section ‘Spain’, featuring Anna La Borde (up front), 1st Runner-up 2013 Miss SVG. The section ‘Brazil’, home of the ‘lovely game’ and even lovelier women. DIGICEL NELSON BLOC are Band of the Year champions, Vincy Mas 2015. The last time they copped that coveted title was in 2005 with a presentation, ‘You Ask For It’. It seemed a long time to endure being in the socalled ‘wilderness’ of top mas bands here. But in 2015, all their resilience, all their pent-up passion and emotions came rolling out in colour, in sequence, in creative tribute to the world’s most popular sport, with their presentation, ‘Soccer: The Game of the People’. Indications of their resurgence came earlier, at the Junior Carnival, and they steadied themselves along the path of costume bands competitions, waiting to unfold their completeness on Mardi Gras. They had dominated the local mas scene in the 1990s. The question with this victory is: Is this the beginning of another reign? Nelson Bloc unseated 2014 Band of the Year winners, Blondie Bird and Friends, whose 2015
presentation was ‘Illusion, Never See Come See’. They had to settle for second place. SVG Players, who have shared honours with Blondie Bird and Friends through the last decade or so, were adjudged third with ‘Masquerade’. High Voltage Mas Production’s ‘Candy World’ consolidated that band’s position among the leading mas troupes here. They placed fourth. Ahdrenalin Mas, showing signs of increased competitiveness since 2013, settled comfortably in fifth position. ‘Germany’ celebrating their reign as World Soccer champions. All the other competing bands paraded with passion: Xtreme Fanatics — ‘Carnival Fetes’; Imagination Mas band — ‘Love — ‘We’ve Got the Blues’; Tribes Mas Band — ‘An Story’; Dragons Cultural Organization — ‘50th Explosion of Colours’; Melbourne Artisans — Anniversary Celebrating’; and Beautex ‘Masorama 45’; Lynx Mas band — ‘Songs from Machel Montano; Owen Ralph and the Professionals International — ‘Heritage’. (SR)