Congo Bara (I)

Title: Congo Bara (I)
Date recorded: May 8, 1962
Contributor(s): Performer: Waithe, Reynold; Performer: Waithe, Ellick; Performer: Scott, Oliver; Performer: Roberts, Donald; Performer: O'Brien, Uric; Performer: Joseph, Ned; Performer: Jordan, Malcolm; Performer: Fournillier, Johnnie; Performer: Felix, Sylvie; Performer: Dowdy, Albert; Performer: de Freitas, Vasco; Recordist: Lomax, Alan

Subject(s):

Genre: kalenda

Culture: Caribbean, Trinidad

Instruments: boom pipe, cutter bamboo, fuller bamboo, maracas, voice

Setting: Nicholas Street

Language: Trinidadian Creole French

Location: Maraval, Diego Martin, Trinidad and Tobago

Physical form: Reel to Reel

Tape number: T1097

Track Number: 1

Archive ID: T1097R01

Note: Call-and-response singing between the lead singer and chorus.

Belongs to: Maraval 5/62

About the session: This session features performances by a tamboo bamboo ensemble as well as a number of carnival speeches/boasts by leader/singer Vasco de Freitas. A tamboo bamboo ensemble consists primarily of bamboo stamping tubes of different sizes that are played in a hocket-like fashion.

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