50 Years  -  Shelly Tobitt
Channel: Shelly Tobitt
Date: 2022-06-05

Found this song I did a few years back with Figgy - I always wanted to put it on an Album.  Although Antiguans have been making bacchanal for many hundreds of years, mainly at Christmas time, when this song was composed the Summer Carnival had only been around for 50 years. It had taken the place of Emancipation Day, which was celebrated as August Monday on the First Monday of August each year since Emancipation August1st 1834. Although August 1st, 1834 was a Friday, the celebration holiday was Monday, August 4th, 1834, and continued until August 1956, when the first Carnival was initiated, although it was not officially recognized until the following year, 1957.