‘Bacch’ To Life
The quick-fire roadwork for the visiting United States President Barack Obama for his recent one-day visit to our capital city served as a conveyor belt for the airbrushed, bejewelled, coiffed and plumed. With the customary, energy-sustaining music and amenity truck-caravan in tow, Bacchanal Road March revellers invoked — with exuberant reverence — the exhalted name of soca as their preferred fixation, last Sunday, in full view of the ever-curious public eye. Famed photog Dwayne Watkins returns to the welcoming versos and rectos of SO to fashion an intimate visual portrait of the fleeting esctacy associated with the poetic life of day masqueraders, as it intensified but ultimately relinquished its hold on The Rock, for yet another season!
