A KALEDISCOPE of costumes are expected to take to the Corporate Area streets tomorrow in Bacchanal Road March.

“We’ll have the biggest and most colourful parade, most music, and the best-looking female revellers,” Michael Ammar Jr, a director of Bacchanal Jamaica, told the Jamaica Observer yesterday.

“The costumes are of contrasting colours and are really pretty,” he continued.

The Bacchanal Jamaica director said 12 disc jocks from Trinidad and Jamaica are scheduled to provide the music.

Ammar Jr said a new element would be introduced to the annual road march.

“This year, we’re having a judging of the costume sections,” said Ammar Jr.

Costume bands will be vying for two awards: Best Costume 2016 and Spirit of Carnival 2016.

Charmaine Franklin, also a Bacchanal Jamaica director, elaborated on this aspect.

“When the costume revellers come together in their sections, it really brings out the beauty in the costumes and creates a visual delight for the spectators. In the past, the crossing the judging stage was the highlight and the climax of the Road Parade, and while this year, we will start with just a judging point on the road, we hope to enhance this next year to create an actual stage over which the revellers will cross,” she said.

Spirit of Carnival will be awarded to the costume section that displays the most energy, vibrancy and spirit on the road parade.

The judges will base their decisions on the creativity of the design, the artistic quality, craftsmanship, presentation of the costume by the revellers, durability of costume, the uniformity of the costume section and the overall visual impact of the section as a group in the parade.

The road march — the final event in Bacchanal Jamaica’s carnival season — begins at the Mas Camp in St Andrew at 10:00 am. It then makes its way down Old Hope Road, then Hope Road, and for a lunch stop on Lady Musgrave Road. After lunch break, the parade is expected to continue along Trafalgar Road to Waterloo Road. West King’s House Road, through to Constant spring Road, and on to Hope Road. The parade then heads back to Mas Camp by way of Trafalgar Road, through Lady Musgrave to Seaview Avenue crossing Old Hope Road on to Mountain View Avenue.

— Brian Bonitto