BRIGHT colours, artistic costumes, and energetic soca revellers flooded at the Corporate Area’s streets for yesterday’s annual road march.

Bacchanal Jamaica was one of three bands dominating the streets and they did that by offering what it describes as a premium experience.

“Bacchanal Jamaica has the advantage over all other bands. One, we’re ultra-premium, and two we’re a party band. We don’t care about selfies, and posing and make-up. We care about having a good time. We’re not a parade, we’re a party,” Michael Ammar Jr, a director at Bacchanal Jamaica, told the Jamaica Observer.

The Bacchanal Jamaica ‘party’ consisted of band members from different nationalities, a feature which Ammar Jr said has grown over the years.

“We are absolutely seeing more people from overseas. We have people from Australia, Switzerland, Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Canada, US, Panama, Mexico, and more. Today is fantastic; the turnout is great and the women are fantastic. I don’t think I’ve seen so many beautiful women in a long time,” he said.

One reveller, who gave her name as Jeanina, is a Romanian native, said she was attending the parade for a third year in a row and only saw it fitting to be a part of the Bacchanal Jamaica band.

“They are the best. I’ve marched with them before so I trust that their costumes are better than the year before. I love Jamaica period, but the fact that there is carnival here makes it even better,” she told the Observer.

The band set out after 10:00 am and revellers danced to the best in soca and dancehall music courtesy of 14 disc jocks.

The road march would have been incomplete without the usual observers who who lined the route to watch the proceedings, and also get in on the fun.

Adding to the enriched experience was the presence of live performers, including Trinidadian act Kes the Band. The soca artiste mirrored the high energy of band members as he performed tracks like Incredible and Workout. Performances also came from Antiguan Ricardo Drue who delivered songs like Professional.

Xodus and Xaymaca were the other two bands at yesterday’s road march.

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