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Sunday
School Tobago |
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Tobago
Sunday School has nothing to do with sitting in a
classroom in front of a teacher. The Sunday School is
simply a weekly festival of a local steel band here at
Buccoo Beach. At around 9 o'clock the Buccooneers Steel
Orchestra play. There is no
singer, just pans and steel drums with an impressive
caribbean sound. Afterwards there is DJ music until
after 3 am.
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We found a good
definition about the Sunday School on Yahoo
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A
Tobago institution, Sunday School is most definitely not
for the pious. A massive beach party that the whole
island seems to attend, Sunday School is the highlight
of the week's nightlife. The action begins at 9pm, when
the Buccooneers Steel Orchestra play pan for a couple of
hours. The crowd begins to thicken at around 11pm,
when the sound system at the covered beach facilities
begins to play. Music policy is inevitably Jamaican
dancehall with the most popular soca tunes thrown in
alongside hip-hop and R&B. Experienced winers –
"wining" being the locally practised art of gyrating
hips in a provocative manner – display their skills,
foreigners relax and the gigolos (and tourists) scout
for a partner – it's a well-known pick-up joint. The
largest Sunday School of the year takes place each
Easter Tuesday, when several more sound systems add to
the cacophony and parked cars back up all the way to the
Mount Irvine golf course. To avoid car parking hassles
it's a good idea to book a taxi to
collect you at a
prearranged time. Or you join our guesthouse and you
just have to go outside in front of our house.
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