Category Archives: rotc with mandinga

this was the year things got interesting. we played at this stage by the london eye, then in the night procession: 2 singers (maurizio ravalico and osvaldo chacon)  a 10-piece horn section, percussion (lots), a suite of songs. chan-chan, sandunguera, … Continue reading →

finally, an office job you would want. yes, we were taken to the arts council building in clerkenwell to educate the officers in carnival. a small band (jp flavio dave hammadi barak and jim) roamed the building playing conga for … Continue reading →

alas, the gold lamé, harlequin, dick whittington, ivorean mask and polkadot pirate costumes have come and gone; now is the turn of the rainbow pyjamas with french-horn-quartet hat. it has been hard for charles of mandinga to outdo himself, but we … Continue reading →

we are back once again with mandinga @ thames festival, inspired by a well managed night carnival to try out more ambitious repertoire. adrian evans, festival boss, doesn’t really like samba, which is part of the reason that we developed … Continue reading →

rhythms of  the city lives at city university (geddit?) and sadler’s wells is on our doorstep, we could walk the instruments to the gig, a shorter distance than the actual parade was – leaving the newly rebuilt sadler’s wells along … Continue reading →

mandinga arts having bought a milkfloat, have given us the possibility of amplifying more than just voices this year, and thames festival 2005 was out first real variety-show-parade. maurizio and christiane sang, alongside the bateria augmented by 2 horns, bass … Continue reading →

we are back as pirates, you will have read about or seen these costumes in 2004. rotc now play the rhythms of cuban carnival, aided and informed by ace dancer guillermo davis and with plenty of help from the community … Continue reading →

stockwell, as you dear reader well know, is the home of the guy who first imported the pineapple to britain. and you can see pictures of fruity costumes in mandinga’s gallery of the event here. we, however, are dressed as … Continue reading →