The Metamorphosis of Cohobblopot
I have been standing in bedazzled wonderment at the metamorphosis of the event which is known to be the climax of our Crop Over festival aka “Cohobblopot”.
It morphs and morphs and morphs, like a “Terminator” special effect.
First cultural authorities started out by saying there would be NO trini acts headlining crop over events that the government staged.
Then they changed their position and announced that Machel Montano from Trinidad was going to be headliner.
Alright that’s one trini in the “pot” because of Caricom and all that. All right we went on.
Next I see in the media, Trinidadians Patrice Roberts and David Rudder are now being added to be all headliner acts of Cohobblopot, also I hear that Sparrow and Farmer Nappy are included some where in the mix as well.
That’s quite a change in position that started out NO TRINIS will be headlining Cohobblopot.
Next I read that negotiations are now being finalised to include the Brian Lara fete in Cohobblopot. OK then!
There is so much Trini injection into our Cohobblopot that all that is needed to complete the transformation is an appropriate name which optimizes the metamorphosis taking place. Boyce has a suggestion … “Trini-Pot”!
It’s short, to the point and captures the essence of the now diluted event, and best of all its easier to spell…
P.s or what about this one… The “Trini- Metamorphosis-pot”, thats if you must have a long name
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July 12th, 2008 at 9:28 am
Machel, David Rudder, Patrice Roberts, Sparrow…Cohobbolopot sounds divine!!!
I will definitely be there! While i understand that Cohobblopot was intended, in theory, to showcase the best of the festival I just don’t understand the opposition to overseas artists.
In fact, it would be even more of a Cohobblopot if we invited artists from the other islands, not just Trinidad, and from the French and Spanish-speaking Caribbean!
Surely you’re not afraid that our local acts won’t be able to hold their own.
July 12th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
But all those trinis are pretty much part of the Machel ‘package’
Since when u does disagree wid the ncf boh?
July 16th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Yes…….dem is part of d Jumbie HD package…..should not have been a surprise……its going to b d same set up dey been doing from TnT Carnival to MSG to Cropover.
August 5th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Boyce, Ya voice gone but I hope you had a good show anyhow.