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Every August bank holiday for the past 50 years, the streets of | 0:00:04 | 0:00:07 | |
W11 in London have been filled with the sound of steel drums, | 0:00:07 | 0:00:11 | |
the smell of Caribbean cooking and the sight of colourful costumes. | 0:00:11 | 0:00:14 | |
This time next week, | 0:00:15 | 0:00:17 | |
these streets will be full of people enjoying the Notting Hill Carnival. | 0:00:17 | 0:00:20 | |
I'm Professor Robert Beckford and I've always been fascinated | 0:00:20 | 0:00:24 | |
by the theology behind the celebration, | 0:00:24 | 0:00:26 | |
so I've come here to find out about the origins of the event | 0:00:26 | 0:00:30 | |
and to meet the people who put their faith into the festival. | 0:00:30 | 0:00:34 | |
# What have you done today to make you feel proud? # | 0:00:35 | 0:00:41 | |
Also on today's show, former M People lead singer Heather Small | 0:00:41 | 0:00:44 | |
talks about her music and faith as well as performing for us. | 0:00:44 | 0:00:49 | |
I used to read a passage from the Bible and then come back | 0:00:49 | 0:00:51 | |
and be asked questions about it and you'd get a little prize, | 0:00:51 | 0:00:55 | |
which was a sweet, and that was always an incentive for me. | 0:00:55 | 0:00:58 | |
So Bible studies and sweets, it went well for me. | 0:00:58 | 0:01:02 | |
And we're in Batley, West Yorkshire, for another of our unsung | 0:01:04 | 0:01:08 | |
-rugby heroes. -Thanks very much. Keep smiling, go on. | 0:01:08 | 0:01:11 | |
Jim McVeigh will be joining the rest of the Songs Of Praise choir | 0:01:11 | 0:01:14 | |
chosen to sing Abide With Me at the Rugby League Challenge Cup Final | 0:01:14 | 0:01:18 | |
at Wembley next weekend. | 0:01:18 | 0:01:20 | |
Today's programme will have music both traditional and modern | 0:01:30 | 0:01:33 | |
from the capital and across the country. | 0:01:33 | 0:01:37 | |
And we start south of the river from here in Brixton at Ruach Church | 0:01:37 | 0:01:41 | |
with an enthusiastic hymn of praise. | 0:01:41 | 0:01:44 | |
RHYTHMIC CLAPPING | 0:01:44 | 0:01:45 | |
STEEL DRUM MUSIC | 0:03:31 | 0:03:34 | |
Carnivals in this area of London date back to the late 1950s | 0:03:37 | 0:03:41 | |
at a time when racial integration was a real issue. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:45 | |
Michael King's father, Sam, was a local pastor | 0:03:45 | 0:03:48 | |
and one of the founders of the first carnival. | 0:03:48 | 0:03:52 | |
It wasn't a radical political statement, | 0:03:52 | 0:03:54 | |
it was a statement of unity. | 0:03:54 | 0:03:56 | |
It was something that needed to be done at the time to exhibit | 0:03:56 | 0:04:00 | |
Caribbean culture, | 0:04:00 | 0:04:01 | |
bring a positive light to Caribbean culture, | 0:04:01 | 0:04:04 | |
bring a bit of racial harmony. | 0:04:04 | 0:04:06 | |
It was a way of getting the information over of, | 0:04:06 | 0:04:09 | |
"These are us from the colonies, here's an experience, | 0:04:09 | 0:04:13 | |
"an example of how we live | 0:04:13 | 0:04:15 | |
"and let us live together in harmony and peace." | 0:04:15 | 0:04:19 | |
Carnival, according to the dictionary, | 0:04:19 | 0:04:21 | |
means an annual festival, | 0:04:21 | 0:04:22 | |
typically during the week before Lent in Roman Catholic countries, | 0:04:22 | 0:04:26 | |
involving processions, music, dancing and the use of masquerade. | 0:04:26 | 0:04:31 | |
The carnival arose out of the backdrop of the race riots in the late 1950s. | 0:04:31 | 0:04:36 | |
I just wondered if you could tell me whether you think it's lost | 0:04:36 | 0:04:40 | |
its connection to Christianity. | 0:04:40 | 0:04:42 | |
That's a very good question. | 0:04:42 | 0:04:44 | |
Some would say yes but I think things evolve in a way | 0:04:44 | 0:04:47 | |
because it's all-encompassing. | 0:04:47 | 0:04:49 | |
They have fun together at carnival, people enjoy one another's | 0:04:49 | 0:04:53 | |
presence, they enjoy the whole experience, that is an expression | 0:04:53 | 0:04:56 | |
of love, which is the fundamental tenet of Christianity. | 0:04:56 | 0:05:00 | |
It's the foundation of knowing God. | 0:05:00 | 0:05:02 | |
Police have arrested over 100 alleged gang members ahead of | 0:05:02 | 0:05:06 | |
the weekend's Notting Hill Carnival. | 0:05:06 | 0:05:08 | |
We've had violence, we've had robberies, | 0:05:08 | 0:05:10 | |
we've had tragic deaths and all sorts of things happening. | 0:05:10 | 0:05:14 | |
I believe that there is always evil and I think sometimes it rears | 0:05:14 | 0:05:18 | |
its ugly head and unfortunately it becomes very newsworthy. | 0:05:18 | 0:05:22 | |
What I'd like to see is newsworthiness of the good things | 0:05:22 | 0:05:25 | |
that are happening. Let's celebrate the good more. | 0:05:25 | 0:05:28 | |
So, in some ways, it's evolved and changed but it's up to us to bring | 0:05:28 | 0:05:32 | |
it back to the core root, which is that God is love and every time | 0:05:32 | 0:05:35 | |
you're enjoying yourself and loving somebody, he's in the midst of it. | 0:05:35 | 0:05:38 | |
Even though Michael was raised a Christian, | 0:05:38 | 0:05:41 | |
it wasn't until later in life that he found faith. | 0:05:41 | 0:05:45 | |
I had clothing shops when I was younger and it happened in | 0:05:45 | 0:05:48 | |
Brixton when a friend came, he was evangelising at Brixton station, | 0:05:48 | 0:05:52 | |
he was driving everybody crazy, | 0:05:52 | 0:05:54 | |
they actually wanted to attack him and we took him into the shop | 0:05:54 | 0:05:58 | |
to protect him and he spoke to us and he evangelised and he said, | 0:05:58 | 0:06:02 | |
"Look, Christ is real. Everything else doesn't count. | 0:06:02 | 0:06:05 | |
"What counts is your relationship." | 0:06:05 | 0:06:07 | |
And within two weeks, | 0:06:07 | 0:06:09 | |
I was receiving Christ tearfully into my life again. | 0:06:09 | 0:06:12 | |
And for someone like me to be called, I was like, | 0:06:12 | 0:06:14 | |
"God, are you sure you've got it right? I think you've got it wrong." | 0:06:14 | 0:06:17 | |
But because of life experiences, | 0:06:17 | 0:06:19 | |
and because I know where I've come from and the past that I've had | 0:06:19 | 0:06:23 | |
and haven't been in church all my life, | 0:06:23 | 0:06:25 | |
I'm honoured and privileged to serve him. | 0:06:25 | 0:06:27 | |
Are you still involved in the carnival? | 0:06:27 | 0:06:29 | |
We're looking at setting up carnival pastors and this year, | 0:06:29 | 0:06:32 | |
some of us will be there, we'll be walking round there to support, | 0:06:32 | 0:06:36 | |
help, love and answer questions because you find when you're | 0:06:36 | 0:06:39 | |
in clergy collar, people ask you, "Is God real? Why do you love him? | 0:06:39 | 0:06:42 | |
"Why is there pain and suffering in the world?" | 0:06:42 | 0:06:45 | |
I blame that on the devil instantly. | 0:06:45 | 0:06:47 | |
You know, this is the kind of thing that happens when you make | 0:06:47 | 0:06:51 | |
yourself available to answer God's call. | 0:06:51 | 0:06:53 | |
Next week, 32 rugby-league-mad fans will walk out onto the centre | 0:09:53 | 0:09:58 | |
of the Wembley pitch and sing Abide With Me. | 0:09:58 | 0:10:01 | |
It will be the culmination of a long search by Songs Of Praise | 0:10:01 | 0:10:05 | |
to find a choir of superfans of the sport to sing this meaningful | 0:10:05 | 0:10:10 | |
and powerful hymn. | 0:10:10 | 0:10:12 | |
At the age of 84, Jim McVeigh will be the oldest member of our choir. | 0:10:12 | 0:10:18 | |
# Abide with me... # | 0:10:18 | 0:10:22 | |
I've been going to Wembley for many, many, many years. | 0:10:22 | 0:10:24 | |
And I used to see the choirs | 0:10:24 | 0:10:26 | |
and I used to sing Abide With Me and cry... | 0:10:26 | 0:10:28 | |
You're asking for God to come down, | 0:10:30 | 0:10:33 | |
steer me through the stormy waters, | 0:10:33 | 0:10:35 | |
help me through stressful times. | 0:10:35 | 0:10:38 | |
I never thought I'd be out there singing it | 0:10:39 | 0:10:42 | |
and that is a dream come true. | 0:10:42 | 0:10:44 | |
# Abide with me. # | 0:10:45 | 0:10:52 | |
It's very quiet yet, you see, | 0:10:56 | 0:10:57 | |
it'll liven up in about half an hour. | 0:10:57 | 0:10:59 | |
Jim grew up supporting Batley Bulldogs and remembers his | 0:10:59 | 0:11:03 | |
father bringing him here in the 1930s. | 0:11:03 | 0:11:05 | |
And he'd a long, black overcoat and when it was bad weather, | 0:11:07 | 0:11:13 | |
he used to put me between his legs and pull me up | 0:11:13 | 0:11:16 | |
and I used to peep out through the gap. | 0:11:16 | 0:11:19 | |
Jim is a keen volunteer and at every home game, | 0:11:21 | 0:11:24 | |
he can be found running the car park. | 0:11:24 | 0:11:27 | |
Keep smiling, go on. | 0:11:27 | 0:11:28 | |
Over the years, | 0:11:29 | 0:11:30 | |
he's done a tremendous amount of work for our club, | 0:11:30 | 0:11:33 | |
so we made him an honorary member | 0:11:33 | 0:11:35 | |
on his 80th birthday. | 0:11:35 | 0:11:38 | |
He's a treasure, isn't he? | 0:11:38 | 0:11:39 | |
They talk about national treasures, Jim's a Batley treasure. | 0:11:39 | 0:11:43 | |
Jim was nominated to sing in the choir by his eldest son, Andrew, | 0:11:45 | 0:11:50 | |
not only for his love of the game but also for his work in | 0:11:50 | 0:11:53 | |
the wider community. | 0:11:53 | 0:11:55 | |
Two years ago, Jim fell seriously ill. | 0:11:55 | 0:11:59 | |
I was a patient on Ward 8 at the hospital with pneumonia. | 0:11:59 | 0:12:04 | |
And I could have died on that ward. | 0:12:04 | 0:12:07 | |
And I came through and I can sing | 0:12:08 | 0:12:11 | |
and I can shout off at the Bulldogs. | 0:12:11 | 0:12:14 | |
-Morning, everybody. -Morning. | 0:12:14 | 0:12:17 | |
To show his gratitude, the former club singer helps run a choir | 0:12:17 | 0:12:21 | |
session in the hospital chapel for others with respiratory illnesses. | 0:12:21 | 0:12:25 | |
A lot of us have bad chests and asthma and one thing and another | 0:12:26 | 0:12:31 | |
so my little nickname for the choir is the Cough Mixtures. | 0:12:31 | 0:12:36 | |
One, two, three... Ah! | 0:12:36 | 0:12:40 | |
Again. Ah! | 0:12:40 | 0:12:43 | |
Ah! | 0:12:43 | 0:12:44 | |
Don't think that we're the best singers in the world | 0:12:44 | 0:12:47 | |
but it does open our lungs up and gets us going, so... | 0:12:47 | 0:12:51 | |
# Fly me to the moon and let me play among the stars... # | 0:12:52 | 0:12:59 | |
He does a great job. | 0:12:59 | 0:13:00 | |
We all suffer from the same sort of things and it's such an uplift. | 0:13:00 | 0:13:04 | |
Really, you walk out of here, you feel ten feet high. | 0:13:04 | 0:13:07 | |
# Hold my hand... # | 0:13:08 | 0:13:11 | |
And next week, when Jim sings at Wembley, he'll be flying high too. | 0:13:11 | 0:13:16 | |
I'll do my family proud, | 0:13:16 | 0:13:17 | |
I'll do Batley Bulldogs proud, and I'll do myself proud. | 0:13:17 | 0:13:21 | |
# Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye | 0:13:21 | 0:13:25 | |
# Cheerio, here I go, on my way... # | 0:13:25 | 0:13:29 | |
In the meantime, | 0:13:29 | 0:13:30 | |
Jim has chosen our next hymn for the strength it gives him. | 0:13:30 | 0:13:34 | |
My favourite hymn is How Great Thou Art | 0:13:37 | 0:13:40 | |
and it means such a lot to me. I've sung it in the choirs, | 0:13:40 | 0:13:45 | |
it's registered with me and that's my favourite hymn. | 0:13:45 | 0:13:48 | |
This area of West London has produced some great musical talent | 0:16:08 | 0:16:12 | |
including Rita Ora, Mark Ronson and Heather Small. | 0:16:12 | 0:16:17 | |
Heather was born and raised in this neighbourhood and went to | 0:16:17 | 0:16:20 | |
the Good News Club on this street. | 0:16:20 | 0:16:23 | |
We caught up with her to find out more about her life, | 0:16:23 | 0:16:26 | |
faith and music. | 0:16:26 | 0:16:28 | |
# One night in heaven One night in heaven... # | 0:16:30 | 0:16:33 | |
Heather Small made her name when her band, M People, | 0:16:33 | 0:16:36 | |
made it big in the '90s. | 0:16:36 | 0:16:38 | |
But a lot of her fans may not know about her religious roots. | 0:16:38 | 0:16:42 | |
# One night in heaven One night in heaven... # | 0:16:42 | 0:16:45 | |
I grew up with music from hymns, from gospel and also from secular. | 0:16:45 | 0:16:51 | |
We heard Aretha's rock-steady, | 0:16:51 | 0:16:53 | |
we had some ska | 0:16:53 | 0:16:55 | |
and reggae and pop. | 0:16:55 | 0:16:57 | |
For me, to sing a religious song is not unfamiliar to me. | 0:16:57 | 0:17:03 | |
I think that if it's good music and it's about how you feel | 0:17:03 | 0:17:07 | |
and what you want to say, then it makes sense. | 0:17:07 | 0:17:10 | |
# You're my masterpiece... # | 0:17:10 | 0:17:14 | |
My mother's father used to preach and she grew up in | 0:17:14 | 0:17:17 | |
a household that was ultra-religious. | 0:17:17 | 0:17:19 | |
No TV, no radio, all the songs that they could sing and all | 0:17:19 | 0:17:25 | |
the entertainment was through church. | 0:17:25 | 0:17:27 | |
She sent us to Sunday school. | 0:17:27 | 0:17:30 | |
They used to always read a passage from the Bible and come back | 0:17:30 | 0:17:33 | |
and be asked questions about it and you'd get a little prize, | 0:17:33 | 0:17:37 | |
which was a sweet, and that was always an incentive for me, | 0:17:37 | 0:17:40 | |
so Bible studies and sweets, it went well for me. | 0:17:40 | 0:17:44 | |
I encountered the Good News Club when I was about 11 | 0:17:46 | 0:17:50 | |
and I heard this singing. | 0:17:50 | 0:17:52 | |
It was so uplifting, I thought, | 0:17:52 | 0:17:54 | |
"I'm going to just go and see what that's about." | 0:17:54 | 0:17:56 | |
And I've always been curious about faith, about God. | 0:17:56 | 0:17:59 | |
And I went in, it was very welcoming, very welcoming, | 0:17:59 | 0:18:02 | |
and they had Bible studies that engaged and they liked to sing. | 0:18:02 | 0:18:07 | |
They sang modern hymns. | 0:18:07 | 0:18:09 | |
# That is why I can sing | 0:18:09 | 0:18:12 | |
# That is why I can shout... # | 0:18:12 | 0:18:14 | |
I'm very old-school when it comes to the gospel. | 0:18:14 | 0:18:17 | |
My favourite definitely has to be Mahalia Jackson. | 0:18:17 | 0:18:20 | |
She has that power, she's just regal and when she sings, | 0:18:20 | 0:18:24 | |
and she sings with that faith in her heart. | 0:18:24 | 0:18:27 | |
# Come on, children, let's sing | 0:18:27 | 0:18:29 | |
# Come on, children, let's shout... # | 0:18:29 | 0:18:32 | |
If you're a believer or not, you listen to Mahalia Jackson - | 0:18:32 | 0:18:37 | |
even if it's for three minutes - you're a believer. | 0:18:37 | 0:18:40 | |
And when somebody's got that kind of power, you know... | 0:18:40 | 0:18:43 | |
I bow down. | 0:18:43 | 0:18:44 | |
# What have you done today to make you feel proud? # | 0:18:46 | 0:18:51 | |
Something like Proud, you know, Search For The Hero, | 0:18:51 | 0:18:54 | |
I feel that those songs are based in faith, are based in love. | 0:18:54 | 0:18:59 | |
So I think my faith has helped me make choices, that's what it is. | 0:18:59 | 0:19:03 | |
Not just about song choices but life choices and whether something | 0:19:03 | 0:19:08 | |
is morally right for me. | 0:19:08 | 0:19:10 | |
And whether it's something I should be doing, | 0:19:10 | 0:19:13 | |
whether it's something that I could be proud of. | 0:19:13 | 0:19:15 | |
# What have you done today to make you feel proud? # | 0:19:15 | 0:19:20 | |
People Get Ready is an African-American gospel-sounding song | 0:19:20 | 0:19:25 | |
but some of the greats have done it like Curtis Mayfield, | 0:19:25 | 0:19:28 | |
who does it with such ease and beauty, but this is my rendition. | 0:19:28 | 0:19:33 | |
It's about gathering people together, it's about empathy, | 0:19:35 | 0:19:39 | |
and that faith should bring a oneness and not a division. | 0:19:39 | 0:19:43 | |
And faith is the key and those words resonate. | 0:19:43 | 0:19:47 | |
# People get ready | 0:19:47 | 0:19:50 | |
# There's a train a-coming | 0:19:50 | 0:19:54 | |
# You don't need no baggage | 0:19:54 | 0:19:57 | |
# You just get onboard | 0:19:57 | 0:20:00 | |
# All you need is faith, yeah | 0:20:00 | 0:20:03 | |
# To hear the diesels humming | 0:20:03 | 0:20:06 | |
# You don't need no ticket | 0:20:06 | 0:20:09 | |
# You just thank the Lord | 0:20:09 | 0:20:12 | |
# People get ready | 0:20:13 | 0:20:16 | |
# There's a train to Jordan | 0:20:16 | 0:20:20 | |
# Picking up passengers | 0:20:20 | 0:20:23 | |
# From coast to coast | 0:20:23 | 0:20:26 | |
# Faith is the key, yeah | 0:20:26 | 0:20:29 | |
# Open the doors and board them | 0:20:29 | 0:20:33 | |
# You don't need no ticket | 0:20:33 | 0:20:35 | |
# You just get onboard | 0:20:35 | 0:20:39 | |
# Now there ain't no room, yeah | 0:20:39 | 0:20:42 | |
# For the hopeless sinner | 0:20:42 | 0:20:45 | |
# Who has hurt all mankind | 0:20:45 | 0:20:48 | |
# Just to save his own | 0:20:48 | 0:20:52 | |
# Have pity on those | 0:20:52 | 0:20:55 | |
# Whose chances are thinner | 0:20:55 | 0:20:58 | |
# Cos there's no hiding place | 0:20:58 | 0:21:01 | |
# From the kingdom's throne | 0:21:01 | 0:21:04 | |
# I said people get ready | 0:21:04 | 0:21:08 | |
# There's a train a-coming | 0:21:08 | 0:21:11 | |
# Picking up passengers | 0:21:11 | 0:21:14 | |
# From coast to coast | 0:21:14 | 0:21:18 | |
# All you need is faith | 0:21:18 | 0:21:20 | |
# To hear the diesels humming | 0:21:20 | 0:21:24 | |
# You don't need no ticket | 0:21:24 | 0:21:27 | |
# You just thank the Lord | 0:21:27 | 0:21:31 | |
# You don't need no ticket | 0:21:31 | 0:21:34 | |
# Just thank the Lord | 0:21:34 | 0:21:37 | |
# You don't need no ticket, no baggage, no guards | 0:21:37 | 0:21:40 | |
# No | 0:21:40 | 0:21:43 | |
# You just thank the Lord | 0:21:43 | 0:21:47 | |
# This train is bound for Jordan | 0:21:47 | 0:21:50 | |
# You just th-th-thank the Lord, yeah | 0:21:50 | 0:21:53 | |
# People get ready | 0:21:53 | 0:21:55 | |
# Yeah, get on, get on, get onboard | 0:21:55 | 0:21:59 | |
# Thank the Lord | 0:21:59 | 0:22:01 | |
# And get onboard. # | 0:22:01 | 0:22:07 | |
The unmistakable voice of Heather Small recorded just down | 0:22:09 | 0:22:12 | |
the road at the Hackney Empire. | 0:22:12 | 0:22:15 | |
Our next piece of music comes from further afield. | 0:22:15 | 0:22:18 | |
This is You Are Good from the New Community Church in Southampton. | 0:22:18 | 0:22:22 | |
One of the most distinctive sights the Notting Hill Carnival is the costume parade. | 0:25:21 | 0:25:26 | |
Giselle Carter is following in her father's footsteps, | 0:25:26 | 0:25:29 | |
creating colourful outfits for the Kiddies' Carnival. | 0:25:29 | 0:25:32 | |
Carnival is about masquerade. | 0:25:32 | 0:25:34 | |
It's about having fun and dressing up and being free. | 0:25:34 | 0:25:39 | |
Our costumes this year, we portray petals, so it's part of nature, | 0:25:39 | 0:25:43 | |
nature's beauty. So we are celebrating the beauty of nature. | 0:25:43 | 0:25:46 | |
I guess people really dress up because it's | 0:25:46 | 0:25:49 | |
-a great way to have fun. -What do you mean by masquerade? | 0:25:49 | 0:25:53 | |
Well, I'm from Trinidad and Tobago | 0:25:53 | 0:25:55 | |
and for us, the masquerade started as | 0:25:55 | 0:25:57 | |
a result of the freed slaves back in 1833. | 0:25:57 | 0:26:00 | |
And carnival in the Caribbean and certainly in Trinidad and | 0:26:00 | 0:26:02 | |
Tobago was born out of oppression and into freedom | 0:26:02 | 0:26:06 | |
so that's where the freedom of expression comes from. | 0:26:06 | 0:26:09 | |
Hence the reason why you have fantastic costumes that you | 0:26:09 | 0:26:12 | |
see from all the different carnivals around the world. | 0:26:12 | 0:26:14 | |
One of the things that has intrigued me is the relationship | 0:26:14 | 0:26:18 | |
between carnival and Christianity and I just wondered if you | 0:26:18 | 0:26:21 | |
see carnival having Christian expression, | 0:26:21 | 0:26:25 | |
or has it moved beyond that and away from any kind of religious meaning? | 0:26:25 | 0:26:30 | |
No, I think there is still a lot of spirituality within the carnival. | 0:26:30 | 0:26:34 | |
And there are lots of songs that reflect that as well. | 0:26:34 | 0:26:38 | |
And a lot of the slaves, don't forget, were converted | 0:26:40 | 0:26:43 | |
Christians so they did use their spirituality, | 0:26:43 | 0:26:46 | |
they did use their religion in a creative way | 0:26:46 | 0:26:49 | |
in that freedom of expression, | 0:26:49 | 0:26:51 | |
so there is a direct correlation and link between the two. | 0:26:51 | 0:26:54 | |
Is your creativity an expression of your faith and spirituality? | 0:26:54 | 0:26:59 | |
Yes, it is. Yes, it is. | 0:26:59 | 0:27:01 | |
'Our talents were given to us by the creator and once we use or if | 0:27:01 | 0:27:07 | |
'we're able to use our talents then it is using something that | 0:27:07 | 0:27:11 | |
'he gave us and even to glorify his name as well, | 0:27:11 | 0:27:15 | |
'so I think being creative is godlike, if I would say, | 0:27:15 | 0:27:20 | |
'because it's a God-given talent that has been given to us and when' | 0:27:20 | 0:27:24 | |
we use it then we are then glorifying God | 0:27:24 | 0:27:27 | |
by using what he's given us. | 0:27:27 | 0:27:29 | |
'I recently lost my father a few months ago and when I create | 0:27:31 | 0:27:35 | |
'these costumes, I feel him within me, you know, | 0:27:35 | 0:27:40 | |
'I feel his creativity and his spirit helping me,' | 0:27:40 | 0:27:43 | |
moving me along and even the whole creative process from | 0:27:43 | 0:27:47 | |
thinking about the concept to actually making it physically | 0:27:47 | 0:27:50 | |
with my hands because he was really, really creative. | 0:27:50 | 0:27:52 | |
So it's really, really important for me | 0:27:52 | 0:27:54 | |
to get involved in this because I really want to see it grow. | 0:27:54 | 0:27:57 | |
I really want people to experience the joy that comes with | 0:27:57 | 0:28:01 | |
carnival because when you are on the road for carnival, | 0:28:01 | 0:28:05 | |
all you can think about is having fun. | 0:28:05 | 0:28:07 | |
# Guide me, o thou great redeemer | 0:28:09 | 0:28:12 | |
# Pilgrim through this barren land | 0:28:12 | 0:28:16 | |
# I am weak but thou art mighty | 0:28:16 | 0:28:20 | |
# Hold me with thy powerful hand | 0:28:20 | 0:28:24 | |
# Bread of heaven Bread of heaven | 0:28:24 | 0:28:28 | |
# Feed me till I want no more | 0:28:28 | 0:28:31 | |
# Want no more | 0:28:31 | 0:28:33 | |
# Feed me till I want no more | 0:28:33 | 0:28:37 | |
# Oh, oh, oh, oh | 0:28:37 | 0:28:40 | |
# Oh, oh, oh, oh | 0:28:40 | 0:28:44 | |
# Open now the crystal fountain | 0:28:44 | 0:28:48 | |
# Whence the healing stream doth flow | 0:28:48 | 0:28:52 | |
# Let the fiery cloudy pillar | 0:28:52 | 0:28:57 | |
# Lead me all my journey though | 0:28:57 | 0:29:00 | |
# Strong deliverer Strong deliverer | 0:29:00 | 0:29:05 | |
# Be thou still my strength and shield | 0:29:05 | 0:29:07 | |
# Strength and shield | 0:29:07 | 0:29:09 | |
# Be thou still my strength and shield | 0:29:09 | 0:29:13 | |
# Oh, oh, oh, oh | 0:29:13 | 0:29:16 | |
# Oh, oh, oh, oh | 0:29:16 | 0:29:20 | |
# When I tread the verge of Jordan | 0:29:20 | 0:29:24 | |
# Bid my fears subside | 0:29:24 | 0:29:28 | |
# Death of death And hell's destruction | 0:29:28 | 0:29:32 | |
# Land me safe on Canaan's side | 0:29:32 | 0:29:36 | |
# Songs of praises | 0:29:36 | 0:29:38 | |
# Songs of praises | 0:29:38 | 0:29:41 | |
# I will ever give to thee | 0:29:41 | 0:29:45 | |
# Give to thee | 0:29:45 | 0:29:48 | |
# I will ever give to thee. # | 0:29:48 | 0:29:56 | |
The origins of the carnival may be disputed and over the years, | 0:30:04 | 0:30:07 | |
they may have become known for reasons other than purely celebration, | 0:30:07 | 0:30:12 | |
but when it's at its best, | 0:30:12 | 0:30:14 | |
the carnival can live up to the ideal of Sam King who said, | 0:30:14 | 0:30:18 | |
"If you lift up the name of God, he will lift you." | 0:30:18 | 0:30:22 | |
Sentiments that are expressed in the words and actions of our final hymn today. | 0:30:22 | 0:30:26 | |
Thanks for watching. | 0:30:26 | 0:30:28 |