{"id":297,"date":"2005-04-24T16:01:36","date_gmt":"2005-04-24T16:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.triniview.com\/blog\/?p=297"},"modified":"2010-01-01T22:32:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T22:32:32","slug":"muhammad-abu-bakr-speaks-on-mas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.triniview.com\/blog\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"Muhammad Abu Bakr Speaks on Mas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.triniview.com\/Muhammad_Abu_Bakr\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triniview.com\/blog\/imgs\/mab24040517.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" border=\"0\" title=\"Muhammad Abu Bakr Speaks on Mas\" alt=\"Muhammad Abu Bakr Speaks on Mas\" vspace=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jason Griffith, one of Trinidad and Tobago&#8217;s renowned mas men was born on the 20th June 1927 at Pelham St. Belmont. He attended the Miss Lewis Private School and Belmont Boys&#8217; Intermediate School. As a youth growing up, he was influenced by Jim Harding&#8217;s Mischievous Sailor Band, a very popular band in the thirties. He participated in the revelry of masquerading for the first time in 1946 and has been actively involved in the production of headpieces for the mas ever since. After working with the mas director, Cecil Jobe, Griffith felt ready to launch his own production unit &#8211; the &#8220;U.S.S. Sullivan&#8221; &#8211; in1949 and joined with other bands &#8211; the &#8220;Syncopaters&#8221; and the &#8220;Desperados&#8221;. This was done in the attempt to increase the band&#8217;s numbers to participate in &#8220;big band&#8221; competitions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.triniview.com\/Muhammad_Abu_Bakr\/\">Continue to &#8216;Muhammad Abu Bakr Speaks on Mas&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muhammad Abu Bakr is a Trinidad and Tobago national, Band Leader, Costume Designer, Mas Maker, Singer, Tailor and so much more. He builds constumes locally and abroad. Mr. Bakr said: &#8220;The love in it is not the money, although we need the finance to do it, but the love that exists in it is important. There is nothing like that love you experience. If paradise is like that I want to go, where else would you get that. You should really get into a Mas camp and see how it functions.&#8221; Read on as he shares his experiences of Carnival through the years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[75,27,73,101,69],"tags":[278,79,78],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triniview.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triniview.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triniview.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triniview.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triniview.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.triniview.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/www.triniview.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triniview.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triniview.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triniview.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}