TRIBE Way Of The Warrior Review #7

Hi Saucy,

Firstly, I would like to say that I enjoy reading your blog and have been doing so since its inception.

I have played with Tribe every year with the exception of 2010. The last year I played mas with Tribe, I too found the band a bit large in size but I like their customer service and other amenities so I choose to stay with them.

My husband picked up my costume for me and he reported that doing so was effortless. However, for the first time since I have been with Tribe I needed to return to the mas camp for alterations. The most prominent adornment on my headpiece fell off and my waist band was missing the rings that the Velcro tabs were to be looped through.

The folks in alterations were great (Shout out to Martin). I did not wear any part of my costume on Monday but before I left for the road on Tuesday, 2 of the hanging jewels on the belt cracked/detached and was hanging by a thread. I simply removed them and went on my way.

The music on both days was great! I had no issues with food on either days and wasn't aware that there was a shortage until reading the blog. This I find very disturbing because I saw masqueraders from another bands eating the BBQ lunch that is pictured in your blog.

I found the lunch stop on both days to be entirely too LONG! I did not appreciate that we did not cross the downtown stage on either days, and the trucks were moving entirely too fast especially on Tuesday. At times in St. James I had to walk on the sidewalk because I was afraid of being run over. I thoroughly enjoyed myself though in spite of the minor blunders.

Overall, I had a blast and I will play with Tribe again in the future.

Regards,

Triber

Iroquois Individuals

Dear Saucy,

they tried to ruin it for us, but as you can see they failed!

After being informed on Carnival Sunday that we could not be guaranteed the backbacks by a certain Cocktail Girl, you can see by the pictures that Monique and her team (Wes and Akee lin the second picture) came through for us. They stayed up until 7:30am on Monday morning to make us the backpacks, we must commend them for their high work ethic and the fact that they did not want us to be even more uspset and disapointed than we already were............

To Monique, Wes and Akeel, a big thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

And to the Cocktail Girls, one who is extremely rude and the other one in particular we have to tell you that you when you deal with people who are paying large sums of money for an item they expect to get good customer service and the item in excellent condition. If the task at hand was to much for you to handle then that's all you had to say, you had absolutley no right to string us around, and then avoid our phone calls and hit us with a last minute bombshell that we could not get the backbacks, that was downright poor and displayed terrible work ethic. If you cannot handle a simple task like this which you knew about since August 2010, then you have no future in any kind of business Carnival or otherwise.

Best Wishes, Nicha &  Shelly

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