SOUNDS OF NORTH AND SOUTH

Ska, rock steady, reggae, lover's rock, soca, merengue, salsa, highlife, kwelaLondon's ever-enlarging love affair with ethnic musics lured the largest crowds ever to her 17th annual Notting Hill Carnival. Originally a pre-Lent festivity with calypso roots in the Trinidad of the 1780s, Carnival's two days of parades, costumes, toasting contests, open-air concerts and street dancing provide one of the vear's most populer celebrations.