Here is some feedback from you about the band.

Hi Rosalin,
I am a trini who just love your band year after year. My wife and I visits home every year except last year,but i can`t miss it. We are now viewing the pictures which is sending chills all over our bodies.
Keep up the good work and we will see you next year. With great respect for a band leader i close.

Merv/ Clare Joseph.

Hello,

I was looking at your website, particularly the sections and I was not only impressed but also amazed with the theme and the concept of 2007 carnival. I will like to personally thank you for such great work, you have brought beauty, creativity, and art back into carnival.

Good Luck!
Jinelle Williams

Hi Mrs G.

you did a great job with this years presentation ,i enjoyed it a great deal ,my 6 yr old ,said she has to play mas with your band for her 1st visit for carnival next year ,so we eagerly wait for next year portrayal ,keep up the great work and look forward to another year of great mas.Tell the whole family I said hello ,also tell Maria I said hi ,by the way this is Dave (fat dave)laugh.Bye for know and take care.

Rosalind,

Just a note during your recovery period to thank you wholeheartedly
for accommodating with both elegance and grace our disparate
grandchildren in your band. They had a wonderful time, and our own
children and their spouses were more than impressed with the quality of the band , and the overall arrangements to help the little ones fit in.
We ourselves  just remained thunderstruck with the band each time we saw it, and do repeat our admiration for your work and its obvious
success. May it continue to thrive!
Meanwhile you will probably be hearing directly from our son ,who is
coming to teach at the Vetmed School at UWI, about next year's chef
d'oeuvre.

Our warmest regards and thanks,  Pat and Terry Glavin

Hi Rosalind:

It's been a while but you are always in my thoughts. How are you and the family I hope everyone is in good health. My family is doing well and of course it's Carnival time again. I always look for your web site. Last year I emailed you but I think there was a problem with the email. Anyway, as usual your band looks FABULOUS!!!!! they can't stop you. I love the theme and you will take it home again this year. We will be coming the full week before Carnival so we will stop in and say hello. Satchell is preparing for SAT exam in March so he's not coming. My love to you and the family and we'll chat very soon. You are the best have a wonderful evening.

Love, Angela& Urban

Ros,

I have decided that if I don't retire now, I may never get to do some of the things I would still like to do before I'm too old to to them, but if I EVER get the urge to get back into costume production and put to use all the innovative techniques and methods I have learned from Sean DeFreitas, I will head straight for your mas' camp.

Each year when I review your website I say to myself that you have outdone yourself, and the next year you prove that your creativity has not reached its peak and again, you do better than the prior year, without compromising the basic roots of our culture.

How sad that Carnival as we know it is a thing of the past for adults, but what a joy that you pass on to our children and grandchildren and continue to keep alive, the true spirit of our carnival.  The talented duo, Chris Santos and Gregory Medina, do a superb job of interpreting your concepts - together you make a fabulous team!  Keep up the good work, I look forward to your 2005 presentation and as always, I'll be there to cheer you on and support your continued efforts to keep our TRINI mas' alive!

Love and best wishes,

Marge Douglas
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
September 6, 2004
 

Dear Rosalind:

It is with great appreciation that I am writing this email.  Your band
brings back very fond memories of what Carnival truly is all about.  If we could only get the adult bands to take this approach.  My 15-year old son who is American born, played mas with your band when he was 11 and 12.  The costume was so magnificent that we brought the costume back with us when he returned to New York.  He has never forgotten the experience.  In fact he had to do a presentation in school about his culture and he took his costume to school and did such a wonderful presentation that it earned him an A+ along with the curiousity of his teachers and all the children in his grade.
According to his homeroom teacher, it was the best and most original
presentation in the class.  We have not been home in 2 years but we allows look at your designs and nothing can beat them.  Next year, my husband and 3 boys hope to be in Trinidad for Carnival 2005 and we very much intend to participate in your band on Carnival Monday.  Your talent is outstanding and quite original.

Lystra Williams

Rosalind: 
I am a Trinidadian living in Houston, Texas. Checked your page, and I am homesick. Great page.  Keep up the good work. 

Barbara Lennard
Tuesday December 08, 1998

Good day Mrs. Gabriel, 
As an avid fan of local mas, I would like to personally congratulate you and your team for the wonderful work you have been doing over the years, and continue to do.  Your band restores in me the fact that the mas is definitely alive and well.  It is very nice to see the young and young at heart out in full costume on Carnival Monday.  Believe me, it is a breath of fresh air from all the mud and other mundane activities of Monday mas.

Again, I would like to wish you all the best for your band this Carnival 1999.  One last thing, I would like to see the other children bands develop your concept with the St. Mary’s Children’s Home.  It is just marvelous.

Sonya S. Thorne
Saturday, January 09, 1999

 

Auntie Rosalind, 
Congratulations on all the successes of the Band.  I hear it was absolutely fabulous and the best thing you have ever done.  We are thrilled for you as we know how hard you all work. 

Congrats again, and we will see you soon. 

Love David and Natalie Sloan
Wednesday, February 17th, 1999

 

Dear Auntie Rosalind,
It’s Soyini here.  Right now I am at the University of Tampa in Florida.  I was pleased to discover the website for your band and happy to see how well my old band has done at all the various competitions this year!  Well, I just wanted to wish you continued success in the future and I know you’ll always love producing the mas for years to come.  Take care.

Soyini Forde
Sunday, February 21, 1999

 

Hi Ros,
Checked out the website – great – at least one sister can say she made her dreams come true. I am proud of you and all the family and friends who pulled together to help achieve your victories. 

Margaret Fraser
Wednesday, February 24, 1999

 

Ms. Gabriel,
It is great to see your mas out on the internet again.  And as usual my daughter is going to take part in the festivities.  I am just requesting to please hold a spot in Dixieland for my daughter Jha’da Harris from New York.  Thank you for your time and co-operation.

Karen-Alicia Hutson-Harr
Thursday, November 11, 1999

 

Good morning Rosalind:
How are you and the family?  Well, Carnival is very much in the air and the sections are looking FABULOUS!!!!!  I was checking each day for them and finally it was worth the wait.  I have already given you Band of the Year 2000.  They can’t touch you!!!  Please register Satchell in the section ALL STARS. 

I can’t wait for March to come home.  Love to all/Angela

Angela Drakes
Tuesday, November 16, 1999

 

Hi Rosalind,
Great complements to you and the crew for the hard work you are putting into the 2000 line for Children’s Carnival.  I’m in Hawaii and it’s great to look at the costumes.  I wish that my kids could experience this as I did as a child and teenager in Trinidad.  Feel free to e-mail me sometime.

Maria Greathouse
Tuesday, November 16, 1999

 

Good day Rosalind Gabriel Mas Camp,
I’ve just perused all of the mas camp sites provided on Tidco’s site, your mas presentation “Panorama” is to be applauded.  The adult bands should take a cue from your presentation this year, perhaps it would derail the regression that’s so obvious.  As I opened your images I thought to myself “That is Mas”.  At first sight the band looks like a multiple winner.  I look forward to making some stunning photographs of your mas band this year.

S. Drakes
Tuesday, January 04, 2000

       

I have just visited your web site and am very impressed with your designs for this year’s carnival.  I’m a children’s carnival designer in the UK.  I’m coming to Trinidad for this year’s Carnival and am keen to make contact with leading children’s designers with a view to working alongside makers to develop my skills.  Could I come and visit your Mas Camp. 

Amanda Price, Bristol, UK
Wednesday, January 19, 2000

 

I am an adult mas player, feeling home sick for carnival so I decided to look at some of the Mas Bands one more time.  I have never seen such a “Gorgeous Band” in a long time.  I  have to tell my sister that Carnival is not quite dead.  She lives is St. Croix and is not on the net like I am so she does not get to see all of the Mas.  Thanks again for the great Mas. 

Sincerely/Carol R
Sunday, January 30, 2000

It is with great appreciation that I am writing this email.  Your band brings back very fond memories of what Carnival truly is all about.  If we could only get the adult bands to take this approach.  My 15-year old son who is American born, played mas with your band when he was 11 and 12.  The costume was so magnificent that we brought the costume back with us when he returned to New York.  He has never forgotten the experience.  In fact he had to do a presentation in school about his culture and he took his costume to school and did such a wonderful presentation that it earned him an A+ along with the curiousity of his teachers and all the children in his grade. According to his homeroom teacher, it was the best and most original
presentation in the class.  We have not been home in 2 years but we allows look at your designs and nothing can beat them. Next year, my husband and 3 boys hope to be in Trinidad for Carnival 2005 and we very much intend to participate in your band on Carnival Monday.  Your talent is outstanding and quite original.

Lystra Williams
Monday, March 01, 2004

Just a note during your recovery period to thank you wholeheartedly for accommodating with both elegance and grace our disparate grandchildren in your band. They had a wonderful time, and our own children and their spouses were more than impressed with the quality of the band , and the overall arrangements to help the little ones fit in. We ourselves  just remained thunderstruck with the band each time we saw it, and do repeat our admiration for your work and its obvious success. May it continue to thrive! Meanwhile you will probably be hearing directly from our son ,who is coming to teach at the Vetmed School at UWI, about next year's chef d'oeuvre.

Our warmest regards and thanks,  Pat and Terry Glavin
Friday, March 19, 2004

E-Mail: rgabriel@tstt.net.tt