NY Carribean Carnival: Preparations underway, excitement builds for annual celebration of all the cultures of the subregion [Video]

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn (WABC) — Preparing for a party this holiday weekend?

Well, look no further than on Labor Day, when the annual New York Caribbean Carnival will take place!

The celebration is the nation’s largest Caribbean cultural festival, attracting more than a million jubilant participants and spectators.

ABC7 New York will provide streaming coverage of the parade here starting at 11 a.m. at abc7ny.com, our mobile and connected TV apps, as well as our YouTube channel.

The highlights will include the triumphant sounds of the steel pan ringing out on the Eastern Parkway at the West Indian American Day Parade.

The “D’radoes Steel Orchestra” is set to bring the relaxing sound of the pan, birthed in Trinidad and Tobago.

“It started off a a biscuit tin drum, tambu bamboo, old drums,” said D’radoes Steel Orchestra tenor section leader Isaiah Barrington. “And now it turned into a whole orchestra.”

The carnival will also be filled with dancers in colorful and bedazzled costumes, as part of the “Mas …