Inflation has driven up costs for the items needed to make costumes, and on top of that, many bands are boycotting the festival this year due to long-running strife with the association behind Boston Carnival.
Johnson says she attempted to organize an alternative to the CACAB parade, but was told no permits would be granted for another event in the area that weekend. If there aren’t changes at the CACAB, Johnson says she’ll try to convince local officials to give her group a chance to show “what Carnival can be if we work intergenerationally.”
on Sept. 18. Of Shillingford, Smith says “she thinks the Carnival belongs to her, but it doesn’t. It belongs to the community.”Even some of the bands that are participating in the 2022 festivities say they want to see a change. “Honestly, the only reason I’m on the road is that I already have so much money invested,” says Andrea Mercury, the bandleader of, one of the last of the pretty mas bands whose elaborate feathered and jeweled costumes were once synonymous with Carnival.
E-mails and calls to Shillingford weren’t returned, but CACAB public relations officer Ruth Georges spoke to WBUR on behalf of the board. Georges says the board, tasked with raising the six-figure sum needed to mount the parades, has never been in the business of subsidizing bands. “We are responsible for getting permits, for making all of the events of the Carnival happen, for the police detail, and getting money to pay for those things.
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