Winneba Masquerade Festival : The First Party Of The Year In Ghana

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If you want to start your New Year with colour, celebration, and pure energy, there is only one place to be on 1st January, Winneba . While everybody is still sleeping after 31st Night, Winneba is already awake. Drums, brass band, costumes, masks. This is the Winneba Masquerade Festival, locally called Fancy Dress. It is the first major festival in Ghana every year. And it is the second biggest festival in Winneba after Aboakyer. There is a morning in Winneba that does not feel like any other morning in Ghana. By 7am, you can hear it. The brass band far away. The drum, shouting and the crowd. If you are in Winneba on that day, you cannot stay in your room. The sound will drag you out. I remember the first time I followed the sound. I thought something had happened. I thought maybe there was a funeral. But when I reached the road, I saw something I had never seen before. Men wearing masks. Big, colourful, scary, beautiful masks. Some looked like animals. Some looked like old white men ...

The 2021 Grammy Awards Postponed Due To Covid-19


The Grammy Awards ceremony to happen on Jan. 31 has been delayed due to the Covid-19 surge in Los Angeles, as indicated by sources. 


Los Angeles is encountering a spike in Covid passings and medical clinic confirmations. Exercise centers, beauty parlors and eateries have been closed down and inhabitants asked to remain at home however much as could reasonably be expected. 

Grammy coordinators said toward the end of last year they were looking to change the manner in which the yearly show was held, managing without crowds and the customary honorary pathway. They likewise said they were taking a gander at organizing a few exhibitions in little open air scenes instead of the huge indoor Staples Center in midtown Los Angeles. 


Beyonce leads nominations for this year’s Grammys with nine nods, in a November announcement that was overshadowed by a stunning snub for Canadian musician The Weeknd.

Voting on the Grammy winners, who are chosen by members of the Recording Academy, ended on Monday.

Organizers of the annual Oscars ceremony last year moved the 2021 presentation to April from late February because of the pandemic, while this year’s Golden Globes ceremony was moved to Feb. 28 from its usual early January date.

Other major awards shows, including television’s Emmy Awards and the MTV Video Music Awards, went ahead last fall with a mix of live, pre-recorded and socially distanced appearances by celebrities.