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24/08/2014

#Carnival6Music - help create a Carnival-inspired playlist

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Tom Robinson marks carnival weekend with a carnival-themed playlist.

Help Tom Robinson mark the start of the Notting Hill and Leeds Carnivals with a playlist featuring all things carnival.

It's Notting Hill Carnival AND Leeds Carnival this weekend so Tom Robinson invites 6 Music listeners to celebrate this with a playlist featuring music linked to all things carnival.

Held each August Bank Holiday since 1966, the Notting Hill Carnival is the largest festival celebration of its kind in Europe. Every year the streets of West London come alive with the sounds of music from traditional Steel Bands, Soca & Calypso to the various sound systems playing Reggae, Soul, Funk and House.

Leeds Carnival has been running since 1967 and is the longest running West Indian Carnival in Europe, having been going since 1967. Like Notting Hill it's is a 3-day event, climaxing in a carnival procession on Bank Holiday Monday, which starts and finishes in Potternewton Park in Chapeltown.

So in honour Now Playing hands the show over to 6 Music listeners to compile a playlist that reflects this carnival atmosphere.

Send in suggestions via Twitter using #Carnival6Music, post on the Now Playing blog or the 6 Music and Now Playing Facebook pages, drag tracks onto the collaborative Spotify and Rdio playlists, or via the other usual live show contact methods.

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