Bayside Band’s actuality tv present, Bayside Royalty, will return for its third season on November 6, with 20 contestants competing for the titles of Bayside King and Queen and a mixed money prize of ₦7 million.
The competitors, govt produced by former First Lady of Cross River State, Mrs Onari Duke, will function 4 weeks of challenges, performances and private growth actions ahead of the grand finale scheduled for December 4, 2026.
The third season comes as Cross River State prepares for Carnival Calabar 2026, themed “Rethinking Our Collective Destiny”.
Beyond the competitors for the crowns, the programme is designed to reveal contributors to completely different features of the inventive and leisure industries, together with costume design and manufacturing, music manufacturing, choreography, stage efficiency and inventive interpretation.
The contestants may also take part in actions geared toward testing their creativity, confidence, adaptability, teamwork and talent to interact audiences.
According to the organisers, the programme will present alternatives for contributors to work together with established personalities and professionals in tourism, vogue, leisure, cultural management and occasion manufacturing.
The interactions are anticipated to broaden their understanding of the inventive trade and expose them to potential skilled alternatives past the fact tv competitors.
The present may also present a platform for rising skills to develop their private manufacturers and acquire visibility by tv and digital media publicity.
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The season will formally open with an unveiling gala on November 6, adopted by a sequence of aggressive actions and performances resulting in the December 4 finale.
Under the prize construction, the eventual Bayside King and Queen will every obtain ₦2 million, whereas the 5 finalists with the very best votes will share a group prize of ₦500,000.
The contestants adjudged Most Creative and Most Social will every obtain ₦250,000, whereas all 20 contributors are assured ₦100,000 every.
The organisers stated the entire money prize for the season stands at ₦7 million.
Beyond the monetary rewards, the winners may also have a outstanding function within the 2026 Carnival Calabar celebrations, because the newly topped King and Queen are anticipated to steer Bayside Band in the course of the carnival parade on December 28.
Bayside Band is one of the pioneering bands related with Carnival Calabar, which has grow to be a serious cultural and tourism occasion in Nigeria.
Through Bayside Royalty, the band is extending its actions past the annual carnival parade by making a platform for expertise discovery, inventive expression and participation within the leisure trade.
The third season is anticipated so as to add to actions surrounding Carnival Calabar 2026, whereas offering rising skills with alternatives to develop their abilities, construct skilled relationships and acquire publicity throughout the inventive sector.
