05/27/2025
Here’s a rich list of festivals and celebrations across the Caribbean — they are full of color, culture, music, and tradition.
Which one(s) would you add to your list?
🌴 Caribbean
✅ Trinidad and Tobago Carnival
• When: February or March (before Lent)
• Highlights: Costumes, calypso, soca music, steel pan, massive street parades.
✅ Crop Over (Barbados)
• When: June to August, with Grand Kadooment Day in early August
• Highlights: Costumes, parades, music, food, celebrating the end of the sugar cane harvest.
✅ Junkanoo (Bahamas)
• When: December 26 (Boxing Day) and January 1 (New Year’s Day)
• Highlights: Parades, elaborate costumes, rhythmic drumming, street dancing.
✅ Saint Lucia Jazz and Arts Festival
• When: May
• Highlights: International jazz, R&B, Caribbean music, and art exhibitions.
✅ Saint Kitts Music Festival
• When: June
• Highlights: Caribbean, reggae, soca, calypso, R&B, and international artists.
✅ Carnival (Dominican Republic)
• When: February, with celebrations on every Sunday
• Highlights: Colorful masks, parades, music, and the iconic “diablos cojuelos” (devil costumes).
✅ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Carnival (Vincy Mas)
• When: June–July
• Highlights: Street parades, calypso, soca competitions, pageants.
✅ Puerto Rico San Sebastián Street Festival
• When: Mid-January
• Highlights: Parades, music, dance, artisans, cultural performances.
✅ Reggae Sumfest
• When: July
• Highlights: Music, Art, biggest names in reggae, dancehall, and hip-hop.
