Not about Ferris Wheel s, Theme Park rides, or other events that use the word "Carnival" the Caribbean's Carnivals all have several common themes based on Folklore , culture, and Religion .
Carnival tradition is based on a number of diciplines including: "Playing Mas"/Masquerade; Calypso Music and crowning a Calypso King or Monarch; Panorama (Steel Band Competition); Jouvert morning; and a number of other traditions.
- Burrokeets
- Cow Bands
- Dame Lorraine
- Fancy Indians
- Jab Jab & Jab Molassie
- Midnight Robber
- Moko Jumbies
- Pierrot Grenade
- Calypso Monarch
- Chutney Soca Monarch
- Soca Monarch
- Panorama
- Roadmarch
- Band of the Year
- Queen of the Bands
- King of the Bands
- Junior Carnival (Kiddies Carnival)
The following islands celebrate carnival; approximate dates are given for the concluding festivities on each island. (On some islands, most notably Trinidad And Tobago , the carnival season lasts for over a month, and the exact dates vary from year to year.)
- Anguilla (first week in August)
- Antigua And Barbuda (first week in August)
- Aruba (Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday )
- Barbados (first Monday in August)
- Belize (typically Saturday nearest to September 10)
- Bonaire (Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday)
- British Virgin Islands
Jost Van Dyke , Old Year's Night (New Year's Eve to New Year's Morning)
Tortola , BVI Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival (seven days at the start of Spring)
Tortola , BVI Music Festival (end of May)
Tortola , BVI Emancipation Festival (first Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in August)
Virgin Gorda , Easter Festival (typically Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nearest April 15)
- Cayman Islands (after Ash Wednesday)
- Cuba
- --- Havana (end of July)
- --- Santiago De Cuba (end of July)
- --- Varadero (end of July)
- Curaçao (Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday)
- Dominica (Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday)
- Dominican Republic (late February)
- Grenada (early August)
- Guadeloupe (Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday)
- Guyana
- Haiti (Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday)
- Jamaica , (late March, early April)
- Martinique (Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday)
- Puerto Rico (Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday)
- Saba (early August)
- Saint-Barthélemy (Tuesday before Ash Wednesday)
- Saint Lucia (July)
- Saint Kitts And Nevis (roughly New Year's Day )
- Saint-Martin (Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday)
- Saint Vincent And The Grenadines (End of June thru beginning of July)
- Sint Eustatius (early August)
- Sint Maarten (roughly a month after Easter )
- Trinidad And Tobago (Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday)
- United States Virgin Islands
- --- Saint Croix , Crucian Festival (Ties in with the Christmas Break through the first week in January)
- --- Saint John , Independence Day Festival (July 4)
- --- Saint Thomas , V.I. Carnival (last Friday and Saturday in April)
- Ottawa, ON / " Caribe-Expo " - In the city of Ottawa in Ontario, Canada.
- Montreal, QC / " Carifiesta " - In the city of Montreal in Quebec, Canada, typically 2-3 weeks before Toronto's Caribana.
- Toronto, ON / " Caribana " - Drawing close to a million visitors to the city, Caribana is known as the best Caribbean carnival outside of Trinidad and Tobago.
- Hamilton, ON / " Carnival " - In the city of Hamilton 1 week after Toronto's Caribana.
- Calgary, AB / "Carifest" - In the city of Calgary in Alberta, Canada.
- Edmonton, AB / "Cariwest" - Held annually the second week of August in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Cariwest boasts an amazing display of masqueraders in the road parade, aswell as a beatuiful festival full of food and entertainment in the heart of downtown.
- Atlanta, GA - Last weekend in May, usually falls on Memorial Day weekend
- Baltimore, MD - Baltimore Caribbean-American Festival held every July in Druid Hill Park neighborhood in Baltimore. www.bcacarnival.net
- Boston, MA - Last Saturday in August, Dorchester, MA
- Cambridge, MA - Cambridge Carnival International , Last Sunday in August - Held in Kendall Square
- Chicago, IL - Chicago CARIFETE , Third Saturday in August, on the Midway Plaisance in the confines of the University of Chicago Campus.
- Austin, TX - Carnaval Brasileiro, February 3
- Houston, TX - Usually the weekend aroun fourth of July.
- Long Island, NY - Weekend after Labor Day Carnival - Held in Hempstead
- Miami, FL - The second weekend in October, Columbus Day weekend.
- New York, NY - Labor Day Carnival - Held in Brooklyn, along Eastern Parkway, with over 2.3 million vistors annually
- Orlando, FL -
- Tacoma, WA - PLU campus Carnival, near Fat Tuesday
- Norfolk,VA - Virginia CaribFest, {Link without Title} (2nd weekend in July)
- Washington D.C. -DC Caribbean Festival usually between these dates : June 16-24 (every June). Run through Gerogia Ave., Missouri Ave. all the way to Barry Place. dccaribbeancarnival.com
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