Events
January |
|
New Years Day |
|
Spice Island Billfish Tournament |
|
Grenada Sailing Festival |
February |
|
Grenada Independence |
|
Carriacou’s Carnival Carnival celebrations in Carriacou are held from the weekend before the start of the Christian Lenten period. In the tradition of Caribbean Carnivals, these celebrations include calypso competitions and the parade of brightly costumed masqueraders through the streets of the Hillsborough. Unique to Carriacou Carnival is the Shakespeare Mas, in which brightly dressed Peirrots engage in a battle of wits using only lines from Shakespearean plays. The competitor without a quick reply earns a playful stroke from his opponent's stick. |
March |
|
St. Patrick’s Day Festival |
April |
|
Grenada Triathlon |
|
Carriacou Maroon Music Festival Launched in 2001, the Carriacou Maroon Music Festival provides a scintillating 3-day display of Big Drum Nation Dance, String Band Music and Quadrille Dancing at the Belair Park in Carriacou. The objectives of the Carriacou Maroon Music Festival include preserving our rich cultural expressions and showcasing it to others by attracting visitors from North America, Europe and the Caribbean in one setting, one spirit, as one big happy family. Sample the maroon food of rolled rice and coo-coo, with stewed peas, provisions and your choice of chicken, mutton or pork, all cooked in large iron pots on open fires. Then experience the nightly shows with Big Drum National Dance, String Band Music, Shakespeare Mas, Quadrille and African Dances, blended with a touch of Calypso, Reggae, Soul and Blues. |
|
Easter Celebration |
May |
|
Labor Day |
|
Drum Festival |
June |
|
Fisherman’s Birthday |
July/August |
|
Carriacou Regatta The Carriacou Regatta began in 1965 as a local boat race using the traditional fishing workboats, to continue the indigenous art of Boat Building handed down by Irish and Scottish Ancestors. Since that time, it has evolved into a major Caribbean event, held over the Emancipation holiday weekend, with keen competition among sailors from many of the neighboring islands - Grenada, Tobago, Martinique, Antigua and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Highlights include Miss Aquaval Queen Show, Miss Wet T-shirt, Donkey Racing, Greasy Pole and numerous cultural and sporting events. |
|
Grenada’s Carnival |
October |
|
Thanksgiving |
November |
|
Carriacou Sailing Series |
December |
|
Carriacou Parang The 30th Annual Carriacou Parang Festival season climaxes on the weekend of Friday 14 to Sunday 16 December 2007.
Festivities begin on Friday with a free open-air concert in the streets of Hillsborough featuring carol singing, cultural presentations and parang string bands, followed by house-to-house ""paranging"" all night. On Saturday night enjoy live
performances from entertainers from around the world. |
|
Christmas Day |
|
Boxing Day |
|
|
.
