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Carnivals and Festivals Worldwide

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So Yu Going To... CARNIVAL Magazine

• Carnivals of the Caribbean and Its People
• The Spirit of Crop Over
• My Carnival Journey - A Roots Experience
• Mah' fuh so! - Caribana Historical Perspective
• Mardi Gras - Myth and History
• TUCO on Calypso
• Merry Stars Metronome
• Origins of Rituals and Customs in the Trinidad Tobago Carnival
• The Truth About the Origins of the Crop Over Festivities - It Was An Old Plantation Festival

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Carnival by Location

Caribbean:

Anguilla
Antigua & Barbuda
Aruba
Bahamas
Barbados
Bermuda
British Virgin Islands
Cayman Islands
Cuba
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Haiti
Jamaica
Martinique
Montserrat
Netherlands Antilles
Puerto Rico
St. Kitts & Nevis
St. Lucia
St. Vincent & the Grenadines
Trinida & Tobago
Turks & Caicos Islands
U.S. Virgin Islands

North America:

Canada
United States
Mexico

Europe:

United Kingdom

Caribbean Carnival Connection

Welcome to Caribbean Carnival, Caribbean Carnival Mask to Mas, Carnival Pageantry at its best, Carnival Costumes Carnival Songs Carnival Parades. Within the Caribbean Carnival is a Festival of colors, which is transformed into costumes- `Mas', calypso, steel band Music, dance which attracts millions of people . An array of different ethnic foods and Caribbean Art." Caribbean Carnival the fastest growing Caribbean Cultural extravaganza in the world, attracting people of all ethnic origin. 

Caribbean Carnival is a dynamic blend of calypso music, Steel Pan rhythms, a sea of colors and sensuous movements, combined with the Caribbean people's flair for hospitality, entertainment and all around great fun. Carnival is an annual celebration of life celebrated in almost all major cities around the world. It is the artistic climax of an entire year of preparation for the artists when masses of gyrating bodies following a precise configuration, one which offers an irresistible temptation for the onlooker to join in and “jump up”.

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