Trinidad and Tobago Carnival
Carnaval de Trinidad y Tobago
annual event held in Trinidad and Tobago
Port of Spain · Trinidad and Tobago
🗓️ When?
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📍 Where?
- Town
- Port of Spain
- Country
- Trinidad and Tobago
- How precise?
- coordinate of the venue
This position is the town's, not the festival ground's.
ℹ️ Details
- Status
- unclear
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📖 Excerpt from the Wikipedia article
The Trinidad and Tobago Carnival is an annual event held on the Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday in Trinidad and Tobago. This event is well known for participants' colorful costumes and exuberant celebrations. There are numerous cultural events such as "band launch" fetes running in the lead up to the street parade on Carnival Monday and Tuesday. Traditionally, the festival is associated with calypso music, developed by Afro-Trinidadians in 17th century Trinidad; however, Soca music has begun to replace calypso as the more popular musical genre for Carnival. Costume, stick-fighting, limbo, and steelpan competitions are important components of the festival.
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