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Houston Greek Festival; Houston International Festival (I-Fest) Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; Houston Marathon; Juneteenth; Shell Houston Open; Texas Renaissance Festival; Westheimer Street Festival (no longer held biannually since October 17, 2004; the replacement festival, WestFest Compressed, was held in October 2005)
Houston, Texas — usually the weekend around Fourth of July. For 2017, the Ultimate Mega Fest (UMF) kicks off the Houston Caribbean festival season with soca, reggae, chutney, and Latin music. Jersey City, New Jersey — the fourth Saturday of July from Lincoln Park (Jersey City) parade route leading to the Festival at Exchange Place.
the Caribbean, a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands The following lists events that happened during 2024 in the Caribbean . Sovereign states
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The idea of CARIFESTA was based on a similar event that took place in Puerto Rico in 1952. When Georgetown, Guyana hosted a Caribbean Writers and Artists Convention in 1966 and 1970, it encouraged President Forbes Burnham to host an arts festival on a grander scale, thus CARIFESTA was created and took place in 1972. Guyana had recently gained ...
There are numerous cultural events such as "band launch" fetes running in the lead up to the street parade on Carnival Monday and Tuesday. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Traditionally, the festival is associated with calypso music , developed by enslaved West and Central Africans in 17th century Trinidad; [ 5 ] [ 6 ] however, Soca music has begun to replace ...
The Third Horizon Film Festival was founded as the Third Horizon Caribbean Film Festival in 2016 by Barbados-born musician and journalist Jason Jeffers, London-based Trinidadian Jonathan Ali, a film festival programmer with experience at both the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival, as well as by Robert Sawyer and Keisha Rae Witherspoon.