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Crop Over; Observed by: Barbados: Type: Cultural: Significance: End of annual harvest: Celebrations: Processions, music, dancing, and the use of masquerade: Date: First Monday in August Dates below are for Kadooment: 2024 date: August 5 () 2025 date: August 4 () 2026 date: August 3 () 2027 date: August 2 () Frequency: Annual
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The crop over festival celebrates the end of the sugarcane harvest, and is inaugurated by the ritual delivery of the last of the harvest on a cart pulled by mules. The champion sugarcane workers are crowned King and Queen for the event. [23] In addition to crop over, music plays an important role in many other Barbadian holidays and festivals.
Armstrong had begun performing in local calypso competitions in 1983, and was the youngest finalist in the Pic-O-De-Crop Calypso Monarch competition. [1] Alison Hinds joined as co-vocalist in 1987 while Square One was performing at the graduation ceremony of the Christ Church Foundation School Alison's alma mater, and the band took the name ...
Dankdag voor Gewas en Arbeid: Netherlands, every first Wednesday of November; Thanksgiving Day for crop and labor Dożynki : Poland / Dazhynki : Belarus [ 4 ] / Dožínky, Obžinky : Czech Republic / Обжинки ( Obzhynky or Obzhynky ): Ukraine / Обжинки ( Obzhynki ), Осенины ( Oseniny ) : Russia , a Slavic harvest festival ...
This is a list of years in Barbados. See also the timeline of Barbadian history . For only articles about years in Barbados that have been written, see Category:Years in Barbados .
A number of proposals have been mooted in the past to integrate Barbados into neighbouring countries or even the Canadian Confederation. To date all have failed, and one proposal led to deadly riots in 1876, [58] when Governor John Pope Hennessy tried to pressure Barbadian politicians to integrate more firmly into the Windward Islands. Governor ...