Barbados on the Water Festival
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Barbados on the Water is a three-day Canadian
festival about the culture of Barbados
. The festival takes place at the Harbourfront Centre, in the city of Toronto, Ontario. Held during the middle of June the festival
is made up of events to give spectators a deeper understanding about the Caribbean
nation of Barbados through: music styles like Soca
& Calypso
music or even Barbadian influenced Jazz. Performances also are held by various dance groups, and samples of Barbadian cuisine is also sold.
The Barbados on the water festival was created as a way to celebrate the long established ties between the nations of Canada and Barbados. In the past the event also featured special guests; such as prominent Canadians of Barbadian-decent or prominent Canadians living, or operating businesses in Barbados.
Barbados on the Water festival also focuses heavily on other arts and literary aspect about Barbados.
The event is sponsored by several large corporate sponsors, the Barbados Tourism Authority, the Consulate General of Barbados and the National Cultural Foundation of Barbados.
In 2006, June has also started to be celebrated as "Canada Month" on the island of Barbados, various events during the month take place in Barbados involving Canadians living or permanently resident in Barbados. http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/latin-america/barbados/news/whatsnew-en.asp?id=7327&content_type=2
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
festival about the culture of Barbados
Barbados
Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is in length and as much as in width, amounting to . It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about east of the islands of Saint...
. The festival takes place at the Harbourfront Centre, in the city of Toronto, Ontario. Held during the middle of June the festival
Festival
A festival or gala is an event, usually and ordinarily staged by a local community, which centers on and celebrates some unique aspect of that community and the Festival....
is made up of events to give spectators a deeper understanding about the Caribbean
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
nation of Barbados through: music styles like Soca
Soca music
Soca is a style of music from Trinidad and Tobago. Soca is a musical development of traditional Trinidadian calypso, through loans from the 1960s onwards from predominantly black popular music....
& Calypso
Calypso music
Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago from African and European roots. The roots of the genre lay in the arrival of enslaved Africans, who, not being allowed to speak with each other, communicated through song...
music or even Barbadian influenced Jazz. Performances also are held by various dance groups, and samples of Barbadian cuisine is also sold.
The Barbados on the water festival was created as a way to celebrate the long established ties between the nations of Canada and Barbados. In the past the event also featured special guests; such as prominent Canadians of Barbadian-decent or prominent Canadians living, or operating businesses in Barbados.
Barbados on the Water festival also focuses heavily on other arts and literary aspect about Barbados.
The event is sponsored by several large corporate sponsors, the Barbados Tourism Authority, the Consulate General of Barbados and the National Cultural Foundation of Barbados.
In 2006, June has also started to be celebrated as "Canada Month" on the island of Barbados, various events during the month take place in Barbados involving Canadians living or permanently resident in Barbados. http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/latin-america/barbados/news/whatsnew-en.asp?id=7327&content_type=2