The annual Cambridge Carnival

Caribbean Carnival

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 International festival uses the Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago

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  model to bring together Cambridge

Cambridge

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’s diverse community for a spectacular annual costume

Costume

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 parade and celebration. This year’s festival features five entertainment zones in Kendall Square

Kendall Square

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: two live music stages, KidsFest zone, and two DJ zones. The Cambridge Carnival has come a long way since 1992 from a small street fair at University Park, to now one of the most spectacular events in the Greater Boston area. Cambridge Carnival is one of twenty-four North America

North America

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n Caribbean-style Carnivals that Carnival followers seek out. It is not only an event that the diverse Cambridge community can be proud of; it also recognized internationally and has attracted bus-loads of out-of-towners from as far a field as New England

New England

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, Baltimore

Baltimore

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, New York

New York

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, and Maine

Maine

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, as well as visitors from overseas. The event attracts more than 100,000 people.