Stringband Music
String-Band were quite popular as the musical accompaniment for folk celebrations like quadrille and lancers, wakes, fêtes, and at Christmas caroling and serenading.
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All Saints’ Day & All Souls’ Day
All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day are annual Christian festivals held on the 1st and 2nd of November each year to honour the Christian Saints and celebrate the souls of the departed
Dancing of the Flags & Cake
Dancing of the Flag and Cakes is a unique marriage ritual common to Carriacou and Petite Martinique.
DJab DJab
DJab-DJab is Grenada’s most unique J’ouvert masquerade and for which it is well known. It derives from the Jab-Molassi Mas that dates to slavery…
Shortknee
Shortknee masqueraders, dressed in colourful baggy shirts, knee-length pantaloons, mirrored tunics, head coverings and face masks, menacingly stomp through the streets, chanting catchy refrains and throwing powder into the air
May Pole
Maypole is a folk dance once common in Grenada, deriving from the European celebration commemorating spring rites and fertility …
Bèlè / Belair
Bèlè or Belair is a bare-foot folk dance which resembles the historical European Lancers and Quadrille dances, and incorporates African elements that define it today
Shakespeare Mas
Shakespeare Mas is a unique Carnival masquerade to Carriacou, but derives from Grenada’s speech-mas tradition and stick fighting that illustrates Carriacou’s own history and culture in this Creole synthesis. The costume is a colourful shirt/tunic emblazoned with a black heart and mirrors over a white petticoat, face mask, long cape suspending from the head onto […]
Boat Building
Photo Credit: Daishell Bethel, 2012 A not uncommon sight in Carriacou and Petite Martinique are skeletal boat frames, like the one pictured here, along beaches, under trees, or in backyards. The islands’ famed boatbuilders craft these traditional vessels for fishing and carrying people and produce between the islands. The age-old craft of boat building remains a […]
Fishing Boats
The islands Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique are surrounded by the sea and fishing is an important resource and livelihood for fisher families
