The Ministry of Tourism and Aviation of the Bahamas makes improvements to the Junkanoo Summer Festival
The event that will be held every Saturday from July 7 to August 4 will highlight the culture of the paradisiacal Caribbean destination
This year the Junkanoo Summer Festival (JSF) will have different themes every Saturday:
On July 7, the Goombay (form of Bahamian music) will be celebrated with Goombay dancers, fire dancers, limbo dancers, the Obeah Man, Grammy and the dancers.
On July 14, Le Cabaret and Jazz will celebrate the period when Las Vegas style led entertainment in The Bahamas Islands in the 1970s.
On July 21, the Festival will dress up in Nostalgia with the return to the era of the nightclubs of the 70s and 80s in The Islands of The Bahamas.
On July 28 there will be a celebration of Rake-and-scrape (Bahamian native music genre) with artists like Quadrille Dancers, The Island Woman, Lizzy Carry Basket, Brown Skin Gal, Go Home and Mind Baby, Kill the Roach, Better Woman than You and Shot Gun Wedding.
On August 4, the Festival will be dedicated to celebrating the old and new traditions of Junkanoo.
Throughout the summer of The Bahamas, there will be musical performances by Duke Smith; Abagail Charlow; Duke Errol Strachan; Chris Fox; Lady E; Bodine Johnson; Paul Hanna; Lassie Doe Boys; Soulful Groovers; John Chipman; Marvin Henfield; Ray Munnings; Pat Rolle; Jim Duncombe; Funky D; B.D. McKenzie; Jay Mitchell; Leon Taylor; Franklin Young; Nita Ellis; Sweet Emily and Peanuts Taylor, among others.
For young and young at heart, the Kiddie Corner will be improved this year with a lot of Bahamian games like hopscotch, hula hoop, baseball, hand ball, golf ladder, sack races, marbles, stilts, chariot races box, flight of kites and a magic show, just to name a few.
The daytime competitions will include sandwiches, watermelons, pineapples, toasted corn and contests such as eating cakes, crab hunting and breaking shells.
To ensure that all visitors can enjoy the Festival, free transportation to the Junkanoo Summer Festival will be provided through specially marked buses and taxis from each hotel in New Providence.
The Director of Events of the BMOTA, Charity Armbrister, said that the festival will be even more exciting this year.
"I am very excited about this year's renewed Junkanoo Summer Festival, a new vision for this important event that will explore a different theme every Saturday in July and the first Saturday in August, this year's Junkanoo Summer Festival will highlight a myriad of cultures. and Bahamian genres with a series of concerts and other entertaining activities that go from the 60's to the present, and of course, no JSF is complete without the participation of all groups A and B of the Junkanoo that this summer will be performing in a style rushed instead of a competition, we will also focus on a greater participation of visitors this year, "concluded Mr. Armbrister.