The main
festival in Barbados is the summertime Crop Over, which reaches its climax on Kadooment Day when the festival monarchs are crowned. This is a great time to catch some of the island's famous calypso. There are plenty of other events to distract you from the beach as well. The tourist boards have full details.
The main public holidays celebrated throughout the Caribbean, during which virtually all shops and offices close, are:
January 1 New Year's Day
Good Friday
Easter Monday
May 1 Labour Day
Whit Monday
Dec 25 Christmas Day
Dec 26 Boxing Day
Barbados also celebrates Errol Barrow Day (January 21), National Heroes Day (April 28), Labour Day (May 1), Emancipation Day (August 1), Kadooment Day (first Mon in Aug) and Independence Day (November 30)
Festivals and events
January
Barbados Jazz Festival tel 246/429-2084
Barbados Windsurfing Championships tel 246/426-5837
Busta Cup Cricket Competition tel 246/426-5128
February
Holetown Festival tel 246/430-7300
March
Holder's classical music festival
Test cricket tel 246/426-5128
Oistins Fish Festival tel 246/428-6738
April
Congaline Street festival tel 246/424-0909
July-August
Crop Over festival
October
Barbados International Triathlon tel 246/435-7000
November
Caribbean Surfing Championship tel 246/435-6377
Festival of Creative Arts tel 246/424-0909
December
Barbados Road Race Serie
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