It is said that the slaves in Nassau's Fox Hill heard about their freedom a week after everyone else, explaining the village's extravagant Emancipation Day Celebrations. Join in with the limbo dancing, see parading calypso bands and pulsate to reggae.
The famous Bahamian Junkanoo festival is similar to costumed parades at carnival. Participants clad in paper costumes compete against each other in groups of 200 to 400 to pulsating music. Junkanoo is a combination of reggae and calypso unique to the island.
No Caribbean celebration would be complete without food, and the Emancipation festival luncheon is one of the biggest events during the four days of revelry. Don't miss the the all-important beauty queen contest.
Emancipation festivities culminate on Fox Hill Day, the day that the community recognises the freedom granted to their ancestors in 1834, making this the oldest event in the Bahamas.
No Caribbean celebration would be complete without food, and the Emancipation festival luncheon is one of the biggest events during the four days of revelry. Don't miss the the all-important beauty queen contest.
Emancipation festivities culminate on Fox Hill Day, the day that the community recognises the freedom granted to their ancestors in 1834, making this the oldest event in the Bahamas.
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