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The Barbados Crop Over Hub Instagram account is dedicated to the island's biggest festival — Crop Over. Coverage spans costumes, band launches, fetes, soca music releases and full carnival action every season (typically June through August). Essential follow in the lead-up to Grand Kadooment and for visitors planning their first Crop Over. Follow at instagram.com/barbadoscropoverhub/.
Crop Over dates back to the 1780s, when it celebrated the end of the sugar cane harvest. It was suspended in the 1940s and revived in 1974. Today it runs from late May through the first Monday of August (Kadooment Day), making it one of the largest cultural festivals in the Caribbean.
The festival culminates in Grand Kadooment on the first Monday of August — a parade of costumed bands dancing through the streets of Bridgetown to the National Stadium. Kadooment Day is a public holiday in Barbados.
Bridgetown Market (Spring Garden), Soca Royale (top-soca competition), Pic-O-De-Crop (calypso monarch), Foreday Morning Jam (paint and powder parade), and dozens of fetes through July.
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