August 3rd

Grand Kadooment Day celebrates the end of Crop Over, where Masquerade Bands make their way to the Mighty Grynner Highway with revelers dressed in sequin costumes decorated with colorful feathers, jewels and bright accents; dancing behind music trucks and moving bars. It is Barbados’ carnival at which approximately 15000 revelers parade through the streets of St. Michael. The parade of colour and splendor starts at the National Stadium and pulsates to the soca and calypso hits through the streets to the Mighty Grynner Highway. Culturally, Grand Kadooment sustains the art-form of masquerading in Barbados, with the key components being costume design and construction