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Bacchanal Jamaica


Ocho Rios sees its share of excitement during carnival season in April with Bacchanal Jamaica hosting a mad soca bashment at Chukka Cove. Bacchanal hosts a series of events during Jamaica's carnival season, which runs from mid-January through Easter. Bacchanal Jamaica is composed of three Mas bands in the Trinidadian tradition--Oakridge, Revelers, and Raiders--which have promoted parties since carnival festivities began in Jamaica in 1989.


Rebel Salute


Rebel Salute is the most popular annual music event staged in St. Ann. It started out to commemorate the January 15 birthday of reggae icon Tony Rebel, who shares the same birthday as Martin Luther King Jr., as he's quick to point out. The first show was staged in 1994 in Mandeville, Manchester, and featured the late, great, Garnett Silk, among a host of other artists. The successful annual event was moved to the Port Kaiser Sports Club in St. Elizabeth in 2000 and later to Richmond Estate in St. Ann to capture a wider audience in 2012 when it was extended to two days and nights.


Calabash Literary Festival


Calabash Literary Festival is a fun, free event held the first weekend in June at Jakes in Treasure Beach that draws writers and attendees from across the Caribbean and African diaspora, as well as featuring some of Jamaica's own lyricists and authors.

Friday

7pm–8:30pm

COOKING WITH GAS

Diana McCaulay (Jamaica)

Nicole Dennis-Benn (Jamaica)


Caribbean Fashion Week

Jamaica's contribution has been central to a bourgeoning Caribbean fashion industry. Pulse Entertainment, founded by Kingsley Cooper and Hillary Phillips in 1980, started holding Caribbean Fashion Week (CFW) in 2001. CFW has become a wildly successful annual event, described by British Vogue as one of the most important fashion trends on the planet. Held during the first half of June, the week is filled with fashion shows, parties, more parties, and some of the world's most striking women clad in creative attire designed by a young cadre of imaginative talent.


Gungo Walk World Alternative Music & Arts Festival


Joy Mechanics in collaboration with The Edna Manley College presents the second annual staging of the Gungo Walk World-Alternative Music and Arts Festival. The festival is poised for August 24, 2013 at The Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts campus. It is set to promote and showcase artistes performing alternative, folk and experimental expressions of music in the Jamaican, Caribbean and International experience. It will attract visiting artistes as well as audiences who are interested in alternative music, world; ethnic music as well as our homegrown music forms.


Freshers Fete


Bruk out time for all the new and returning collegiates.


Caribbean Model Search


Pulse seeks the fresh face of the season in this beauty contest drawing supermodel hopefuls.


Portland Jerk Festival


The spot to be if you love mouth-watering, spicy-hot meat, seafood and anything else that can be rubbed with jerk seasoning, not to mention great performances by top dancehall and reggae acts.