Barbados Events

Annual Events

Address: Holders House, St. James, Barbados Category: Fair / Festival - Performing Arts Dates: March 14 - April 8, 2009 User rating:      (Rate It!)    |    Add to a Suitcase

The elegant, historic Holders House in St. James Parish offers an annual two-week performing arts season that regularly earns raves from critics and audience alike. Every year the program is different, but may include classical or jazz concerts, opera performances, theater and comedy shows, even acrobats and circus...

Address: Bay Gardens, Oistins Category: Fair / Festival - Arts / Crafts Dates: April 11 - April 19, 2009 User rating:      (Rate It!)    |    Add to a Suitcase

This rollicking, three-day festival celebrates the Barbados fishing industry. Among the events are exciting competitions in fish boning and frying, road tennis, greased pole climbing and boating. The street fair features local arts and crafts stalls, heaps of food (fried fish, fish cakes and Banks beer, mostly!), and...

Address: Various venues, Barbados Category: Fair / Festival - Cultural Dates: June 28 - August 15, 2009 User rating:      (Rate It!)    |    Add to a Suitcase

This five-week festival encompasses the entire island. In the 1780s, there was always a celebration at the end of the sugar harvest – called the Crop Over celebration. The festival was cancelled in the 1940s when the sugar industry declined but was revived in 1974 and has been an annual (and much anticipated) event...

Address: Various venues, Holetown Dates: February 14 - February 21, 2010 User rating:      (Rate It!)    |    Add to a Suitcase

This week-long festival, held in mid-February, celebrates the first settlement of Barbados in 1627. A lively street fair, history lectures, a parade, concerts and special sporting events are all part of the celebration. Admission to the street fair is free; some events (such as some of the concerts, the Queen of the...

Address: Barbados Turf Club – Garrison Savannah, Bridgetown Dates: March 6, 2010 User rating:      (Rate It!)    |    Add to a Suitcase

Sponsored by Sandy Lane Resort and the Barbados Turf Club, this thoroughbred race is considered to be the most prestigious in the Caribbean. It's also among the top few annual events on the Barbados social calendar. Run since 1982, the race is as much a chance for the upper echelons of society to show off their finery...