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Events, festivals, and venues: Caribbean scenes: dancehall, reggae, soca, kompa, zouk

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Bob Marley Museum (music)

The Bob Marley Museum is a museum in Kingston, Jamaica, at the house where Bob Marley lived and recorded from 1975 until his death in 1981.

Crop Over

Crop Over is Barbados' summer festival of music, masquerade, and culture, revived in 1974 from plantation harvest celebrations and culminating in the Grand Kadooment street parade in Bridgetown.

Dominica World Creole Music Festival

The World Creole Music Festival is an annual three-night music festival held at Windsor Park Sports Stadium in Roseau, Dominica, since 1997, showcasing bouyon, zouk, kompa, and reggae each October.

Haiti Kanaval

Haiti Kanaval, also known as Haitian Carnival or Kanaval, is Haiti's pre-Lenten carnival season of street celebrations culminating on Mardi Gras, traditionally held in Port-au-Prince, with a distinct papier-mâché carnival in Jacmel a week earlier.

Jamaica Festival Song Competition

The Jamaica Festival Song Competition is an annual song contest organized by the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission since 1966, held ahead of Independence Day on August 6.

Rebel Salute

Rebel Salute is an annual reggae festival in Jamaica, founded by singer Tony Rebel in 1994, known for its alcohol-free, meat-free, family-oriented character and preservation of roots reggae.

Reggae on the River

Reggae on the River is a three-day reggae and camping festival held each summer on the Eel River in Humboldt County, California, first held in 1984.

Rototom Sunsplash

Rototom Sunsplash is a reggae festival held every August in Benicàssim, Spain. Founded in Italy in 1994, it is considered the largest reggae culture festival in Europe.

Tastee Talent Contest

The Tastee Talent Contest, later the Tastee Talent Trail, was a free-entry talent competition held at Tastee's Patties in Cross Roads, Jamaica, from 1979 to 2013.

Tobago Carnival (festival)

Tobago Carnival is a masquerade festival on Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago, with a pre-Lenten carnival alongside Trinidad's and an October carnival launched by the Tobago House of Assembly in 2022.

World Clash

World Clash is an international sound system clash competition organized by Irish and Chin from 1998 to 2022, called the "Super Bowl" of sound clash.

Yaam, Berlin

YAAM (Young African Art Market) is a beach club and reggae, dancehall venue on the Spree riverbank in Friedrichshain, Berlin, founded in 1994 and run by Kult e.V.