{"id":45207,"date":"2013-12-19T07:47:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T12:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=45207"},"modified":"2014-01-02T10:32:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T15:32:24","slug":"junkanoo-tickets-available-for-2013-2014-parades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/12\/junkanoo-tickets-available-for-2013-2014-parades","title":{"rendered":"Junkanoo Tickets Available for 2013-2014  Parades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40863 alignnone\" title=\"junkanoo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/junkanoo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/junkanoo.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/junkanoo-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/junkanoo-250x187.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s that time of year again&#8230; and the excitement level is rising.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re talking about Junkanoo in The Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>Junkanoo is an expression of Bahamian art and culture. Large groups parade along Bay Street in downtown Nassau with elaborate costumes &amp; floats, with participants dancing or playing goatskin drums, horns, bells, or whistles, as thousands watch and dance along.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boxing Day Junkanoo Parade: Nassau &amp; Paradise Island<\/strong><br \/>\nThursday, December 26, 2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Year&#8217;s Day Junkanoo Parade: Nassau &amp; Paradise Island<\/strong><br \/>\nWednesday, January 1, 2014<\/p>\n<p>Tickets available at online <a href=\"https:\/\/junkanootix.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> or at:<\/p>\n<p>The Kendal G.L Isaacs Gymnasium<br \/>\nThompson Boulevard<br \/>\nNassau, The Bahamas<br \/>\nPhone: (242) 698-6849 or (242) 698-5849<\/p>\n<h2>More About Junkanoo<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o2D2Ef1LfMk\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Junkanoo is a magnificent celebration of Bahamian art &amp; culture.\u00a0 It is celebrated in two spectacular parades on Boxing Day, December 26, and New Year\u2019s day, January 1 of each year, from 1:00am to about 9:00am on Bay Street in downtown Nassau.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Breath-taking costumes made from cardboard, wire, and finely cut crepe paper, are paraded to the unique sounds of pulsating goatskin drums, cowbells, horns, and whistles. The festival attracts large crowds of Bahamians and visitors, and has become a spectacle of colour and celebration. For Bahamians, it is the highpoint of the season: eight exhilarating hours in the early morning, when the nation&#8217;s main street is transformed into a sea of sight and sound that amazes, astounds, and enthralls all who view it.<\/p>\n<p>Junkanoo parades are also held in most of the Family Islands of the Bahamas, but do not approach the elaborate scale of the parade in Nassau. Junkanoo is a unique cultural phenomenon that is a &#8216;must&#8217; activity for everyone in the Bahamas at Christmas time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tickets for the 2013-2014 Junkanoo Parades are available online, or at the Kendal G.L Isaacs Gymnasium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":40863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[26,104,116],"class_list":["post-45207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-arts","tag-culture","tag-junkanoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}