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Caribbean Carnival Events

Carnival History

The Manchester Caribbean Carnival is an annual festival that brings the Caribbean flavour and revelry for a weekend to Manchester through the sounds of Reggae, Calypso and Soca.

Events Programme

Our Carnival give you the opportunity to experience the best of Caribbean Culture and heritage with a packed programme for all ages built on thrilling LIVE stages and MEGA sounds systems mixing local artists and surprise superstar show stoppers.

Carnival Troupes

We’ll make sure there’s a blaze of colour is waiting for you and ready to dance at the carnival’s cultural home of Alexandra Park.

Our Sponsors

Our sponsors help make the carnival great. If you would like the opportunity to reach out to 1000s of people while associating your business with a fantastic community event, contact us.

Mas Bands

You can always expect to see visiting troupes at the carnival, but you’ll have to wait until 2021 to see them dance their way to the stage.

Traders

Carnival attracts a wide range of traders offering fantastical foods – Trinidadian ‘Roti’, and Guyanese ‘Pepper Pot’ are a must try – and spellbinding craft items and cultural dressings from all the islands. With over 70 stalls on offer there is something for all tastes.

Carnival Schedule

J'ouvert

Carnival Parade

Alexandra Park

J’ouvert

We’ll not be hosting the J’ouvert parade this carnival. However, you can still Jump-Up for Jouvert, make some noise and have fun, whilst still social distancing. Why not Make a video and show us what you can do and we’ll put it on our social media pages? If you’re interested in joining J’ouvert in 2021 contact us.

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Carnival Troupes

We’ll make sure there’s a blaze of colour is waiting for you and ready to dance at the carnival’s cultural home of Alexandra Park.

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Alexandra Park

As the carnival has been cancelled for 2020, our cultural home Alexandra Park, will not be hosting the event. However, the park will be still open so the public to enjoy the grade II listed environment. Feel free to take a stroll by visiting the Alexandra Park website for the latest information.

Don’t worry, we’ll be back next year with a bigger and better carnival where we can all enjoy the Caribbean sunshine safely in the park!

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THANK YOU

A big hearty THANK YOU goes out to all those people who helped make carnival a stunning success engaging over 15k revellers over two days of celebrations.

If you missed our amazing 2020 programme check out our highlights and make sure to ready for 2021, update coming soon.

Volunteers Needed

Visit the be a volunteer page to register on our volunteers programme.

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Mcr Caribbean Carnival

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Carnival History

Events Programme

Carnival Troupes

Our Sponsors

Mas Bands

Traders

J’ouvert

Carnival Troupes

Alexandra Park

THANK YOU

Volunteers Needed