The 43rd (2010) Toronto Caribbean Carnival (Caribana) is the largest Caribbean festival in North America.
Caribana is a festival of Caribbean culture and traditions held each summer in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Annually, Caribana draws hundreds of thousands of tourists from around the globe to Toronto's lakeshore. Caribana is a Caribbean Carnival event, that has been billed as North America's largest street festival, frequented by over million visitors each year for the festival's final parade. Caribana was introduced to Canada by immigrants from Trinidad and Tobago. Much of the music associated with the event, such as steel pan, soca, calypso, etc. originated from Trinidad and Tobago. Caribana has expanded to include the carnival traditions and music of many Caribbean nations, notably reggae, which originated in Jamaica. Caribana reflects the Carnival events that take place in Trinidad and Tobago - see Trinidad Carnival. It is now the 3rd largest Caribbean festival in the world and the largest outside of the Caribbean itself. While Caribana runs for two week, the culmination of the Caribana event is the final weekend which is punctuated by the street Parade of Bands. This weekend traditionally coincides with the Ontario statutory holiday Civic Holiday. Like other Caribbean carnival events, Caribana attracts spectators, celebrities, musicians, and players from all over the world including North America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, and Asia to meet in Toronto from mid-July until the first week of August annually. There have been an increasing amount of foreign visitors from the United States due to the popularity of the event.
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