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Thread #97282 Message #1911751
Posted By: Azizi
17-Dec-06 - 09:59 AM
Thread Name: Holidays & Other Special Days Customs
Subject: RE: Holidays & Other Special Days Customs
Here's an excerpt from a website that provides some information on Christmas in Grenada
"Grenada is a small warm tri-island nation in the Caribbean, consisting of the mainland Grenada, and two small islands, Carriacou and Petite Martinique.
During the Christmas season, the people concentrate on special food and drink - black fruit cake (baked and soaked, since October, with port wine and local Clarke's Court white rum), ham, rice and green pigeon peas, macaroni pie, baked stuff turkey; and locally made sorrel, ginger beer and the Clarke's Court white, dark, or red rum...
Parang is the popular type of music in Grenada during the Christmas season. Groups, not unlike the British waits, go around serenading in their neighborhoods. In Granada there is the added attraction of steel pans, guitars, tambourines, bottles and spoons; anything to make warm and friendly music. On the island of Carriacou, there are Parang contests. The groups are judged on the composition as well as their rendition of the songs..."