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Crop Over and Junkanoo

Take part in Barbados Crop Over and Bahamian Junkanoo with a band or group chosen well, costumes and dues paid, shack nights and practices kept, the trip booked and Kadooment Day and Bay Street planned to the hour.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Crop Over and Junkanoo, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

What it installs.

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Area

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Projects

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Starter tasks

🌴 Caribbean Life & Diaspora

Crop Over and Junkanoo

Taking part in Barbados Crop Over and Bahamian Junkanoo: groups and costumes, the season's events, music, rehearsals and planning the trip.

  1. Crop Over and Junkanoo season map
  2. Choosing Crop Over, Junkanoo or both this year
  3. Full festival budget for the season
  4. Crop Over words and customs for newcomers
  5. Junkanoo roles and words explained
  6. Choosing a Kadooment band and section
  7. Joining a Junkanoo group as a member
  8. Flights and a bed in Barbados for Kadooment week
  9. Christmas trip to Nassau for Junkanoo
  10. Festival documents and emergency card
  11. Festival savings plan with monthly deposits
  12. Kadooment costume payment and collection tracker
  13. Shack nights rota for the Junkanoo build
  14. Weekly Junkanoo practice with your section
  15. Crop Over fete calendar and ticket watch
  16. Twelve-week road fitness for Kadooment and Bay Street
  17. Learning this season's Crop Over tunes
  18. Heat, hydration and late-night recovery routine
  19. Weekly check-in while the season is live
  20. Annual festival review and next season plan
  21. Costume, photo and memory archive
  22. Cowbell technique for a Junkanoo group
  23. Goatskin drum care and tuning by fire
  24. Playing in a Barbadian tuk band
  25. Crepe paper pasting at the shack
  26. Crop Over history from the cane fields to Kadooment
  27. Junkanoo history from Christmas holidays to Bay Street
  28. Calypso tents and the Pic-O-De-Crop finals
  29. Landship, Shaggy Bear and Mother Sally traditions
  30. Frontline or backline costume decision
  31. Deciding on Foreday Morning Jam
  32. Bleachers or the street for watching Junkanoo
  33. Costume fit and adjustments before Kadooment
  34. Getting around Barbados during Crop Over
  35. Drinks and pacing plan for Kadooment Day
  36. Night parade kit for Bay Street
  37. Passing on a costume or place you cannot use
  38. Opening weekend and the Delivery of the Last Canes
  39. Foreday Morning Jam night
  40. Bridgetown Market and Cohobblopot weekend
  41. Grand Kadooment Day on the road
  42. Boxing Day Junkanoo rush on Bay Street
  43. New Year's Day Junkanoo and the results
  44. Kiddies Kadooment and Junior Junkanoo with children
  45. First Crop Over from abroad
  46. Rushing Junkanoo for the first time from the diaspora
  47. Taking part over fifty or with a health condition
  48. Volunteering as a section leader or marshal
  49. Designing and building a Junkanoo lead piece
  50. Starting a scrap gang or small Junkanoo group

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Crop Over and Junkanoo season map

Crop Over builds through July to Grand Kadooment Day on the first Monday in August, while Junkanoo peaks with the Boxing Day and New Year's Day parades in Nassau, and both have months of launches, practices and competitions leading up to them. A single page showing both seasons, with the official dates checked rather than remembered, is what every later booking, saving and leave request hangs from.

First tasks

  • Find the official Crop Over calendar for this year and save the link
  • Note the Boxing Day and New Year's Day parade details from the Junkanoo organisers
  • Add band launch and group practice dates to the same page
  • Refresh the season map when the new official calendars come out @recurring(yearly)

Choosing Crop Over, Junkanoo or both this year

Doing both festivals in one year means a summer trip to Barbados and a Christmas in Nassau, two costume or membership bills and two blocks of leave. Deciding early which one you are committing to, and at what level, stops the year sliding into half-plans for both and a full experience of neither.

First tasks

  • List the rough cost and leave needed for each festival
  • Check family events and work peaks in July, August and December
  • Write down which festival you are doing and at what level
  • Revisit the choice before deposits open each year @recurring(yearly)

Full festival budget for the season

A costume or group fee is usually the smallest surprise: flights at peak season, accommodation, all-inclusive fete tickets, Foreday Morning powder and paint, bleacher seats, food and taxis add up quickly. A line-by-line budget built before any deposit is paid shows the true cost and how much needs saving each month.

First tasks

  • List every cost line for the festival you chose
  • Price each line from current listings or last year's spend
  • Divide the total by the months left to get a saving figure
  • Mark which lines could be cut if money runs short

Make it yours.

Install Crop Over and Junkanoo, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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