Kadooment Day in Barbados
Kadooment Day in Barbados is held on August 5. Harvest Home or Crop Over celebrated on the first Monday of August. This event in the first decade of the month August is annual. 
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This is the largest national festival, when costumed groups fill the streets with music and dance, and the air is fragrant with the exotic smells of local cuisine. The holiday takes place in the context of Harvest Home or Crop Over, which is associated with the beginning of the harvest on sugar cane plantations during slavery. This cultural tradition began in 1687.
Many people use the terms 'Kadooment' and 'Crop Over' interchangeably but Crop Over is the name of the two-month-long festival. Kadooment is the name of the final day of Crop Over, the popular and colourful street parade.
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