Goombay Festival Returns to Coconut Grove for 32nd Celebration

The “Miami/Bahamas Goombay Festival” is celebrating its 32nd anniversary on Saturday June 7, 2008. The festival is a single day action packed extravaganza with pre-event festivities attracting thousands of people. Today over 300 vendors travel from near and far to share the experience by expressing their culture through arts/crafts, food, & music.

The nation’s largest black heritage festival celebrates the historical and cultural impact of the first black settlers to arrive in South Florida: the craftsmen and laborers from the nearby Bahamas who came to Miami in the early 1800’s to build the Peacock Inn; Coconut Grove’s first hotel. As a result, in 1976, community activists became dedicated to commemorating the early roots of Coconut Grove through arts, culture, heritage, and music. They sought to preserve and perpetuate the history and culture through celebration of a Bahamian-style festival. The first weekend in June each year honors the legacy of the Miami/Bahamian culture that has become what we know today as the Miami/Bahamas Goombay Festival.

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