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Philadelphia Caribbean Festival

THE 29th ANNUAL

PHILADELPHIA CARIBBEAN FESTIVAL

SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, 2015

 12:00pm – 8:00pm

The Great Plaza, Penn’s Landing

Columbus Blvd. and Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa

Come join us at Penn’s Landing for Family Fun, Food and Activities!
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Edited from the Facebook page of the Philadelphia Caribbean Festival

The region's premiere Caribbean music and culture event returns for its 27th year. This year will feature reggae and will be a rich and vivid celebration of 14 Caribbean islands.

We invite you to enjoy wholesome family fun with a line up of reggae, roots international beat, hip-hop and gospel, poetry, island skits and creative on-stage dances, steel band; complemented by a marketplace of Caribbean fashions, souvenirs, arts and craft.

Additionally, a “tings” Caribbean workshop; and a children’s corner, including an Afro-Caribbean children’s village enactment and maypole dancing.

Vendors sell jerk chicken and rice/peas, curried goat/chicken, codfish cakes, escovitched fish and “festival” bakes, roti, Caribbean slaw.

As part of PECO's Multicultural Series, the event is held on Penns Landing's River Stage, one of Philadelphia's most beautiful music venues, and is FREE!

We'll see you there - make sure to bring all your friends!
Penn's Landing: Practical information. SJ Dodgson 2013 v7n2 p0812

Penn's Landing is on the Delaware River waterfront. Looking at the river, on your left the Benjamin Franklin Bridge to Camden NJ looms large, ahead of you across the river is the New Jersey Aquarium and the Riversharks ball park, and down the river are assorted battle ships and container ships. Philadelphia-Camden is a major US port, something like 80% of all cocoa beans imported into the US come through this port.

This means it is easy to get to from anywhere. Parking lots, metered parking everywhere. If you want to walk a little west and a little south, you can park free on the streets.

From Philadelphia City Hall at Broad (14th St) and Market: walk east 14 blocks (1.4 miles) to Front (1st St).

From Greyhound Bus Terminal and Septa Market St East Terminal at 11th and Market: walk 1.1 miles to Penn's Landing.

From PATCO stop at 8th and Market (this is how I get to Penn's Landing): walk 8 blocks east on Market St (0.8 miles).

From New York City: catch Greyhound at 34th St Station to Philadelphia. Or NJ Transit train to Trenton, then Septa train from Trenton to Market St East.

From DC: Greyhound at Pennsylvania Station, which is one block from the Capitol.

Penn's Landing has clean public toilets, so you can drink lots of water and dance and hang out until darkness envelops the night and folds the tents. One love! And you had better believe you will hear Bob Marley songs. You are going to be hanging out with a lot of Jamaicans.

I took these pictures during the 2011 festival.
The sound on the video below is really horrible, so turn the sound off. But the video, from 2008, is good to look at, and captures the energy of the festival!