Drum Magazine Issue 4 | Page 102

100 Drum: ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE Crop Over, a five-week summer festival throughout July and August, is Barbados’ most popular and colourful festival. It’s origins can be traced back to the 1780’s, a time when Barbados was the world’s largest producer of sugar. At the end of the sugar season, there was always a huge celebration to mark the culmination of another successful sugar cane harvest - the Crop Over celebration. »