Caribbean Reggae Fever is a live music event featuring bands, solo artists, DJ sets, food and stalls from local vendors staged in a city centre location, outside the Transport Museum in Millennium Place.
The Windrush generation (1948-1971) has enriched Coventry’s multicultural society, now embedded into the very foundation of our city. We have worked in collaboration with Coventry Caribbean Association and Arawak Community Trust to bring together an exciting event celebrating traditional Caribbean culture, lifestyle, food and music.
This event is for everyone – it provides an opportunity to newer generations and other cultures in the city to share and experience some Caribbean traditions and for the older generation to enjoy and showcase those traditions.
Numbers are strictly limited, please book in advance.
Produced by Coventry City of Culture in partnership with Coventry Caribbean Association and Arawak Community Trust. Supported by funding from National Lottery Community Fund.
The Reggae Fever Parade
This event starts with the procession leaving at 11am from the Caribbean Community Centre, Spon Street and the doors for the main site open at 11.30am. The procession will travel through the streets of the city centre with people dressed in traditional carnival costumes. Dancers will be accompanied by calypso and soca music by steel pan. Caribbean music was brought to Britain in the 50s & 60s during the main migration of the Windrush generation.
