Join the Spree at Notting Hill Carnival 2010 Celebration

Event: Notting Hill Carnival

Dates: 29^th August to 30^th August 2010

Venue: Notting Hill, Notting Hill, London

Nearest Tube: Kensington Olympia Tube Station

Started as a personal affair of the Caribbean community, in the year 1966, this festival has the power to sway the crowd on its undulating Caribbean vibes. It is a thrilling and fun filled festival, taking place in Notting Hill in the month of August. While staying at one of the hotels in Kensington, prepare yourself to stamp the streets of London, with your feet during August.

Celebrations at the Festival

The Notting Hill Festival is probably the most popular street festival of London, with carousing dance, music and trumpeting going on right on the streets. This festival is celebrated in true Caribbean colors, with all the flowing apparels, dances and music coming from Caribbean tunes. As the past thirty seven years of tradition goes, there will be the steelbands and soundsystem playing in the carnival. This year too like previous years, you can expect to get the feasting and festooning with the soca and calypso musicians being joined in by people from all the corners of the world.

Course of the Parade:

The carnival usually winds from the Great Western Road and then goes along the Chepstow Road. It can be followed to the Westbourne Grove and Ladbroke Grove. The celebration will be a sheer Caribbean festivity with people from all the walks and all the age groups joining in.

History of Notting Hill Carnival:

Notting Hill Carnival was inspired by a revolutionary zeal, or so to say a vying for independence and recognition by the people neglected on the basis of color. Till 1950s, the “Blacks” were living in a diminutive state, coming together in halls they would play their cultural music and dance. But Rhaune Laslett, a famous social worker brought the courage to bring the steelbands and enjoy right on the streets of London.