CARNAVAL DE JACMEL

Haiti's carnival festivities take place from Friday to Tuesday of Ashes, but at Jacmel they are duplicated by a national carnival that takes place last weekend. At this week of bamboo, it is necessary to add all the dieves between January 6 (the Kings) and the beginning of official rejoicing, with Sunday outflows giving the musical groups the opportunity to make their new Merengue known.

The Jacmelo carnival is mainly due to the good spirit of the child. The musical atmosphere is assured by two groups, rivals properly: The Invincible, supported by the inhabitants of the Bel-Air bourgeois district, and the Jouvenceaux, a jazz from the bottom of the city. The orchestras, jused on tanks, train hundreds of fanatics who are struggling in a joyful happiity.

Other tanks are also party: traditional, such as that of the city hall carrying Queen, or cyclical, such as that of the UN in February 1998.

The color, which is so lacking in the capital of the capital, is here omnipresent. Masks of papier mâché have nothing to do with the poor plastic masks of our European fatty mardis. Some disguise is actually an actor's costume. Those who wear them do not just enjoy the gallery through their gesticulations, they play the role of well-known characters of the local public and are engaged in the street at mini-performances.

Among the most famous are the Charles Oscar, a commanding officer who bullied the population at the beginning of the century; the wandering Jew, with his puffing pants, his long beard and always flanked by a soldier; the strings of the strings, bearing cagail and the body coated with tallow; the toad, performing acrobatics, in balance on two pieces of wood held by its nodes.

There are many more, new appearing each year, out of the imagination of the different bands or the craftsmen who make the masks.

A few years ago, the parade took place in all neighborhoods and each of them was entitled to his little animation. In recent years, we have concentrated everything on Baranquilla Avenue, which is lined with stands - stands - for the occasion. The rest of the city finds itself as out of the carnival and the impression of widespread leakage has diminished.

The theme of the 2018 edition was "K-naval chanjman:" It's all the ladanese mouths! " (carnival of change: everyone's here).