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Oistins Fish Festival

The Oistins Fish Festival is a folk festival that has taken place in Oistins, Barbados every Easter since 1967.

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The Oistins Fish Festival is a folk festival that has taken place in Oistins, Barbados every Easter since 1967.

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OverviewThe festival includes arts and crafts events, along with a greasy pole climbing competition.
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The Oistins Fish Festival is a folk festival that has taken place in Oistins, Barbados every Easter since 1967.

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The Oistins Fish Festival is a folk festival that has taken place in Oistins, Barbados every Easter since 1967. The purpose of the festival is to acknowledge the people involved in the fishing industry. The name is expected to change in the 2020s, as Toni Thorne, chairman of the festival's organising committee, decided to change the name. 1

Overview

The festival includes arts and crafts events, along with a greasy pole climbing competition. The food and drinks served include fish, seafood, beer, fish cakes, pudding, and souse. 1

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Oistins Fish Festival”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1

Oistins Fish Festival is annual folk festival in Oistins, Barbados, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2

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