During the Christmas and New Year holidays the local Garifuna community of Dangriga, Belize takes to the streets to enjoy the Jankunu and Charikanari dancers. The celebrations, dancing and drumming at this time of the year is one of those undiscovered secrets of Belize. The Wanaragua Jankunu Festival (also known as the John Canoe) sees masked and costumed dancers parading the streets and roaming from house to house accompanied by the beat of traditional drummers. Jankunu Dance Belize The costume

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Belize music project excavates 100 years of Belizean sound What does 100 years of music look like in Belize? NICH, in collaboration with BTB, MOE and others have captured and collected the history of music throughout the decades, along with a number of artifacts, recordings and performances that form a kind of Belizean songbook – and it’s one that makes you dance! Today they launched the Belize Music Project, an attempt at preserving our musical heritage for many more generations to come. Jules