Haiti Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===National holidays and festivals=== {{Further|Public holidays in Haiti}} The [[Haitian Carnival]] has been one of the most popular carnivals in the Caribbean. In 2010, the government decided to stage the event in a different city outside Port-au-Prince every year.<ref name="haitilibre.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-5009-haiti-culture-more-than-300-000-people-celebrated-the-carnival-2012-in-les-cayes.html |title=More than 300,000 people celebrated the Carnival 2012 in Les Cayes |publisher=Haitilibre.com |date=22 February 2012 |access-date=24 July 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://magazine.nd.edu/news/47009-global-doc-kanaval/ |title=Global Doc: Kanaval |last=DeGennaro |first= Vincent |date=19 March 2014 |access-date=23 November 2014}}</ref> The National Carnival follows the popular Jacmel Carnival, which takes place a week earlier in February or March.<ref name="haitilibre.com" /> [[Rara festival|Rara]] is a festival celebrated before [[Easter]]. The festival has generated a style of [[Carnival music]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Rara {{!}} Haitian Music|url=http://www.haitianmusic.net/haitian-folk-music/rara|website=Haitian Music|date=17 April 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://music.si.edu/story/rara-vodou-power-and-performance|title=Rara: Vodou, Power, and Performance|date=8 March 2016|website=Smithsonian Music|language=en|access-date=14 April 2020}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page