Haynesville Drummers performing in Independence Square.
THE National Independence Festival of Creative Arts (NIFCA) 2017 was launched with a parade and showcase in The City yesterday.
A procession, made up of dancers, drummers and steel panists, left Queen’s Park around 4:30 p.m., made its way through a section of The City, and concluded at Independence Square, where members of the public were given a taste of NIFCA.
“We are here launching NIFCA 2017. As you know, every year we gather the best talent, we gather Barbadians from all walks of life, we get together and we display our talents and we strive in the pursuit of excellence.
“We have been doing this now for well over 40 years. This year we are launching it with this little procession through town so that we can tell everybody that its NIFCA time again,” Acting Chief Cultural Officer Allison Sealy-Smith told the Barbados Advocate.
At the cultural showcase, the Darryl Jordan Steel Pan group, dramatist Brandon Byer-Maloney, Multifarious Dancers, Yolanda Holder, Coleridge and Parry Choir, and the Pinelands Creative Workshop, delivered a variety of artistic pieces. (AH)