The third installment of Bahamas Junkanoo Carnival is here and is slated for the first weekend in May 2017. This year as in previous years the Music Masters competition will take center stage and the top musicians in the country will compete to see who has the top song for this carnival season under the theme “Hot Like Fire”.
This year 19 tracks have made it in to the semi finals and include familiar faces from years before including Sketch Carey and Batangy and new faces like Patrice Murrel and Thin Ice. This year’s field is wide and varied and includes songs that feature the traditional carnival sound to new fusion tracks that merge Junkanoo, Soca and EDM.