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The Folk Fiesta is one of the Festival’s signature events and groups are encouraged to research their topics to ensure creative and authentic presentations.
This year the Fiesta will be divided into 2 categories:

  • Village Class for villages/community councils
  • Performing Class for organized and established performing companies.

The categories of competition will comprise the following:

  • Traditional Folk Song
    • African Song
  • Speech Band
  • Creative/Interpretative Folk
  • Tobago Folk Dance
  • Solo – Negro Spiritual
 
Superstitions and folk tales PDF Print E-mail

Les Coteaux has always taken part in the Tobago Heritage Festival. Since 1987 they have elected to portray the folk tales and superstitions associated with Tobago folklore.

Les Coteaux’s 2007 presentation of Folk Tales and Superstitions will include the playing of mixed folk songs, lighting of candles, burning of incense and the flashing of superstitious characters.  There will also

be an ancestral call and procession of characters with drummers and Tambrin music prior to the beginning of the production which encompasses all the elements of song, dance and drama.

The village production centers around many stories of Tobago mythical characters. Expect to meet personally, the Dowen, La Diablesse, the Soucouyant, Fairy Maid, Jack O Lantern, and their friends.

necromancy Staged presentations depict necromancer rites, revealing beliefs still very much alive today. The Les Coteaux Heritage production may be a chiller, but it attracts large crowds yearly.

The production takes place at the village football field on the outskirts. Local food, lots of it, is served for a small fee on the evening.
 
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