Join in on the Independence Day fun as Barbados celebrates with a colourful grand parade of pomp and ceremony at the Garrison Savannah, featuring the Barbados Defence Force, Barbados Regiment, police force, police band, cadets, Scouts, Girl Guides, and the Barbados Landship, among others.  The latter being the oldest indigenous organisation on the island, is a national treasure. The Landship demonstrates the predominantly African provenance of Barbadians and the animated ceremonial processions, and performances include the dancing and plaiting of the maypole. The dancing of the maypole is a traditional dance found all over northern Europe that dates back to the Middle Ages, with this version of English and Scottish provenance, a custom likely to have been continued by British Settlers in Barbados, along with amusing ’manoeuvres’, to the command of the ‘captain’.  The sights and sounds of a happy cultural outing to celebrate with Barbadians will be a memorable morning.