Notting Hill Carnival 2011 -- Music Events -- Red Bull

Notting Hill Carnival 2011

Location: Notting Hill, London, England (Map this address )
Start: AUG 27, 2011 at 12:00 AM
End: AUG 29, 2011 at 11:59 PM
About: What started out as a local street festival for the West Indian community of Notting Hill way back in 1966, has grown to become the largest festival celebration of its kind anywhere in Europe. Attracting millions of people from around the globe, the Carnival is a true, full-bloodedCaribbean experience, with astonishing floats, steel drum bands, scores of massive sound systems, mind-blowing costumes and hundreds of stalls providing all the sights, sounds and smells of a truly remarkable international experience.

Traditionally the Notting Hill Carnival gets underway on the Saturday with the steel band competition, Sunday is Kids Day when the costume prizes are awarded and Bank Holiday Monday hosts the main parade. Beginning on Great Western Road, the procession winds its way along Chepstow Road, onto Westbourne Grove and then Ladbroke Grove. Every single vantage point is taken along the route as the streets are packed with over a million revellers soaking up the atmosphere. It's a one-of-a-kind, 20 mile long display ofvibrancy and culture that you won't want to miss out on.