The Manchester Caribbean Carnival is an annual festival that brings the Caribbean flavour and revelry for a weekend to Manchester through the sounds of Reggae, Calypso and Soca as they are pumped across the cityscape from Alexandra Park via powerful sound systems.

The procession brings traffic to a halt with its infectious rhythms of song and dance that infuse the carnival procession as it makes its way through the crowds with steel bands, floats with DJs, and dance troupes with carnival queens and princesses, elaborate costumes and folklore characters.