Vintage Bahamas Junkanoo Full Moon Poster

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Vintage Bahamas Junkanoo Full Moon Poster “Fire Tuning Junkanoo Drums” from mid 1990’s was extremely popular with tourists and Bahamian students alike who said it reminded them of “home.”

This 15X15 poster harkens back to the day when goat skin drums were fire tuned at 3am in preparation for “rushing.”
Now you can own this piece of Vintage pop culture. Pristine high quality lithographs. Only 500 prints available. Artwork by the late great Eric “Pat” Patrick Cash, artist, producer, cultural historian and “I Junkakoo” philosopher. Truly a man ahead of his time

Own yours today!

The history of Junkanoo goes way back centuries ago to  the annual “Celebration of Life” held within Bahamian African Villages. Men, women and children would gather together from 3am to 10am to “rush” or march in beautiful costumes playing cowbells, blowing whistles and horns in time to the bellow and ring of fire-tuned goat skinned drums. Months or preparation, practice and rehearsal resulted in a cultural celebration that is still practised to this very day every year on Boxing Day and New Years.