Welcome to Ryde Carnival

We look forward to seeing you all again in this coming summer for a feast of fun, music and Carnival.

Carnival Dates for 2012

Children's Carnival 10th August 2012

Main Carnival 11th August 2012

Illuminated Carnival 1st September 2012

Please vote for Ryde Carnival on The Great Exhibition 2012, this carnival is 124 years old this year.

Wouldn't it be nice to put Ryde and it's wonderful carnival on the map as part of The Great Exhibition 2012, which promotes all that is wonderful about this country not just for the British population, but for visitors to the UK and of course the Isle of Wight.

Ryde Carnival | The Great Exhibition 2012

www.thegreatexhibition2012.co.uk.

Greats of Great Britain - What do you think makes Britain Great? Is it Ryde Carnival cast your vote or create an entry today!

Photographs of our carnival troupe visiting, Sandown Illuminated, can now be viewed in our 2011 Gallery Page

Photographs from the Ryde Children's Parade, Ryde Main Carnival Parade and the Grand Finale Ryde Illuminated can now be viewed on our 2011 Gallery Page

Ryde Carnival now has an Archive of Photographs dating back from the very earliest days, currently we have two galleries online one of pre 1940s photographs and a Jim Charlo gallery of his Ryde Buccaneer drawings. Click here to view this Gallery

Through the months of summer, for the amusement and entertainment of ourselves and our guests, the Isle of Wight last year staged over twenty carnivals in towns and villages around the island. Details of this coming year's other carnivals can be found elsewhere on this site. The carnival season culminates with what we like to think of as the Ultimate Isle of Wight Carnival at Ryde, featuring over 2,000 performers from carnival clubs around the Isle of Wight . This is a sensory feast of sound, with musical influences from Rio Samba, Trinidad Steel Pan and Local bands. Movement in fabulous costumes with influences from Trinidad, Rio, Notting Hill, Venice, English Masquerade and Mardi Gras. Colour an experience like no other! Where, for a few hours, we can all forget who we are and what we do - and just party!

The Isle of Wight is a holidaymaker's dream, a jewel shimmering in the seas just south of England, a little bit of Heaven which can be easily attained, by simply stepping onto a ferry at one of the mainland ports of Portsmouth, Southampton or Lymington.

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This site is up dated on a regular basis. Please visit us again soon.

Last up date Friday 10th November 2011