Goombay Festival is back to celebrate and preserve South Florida’s deep Bahamian roots

Community leaders hope a major celebration of South Florida’s deep Bahamian roots will help preserve the culture.

Founded in 1977, the Goombay Festival returns to Coconut Grove in early June to celebrate South Florida’s deep Bahamian roots and heritage.

For vonCarol Kinchens-Williams, she owes a lot to the Bahamian community. She said she was raised by Bahamians. As a young girl, she spent a lot of time in Coconut Grove, where her aunt owned a salon…

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