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Rara performances are often performed while marching, and are often accompanied by twirlers employing metal [[Baton (twirling)|baton]]s. Performances generally begin on [[Ash Wednesday]] and culminate at [[Easter Weekend]].
"The Rara festival mostis likely to have developed during the period of colonial slavery,. whenThere enslavedis Africansevidence that African and Afro-CreolesCreole slaves in the French colony of [[Saint-Domingue]] were said to paradeparaded with drums and instruments on Easter Sunday. There is also some evidence that troupes of [[Maroon (people)|maroons]] marched with drummers, horns, and singers, similarly to Rara."<ref>{{cite book|first1=John|last1=Shepherd|first2=David|last2=Horn|title=Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Forthcoming{{verificationVolume needed9, Genres: Caribbean and Latin America|dateyear=December 20112014|publisher=Bloomsbury|place=London|isbn=9781441141972|page=447}}</ref>
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