Junkyard Jouvert 2024
Named Best Party of 2023 by LA Weekly, LA's favorite Caribbean paint party returns on Friday June 21 for the wildest soca + afrobeats + dancehall + paint + powder + water experience the city has ever witnessed.
This time, we do stick to proper Trinidadian carnival traditions — we play Jouvert on the morning before the the city hits the streets for the annual carnival parade of bands on Hollywood boulevard.
Location: DTLA
DJs: Foreigner + more TBA
LA Weekly Article here: https://www.laweekly.com/las-best-parties-of-2023/
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June 21st, 2024
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With paint raining, ass shaking and booming music til the crack of dawn, Junkyard Jouvert is a party that has to be experienced to be believed.
The brainchild of the multi-talented Adam Cooper, who goes by his DJ name Foreigner, brings Jouvert — a paint-infused Soca music celebration that marks the start of Carnival — from his birthplace Trinidad and Tobago to his new home in LA.
“On the surface, Junkyard Jouvert is about providing LA with the wildest Caribbean paint party experience they could ever imagine,” Foreigner said. “Digging a little deeper, Junkyard Jouvert is about stripping away the material BS that makes people hold back at a party. At Junkyard Jouvert, your outfit doesn’t matter, your hairdo doesn’t matter, your dancing skills don’t matter, there’s no body shaming or judgment on whether you’re of Caribbean descent.”
Foreigner tells us, “Jouvert — with its roots of emancipation and Black liberation — is one of the vital organs of the ritual of Carnival. It is the best, rawest, most spiritually authentic context in which to present the joyful, rebellious, liberating energies that make Soca music so incredible.”
In 2023 we learned that between Junkyard Jouvert and Roadblock (another party Cooper throws with dancing on junk cars to emulate a Caribbean street fest) you haven’t truly partied until you’ve partied with Foreigner.
Find all where to party with Foreigner at instagram.com/foreignerrrrr