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Palo de Mayo is an Afro‑Caribbean festival, dance, and musical style from the Caribbean coast of Central America, especially the RAAS region of Nicaragua (centered on Bluefields), with related practices in Belize, the Bay Islands of Honduras, and Bocas del Toro in Panama. The music is upbeat and driving to accompany maypole celebrations in May. It blends African‑derived rhythms and call‑and‑response singing with European maypole customs introduced under British/Creole influence. Songs are often in Nicaraguan Creole English as well as Spanish, feature playful and often sensual lyrics, and are designed to keep dancers circling the “palo” (pole) with buoyant, syncopated grooves.