Data oficială a Festivalului mondial de muzică creol din Dominica 2020 a fost lansată

The Discover Dominica Authority (DDA), organizers of the World Creole Music Festival, the region’s greatest indigenous music festival, announces the official date for the 2020 edition of the festival, for October 23^rd, 24^th și 25^th , 2020, at its usual venue at the Windsor Park Sports Stadium, Roseau, Dominica’s capital.

22^nd edition of the Festival will be held one week earlier, to accommodate preparations for celebrating the country’s 42^nd anniversary of Independence on November 3, 2020.  This year, Festival patrons will have the opportunity to kick off Creole Week on the weekend prior to Creole Day and enjoy the various Creole celebrations in the week after the Festival.

WCMF which is part of the wider celebrations for dominica’s annual independence anniversary, and is preceded by a variety of cultural events, competition and fringe musical events, has become well known for attracting some of the region’s major acts in the creole musical genres like Cadence-lypso and Bouyon from Dominica, Zouk from the French Antilles, Compas from Haiti, as well as other genres with Caribbean and African roots, like Reggae and Dancehall from Jamaica, Soca and Calypso from Trinidad and other Caribbean islands and Afro-beat from the African continent.

As a result of the growing popularity of the festival and the demand for flights, accommodation and tickets for the festival period, visitors are especially encouraged to make early reservation for flights into the destination and for hotel rooms.