The World Creole Music Festival (WCMF) takes place every year in Roseau, the capital of Dominica, on the last weekend of October. The festival is part of the Kreyol Month calendar, a worldwide event that celebrates Creole culture in all its aspects.
The WCMF indeed honours all forms of Creole music, whether from the Caribbean, Africa or North America, and features a variety of musical styles from each region, such as zouk from the French West Indies, zarico from Louisiana, soukous from Congo, kompa from Haiti, and the cadence-lypso and bouyon from Dominica.
Nicknamed the festival that never sleeps because of its never-ending nights where music is king, the event brings together for three days and three nights the biggest names in Creole music, to the delight of enlightened amateurs and novices alike.