The 15th Annual World Creole Music Festival is but days away and according to Deputy Director of the Dominica Festival Commission Sobers Esprit, the buzz has been swelling at the DFC and around Dominica.
Espirit was addressing the media at the WCMF’s second press conference yesterday and relayed the excitement that is being felt throughout the month of October.
“For us it is a very important time, 15 more days before the staging of the 15th Annual World Creole Music Festival. So, really it is countdown time and we’re marching down to number 15. There’s been a lot of excitement at the DFC office and throughout Dominica and we anticipate between the 28th and 30th of October, 2011. Dominica will be hosting yet another festival highlighting our [indigenous music] as well as other World Music genres,” he said.
Espirit has also said that the WCMF has added value to heritage activities in October and Independence Celebrations and it presents a unique opportunity for Dominica to show the world what the country is all about.
“For us this is really an exciting time, we think that the festival is adding a lot of value to our Independence Celebrations which have already begun. It’s a time when we highlight our rich heritage and proclaim this cultural reservoir that we have in Dominica, because it’s important for us as a people to celebrate that,” he pointed out.
Meantime, DFC Events Coordinator Natalie Clarke-Meade has again urged the private sector to involve themselves in a big way in the WCMF, maintaining that there is a need for other corporate sponsors to join in and assist.
“This product that you are getting with 15 bands, 15 class acts in three nights is unbelievably cheap and we need the private sector to recognize that what we are bring to Dominica is a product; champagne with mauby pocket and we need to get some champagne money,” she said.
Hope we have people in place to take care of the garabage bins, before they overflow, and toilet attendence to control and avoid abuse.
Kocrio loves the spotlight.Go Kocrio go.
Boost that ego.
The people of this island should boycot the festival and leave it for the Chinese,Venezuelans and the Skerrit gangsters.They are the ones taking all the money and leaving us without.
Well I am coming to Dominica on the 25, through Nov 6 with five of my co-workers. I just hope we can purchase ticket because we can’t purchase any tickets online. I do not see any advertisement in any caribbean papers in New York.
true dont think they will make a major profit this year…the economy is way low and locals dont see it..
Its time for government to get their hands off entertainment and start developing the people. Get rid of the burden of the WCMF. sell the brand to a private entertainer. Stop wasting tax payers money.
Couldn’t agree more. Why do we have to subsidize this? If it’s private business profiting from it, let them pay for it.
privatize,brother this shi** would fall right through the cracks,and besides the government does get large returns from their investment,do not full your self’s,otherwise why would continue to invest in it,and do not tell me they are doing it just for the showcase
I agree with you, this is such a waste of money. You cannot be subsidizing an event that really brings nothing to the public purse for 15 years and very little to the private sector.
Who wants it let them organize it, government needs to back off from that thing, too much wastage.