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Roseau, Dominica: — Less than a week after the official launch of the annual World Creole Music Festival, the Dominica Festivals Committee, the producer, is preparing to fully roll out its event management plan for the staging of the event which is scheduled to be held from October 28-30 at the Windsor Park Stadium in Roseau, the capital of Dominica.<\/p>\n
The festival which is now in its 15th YEAR, will this week begin to focus on areas such as media relations, waste management, venue design and operational procedures, marketing and promotional activities.<\/p>\n
According to Natalie Clarke-Meade, the DFC Events Director, this week is expected to be a busy week for the events management team with lots of attention to be paid in putting the core team together, finalizing contracts with major service e providers and ensuring that the events plan is in place to begin major operational and organizational work for this year\u2019s festival.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis week we hope to be in full gear and will be rolling out our event\u2019s management plan\u201d, says Clarke-Meade. \u201cAfter a very successful media launch last week, we cannot now drop the ball. Our hope is to use the coming weeks to bring our core team together and to ensure that all the main players involved in the planning of this major event understand their roles and functions as of now\u201d, Mrs. Meade explains.<\/p>\n
The 15th annual World Creole Music festival is being planned and produced by the Dominica Festivals Committee, a body responsible to the Discover Dominica Authority. The WCMF is a three night music and cultural event produced by the DFC to expose all forms of indigenous popular music of the Creole speaking world including Cadence-lypso, Zouk, Kompas, bouyon, as well as other genres of Caribbean and African music such as calypso, Soca, Reggae\/dance hall and African rhythms influenced by or made popular among Creole speaking in the Americas.<\/p>\n
The WCMF has attracted all of the top artistes and groups from among the Creole speaking world as well as leading acts in reggae and calypso music in its 14th previous edition. The main headiners for this year\u2019s festival include Haitian Kompas band CARIMI; Ali Campbell- the legendary voice of UB40; veteran reggae band, THIRD World; Jean-Phillip Martelley (of Kassav fame) and his Band, Jeff Joseph and Gramacks\/New Generation Band, Reggae superstar Gyptian; a galaxy of Zouk stars from the French West indies; along with local acts WCK, Swinging Stars, Triple Kay and Midnight Groovers.<\/p>\n
The main sponsors for this year\u2019s festival are the Government of Dominica, presenting corporate sponsor, Digicel, along with a number of other corporate sponsors and partners including, the Dominica Brewery and Beverages, Alliance Francaise, Tropical Shipping, COURTS Dominica, Waitukubuli National Trail, and Josephine Gabrie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roseau, Dominica: — Less than a week after the official launch of the annual World Creole Music Festival, the Dominica Festivals Committee, the producer, is preparing to fully roll out its event management plan for the staging of the event…","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":40120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n