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Haiti’s Tabou Combo, Jamaica’s Jah Cure to Headline World Creole Music Festival

By: Caribbean Journal Staff - July 8, 2014

Above: Tabou Combo

By the Caribbean Journal staff

Haiti’s Tabou Combo and Jamaica’s Jah Cure are among the headliners for this year’s World Creole Music Festival in Dominica.

The festival, which will take place from Oct. 24 to 26, will be hosted at the Windsor Park Stadium in Roseau, Dominica.

Other acts include Puerto Rican merengue singer Elvis Crespo, who recently highlighted the St Kitts Music Festival, along with T-Vice and Destra and featuring a host of Zouk masters from Guadeloupe and Martinique.

The latter will include Franky Vincent and Harry Soundourayen.

This year will be the 18th edition of the festival, which is among the Caribbean’s leading musical events.

The festival was officially launched on June 25 by the Discover Dominica Authority under the theme “Creole Runs the Night.”

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