Bouyon
The fast, drum-driven sound Dominica gave the Caribbean, and the artists running it right now.
Bouyon grew out of Dominica in the late 1980s, when the band WCK (Windward Caribbean Kulture) started mixing jing ping, cadence-lypso and electronic drums into something faster and harder. The name comes from the Creole word for a one-pot stew, everything in together. Today it’s the sound of Mas Domnik, which crowned its first ever Bouyon Road March in 2025, and of every fete from Roseau to Portsmouth.
