For a second year in a row, rara parades in Léogâne are officially banned due to insecurity. Still, bands continue performing ...
A Haitian band is returning to Portsmouth next week to help raise money for a school in Haiti, according to a community announcement. Kandjanwou Rara — one of the few Rara bands based in New England — ...
Haitian star Emeline Michel, who rose to global fame in the late ’80s with guitar-driven, socially conscious songs, tells why ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti(AP) — Compas, a beloved Haitian music and dance genre inspired by merengue and infused with percussion, made UNESCO’s cultural heritage list on Wednesday. The syncopated rhythm, ...
Every Tuesday night for 15 years now, lovers of Haitian culture gather under strobe lights at a Lower East Side rooftop lounge to dance to kompa music from a variety of DJs. But there is a lot more ...
From Rap Kreyòl Pioneer to Philanthropist, Izolan Uses His Platform to Support Haiti’s Most Vulnerable Jean Léonard Tout‑Puissant—better known as Izolan—is one of Haiti’s most influential hip-hop ...
Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, 600 Maryland Ave., S.W., Suite 2001, Washington ...
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