Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lakou Mizik are a multi-generational Haitian collective that combine traditional Haitian styles like vodou, Rara, and compro with ...

Both shows are part of the 19th Annual Compas Haitian Festival, taking place May 19-May 23 throughout Miami. RAM is a mizik rasin group (a musical style created in Haiti in the 1970s when musicians ...

Lakou Mizik is a powerhouse collective of Haitian roots music (mizik rasin) with a soulful energy and a mix of styles that feels mystical and familiar at the same time. In the wake of Haiti’s ...

The group Bonga and the Vodou Drums of Haiti is led by the percussionist Gaston (Bonga) Jean-Baptiste. "This Haitian ensemble," writes Amanda Petrusich, "plays mizik rasin, a beguiling mix of ...

Haitian powerhouse collective Lakou Mizik returns to NYC fresh from their riveting, talked-about performance at Knoxville's Big Ears festival. The group blends Haitian roots music (mizik rasin) and ...

Haitian band Chouk Bwa Libète are a six-piece traditional Haitian roots band who play mizik rasin, a genre inspired by Haitian vodou rhythms.Their sponteneity and "no frills" approach to making music ...

Think of Gaston “Bonga” Jean-Baptiste as the Fela Kuti of Haitian percussion, and you may start to understand how much this artist means to mizik rasin, Haiti’s traditional roots music. The master ...

After the earthquake of January 2010 devastated Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince and much of its hinterland, Steeve Valcourt, a young singer-guitarist steeped in Haitian roots music, and his friend ...

On paper, a collaboration between the multi-generational Haitian band Lakou Mizik and Grammy-winning electronic musician Joseph Ray might be an unlikely coupling. Their forthcoming album, Leave The ...