Masters of Haiti’s acoustic twoubadou (troubadour) tradition, Ti-Coca and his band serve up a program that blends Mereng (Haiti’s cousin to the Dominican merengue), contra-dance, and Cuban influences.
Photo Credit: Benjamin Struelens
This Kennedy Center performance is free and open to the public. It begins at 6:00 pm on September 19th. Parking is available, but is not free. There is a free shuttle from the metro. For more information on how to get there, click here.
“I want Americans to have a real taste of Haiti. I mean, a taste of traditional culture, what rural life is like,” reflects Ti-Coca, “to have the essence of the real Haiti, not what people see in the media. I want to put the audience in a place of mind that’s magical, so they can forget all the worries they have and simply enjoy another culture they don’t know.”
Bring your kids – for those who experienced the band at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, you know that kids are welcome, and dancing is encouraged. If you go, come back to this post to comment and tell me how it went!
