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| Friday, January 22nd, 2016 – Scène Prestige (Hotel Karibe) – 1250 HTG | |||
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Oliver Jones Trio (Canada) |
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Oliver Jones is one of Canada finest musicians. He’s recorded scores of albums, and has received, in the course of a career that has lasted more than 70 years, most awards any public figure could only dream of, and not only in the musical field. His public career, that started when he was nine, intertwines with the history of his hometown Montreal, and interacts with the history of jazz, and with that of Oscar Peterson, his mentor, lifelong friend and influence.
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Thomas Siffling Trio (Germany) |
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Trumpet player Thomas Siffling is one of the pioneers of electronic Jazz, one of the rising stars of the young German Jazz scene. Invited to numerous concerts in Germany and abroad, his style can be described as a jazzy lounge sound crisscrossed by the echo of an incredible electronic radiance. The promise of an enjoyable and inspiring evening. “More than a concert, the audience are treated to a unique experience.” Thomas Siffling
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Haitian All Jazz Stars (Haiti/USA)
Featuring : Pauline Jean, Jean Caze, Obed Calvaire, Godwin Louis, Mushy Widmaier, Jonathan Michel |
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| Take the best musicians on the Haitian jazz scene, place them together on the stage for the opening night of the Xth PAPJAZZ, and you’ll have a hint of the surprise that the Port-au-Prince International Jazz Festival team has in store for you! Those 6 talented musicians teamed up under the name of Haitian All Jazz Stars will set the Parc Historique de la Canne à Sucre on fire. Not to be missed, for the first time together: the extraordinary sax player Godwin Louis , a graduate of the prestigious Thelonious Monk Institute for Jazz Performance, percussionist Obed Calvaire who has already recorded with Wynton Marsalis, trumpet player Jean Caze, who got the International Trumpet Guild Jazz Competition award in 2006, Mushy Widmaier, one of the best jazz pianists in the Caribbean, Johnathan Michel, the most sought after bass player on the Creole Jazz scene of New York, and Pauline Jean, whose contralto vocal range reflects all the creativity inherent to Creole Jazz. For this unique occasion, the Haitian All Jazz Stars invite Reginald Policard, the famous pianist known for his great sensitivity and versatility, John Bern Thomas, a young prodigy of the new Haitian generation & Joël Widmaier, the legendary singer and percussionist. | |||
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| Monday, January 25th 2016 – Scène Barbancourt (Université Quisqueya) | |||
| 6pm |
Oliver Jones (Canada) |
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Oliver Jones is one of Canada finest musicians. He’s recorded scores of albums, and has received, in the course of a career that has lasted more than 70 years, most awards any public figure could only dream of, and not only in the musical field. His public career, that started when he was nine, intertwines with the history of his hometown Montreal, and interacts with the history of jazz, and with that of Oscar Peterson, his mentor, lifelong friend and influence.
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Thomas Siffling Trio (Germany) |
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Trumpet player Thomas Siffling is one of the pioneers of electronic Jazz, one of the rising stars of the young German Jazz scene. Invited to numerous concerts in Germany and abroad, his style can be described as a jazzy lounge sound crisscrossed by the echo of an incredible electronic radiance. The promise of an enjoyable and inspiring evening. “More than a concert, the audience are treated to a unique experience.” Thomas Siffling
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Pauline Jean (Haïti/USA) |
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Haitian-American composer, arranger and vocalist Pauline Jean is a rising star who, with her distinct rich contralto, introduces her creativity and her culture into to day’s music scene.Pauline brings a new perspective to her music with an erudite blend of her Kreyòl roots and modern and classic jazz. Her exceptional and inventive interpretations make her an instant favorite with audiences of all ages. Pauline has performed extensively at prestigious venues and festivals worldwide.
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| After Hours Monday, January 25th 2016 – Scène Capital Carte (Presse Café) |
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| 8pm |
Challengers (Haïti) |
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Driven by a passion for jazz, seven musicians met at a “jazz combo” seminar in Port-au-Prince in 2010. They successfully performed together the “live” show at the end of the seminar. Since then, they’ve kept on playing jazz standards, pieces created by jazz masters as well as traditional Haitian tracks reworked in the style of Kreyol Jazz. Conscious of the scale of the challenge, those enthusiasts took the name: Challengers.
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| Tuesday, January 26th 2016 – Scène Barbancourt (Université Quisqueya) | |||
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Cor des Alpes Quartet (Switzerland) |
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Pascal Schaer is a passionate musician who only lives for creativity and musical experiences. His main tools are the command of improvisation, composition, groove, and of all the technical, acoustic and expressive possibilities of the alphorn, which he sometimes pairs with electronic effects. Born from his meeting with African percussionist Baba Konate and bass player Cyril Moulas, Pascal Schaer’s band creates an original and evolving world that encompasses both jazz and modern musics, and that springs from simple melodies and strong ideas.
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Desir & Fiorini (Belgium/Haiti) |
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Renette Désir a singer who needs no introduction: her album Yon Jou, Haïti un autre regard, Haiti cœur de femmes, Carifiesta…
Fabian Fiorini, a talented pianist: Aka Moon, Magik Malik… They started collaborating in 2013 in Belgium and performed then at the Festival d’Avignon in July 2015.
“The duo composed of Haitian singer Renette Désir and Belgian pianist Fabian Fiorini evokes in a very clever way the different musical traditions born from the historic trauma of the slave trade” – Stéphane Ollivier in Jazz Magazine
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Pie Grande (Mexico) |
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Pie Grande was formed in 2010 in Aguascalientes, Mexico. They’ve already recorded two albums, one of them live, and have also taken part to various international jazz festivals, in Jamaica and Indonesia among others, on top of touring Mexico regularly. Their style is a fusion of jazz harmonic roots with other popular urban rhythms such as funk and progressive rock, which accounts for the use of the trumpet in an otherwise traditional line-up: keyboards, guitar, bass guitar and drums.
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| After Hours Tuesday, January 26th 2016 – Scène Capital Carte (Yanvalou) |
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Agustin Moya (Chile) |
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Tenor saxophonist and Composer Agustin Moya is acknowledged as a key player in the Chilean Contemporary Jazz scene. He was born and raised in the city of Santiago de Chile. He has studied with David Liebman and George Garzone and already recorded 3 albums as a solo artist: Doble Viaje (2006), Infinito (2010), and Espacio Elástico (2012). All three were nominated to the Altazor Award. He gets his inspiration from Lester Young, Stan Getz and Sonny Rollins.
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| Wednesday, January 27th 2016 – Scène Fokal (Salle Fokal Unesco) | ||
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Jah Baba (Bénin) |
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Jah Baba is a devoted Africanist artist from Benin and Nigerian. He was introduced to music alongside his father, a Jazz artist well known in West African. True to its cultural heritage from which it takes its inspiration, Jah Baba offers a variation of Afro-Jazz with some strains of gospel. His album of 14 titles out in 2011 allowed him to be invited on several continents including to the USA where he gives a representation in the U.S. Congress. | |
| Wednesday, January 27th 2016 – Scène Barbancourt (Université Quisqueya) | |||
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Jeremie Jones & Tanbou Lakaye (Canada/Haiti) |
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Montreal-based, composer, sound artist and musician, Jeremie Jones plays upright and electric bass and has recorded more than 15 albums with different artists. Some of thoses albums where nominated for Canadian Juno awards and Best experimental album of the year. Featured in top charts and received good press reviews. Toured over 5oo shows in Canada, US, England, Ireland, Scotland, Poland, Slovakia, Hungria, France, Austria, Germany, Italy, Haiti. His new project Noordwiijk explores the intimate meeting point of acoustic and electronic music. At the PAPJAZZ, Jérémie is performing with 4 traditional drums directed by Jackson Saintil. |
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Agustin Moya (Chile) |
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Tenor saxophonist and Composer Agustin Moya is acknowledged as a key player in the Chilean Contemporary Jazz scene. He was born and raised in the city of Santiago de Chile. He has studied with David Liebman and George Garzone and already recorded 3 albums as a solo artist: Doble Viaje (2006), Infinito (2010), and Espacio Elástico (2012). All three were nominated to the Altazor Award. He gets his inspiration from Lester Young, Stan Getz and Sonny Rollins.
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John Bern Thomas feat. Godwin Louis (Haiti) |
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John Bern Thomas, a young drummer from Port-au-Prince, masters the different styles that make up the dynamic cultural patchwork of his region: from jazz to swing, from reggae to blues, from pop music to compa. He’s been immersed in music for his entire life, from his beginnings on stage when aged only eight, with his father, a drummer too, to his collaborations with American pianist Aaron Goldberg, Claude Carré and the creation of his own band, the John Bern Quintet.
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| After Hours Wednesday, January 27th 2016 – Scène Capital Carte (Yanvalou) |
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Désir & Fiorini (Haiti / Belgium) |
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Renette Désir a singer who needs no introduction: her album Yon Jou, Haïti un autre regard, Haiti cœur de femmes, Carifiesta…
Fabian Fiorini, a talented pianist: Aka Moon, Magik Malik… They started collaborating in 2013 in Belgium and performed then at the Festival d’Avignon in July 2015.
“The duo composed of Haitian singer Renette Désir and Belgian pianist Fabian Fiorini evokes in a very clever way the different musical traditions born from the historic trauma of the slave trade” – Stéphane Ollivier in Jazz Magazine
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| Thursday, January 28th 2016 – Scène Barbancourt (Université Quisqueya) | |||
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Yomira John (Panama) |
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Born in Panama City, singer Yomira John grew up in a musical world of boleros and salsa. Quite young, she got the Silvia Grasse award in the children’s category, and later sang with the choir or the National Music School of Panama and, as a solist, in the polyphonic choir Musica Viva. Then, she participated to many a Latin-American line-up and finally became Lead Vocalist in the world-famous Orchestra of Centroamericana de la papaya. |
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1688 Collective (Barbados) |
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The 1688 Collective is a unique Caribbean musical ensemble dedicated to the craft of instrumental performance. The group, the brainchild of Stefan Walcott, provides a space for young semi-professional musicians to continually develop their craft by engaging in Caribbean and other Afro-Diasporic musical forms. 1688 is made up of several ensembles, from a quintet to a full orchestra, whose hope is to be the constant driving force behind Caribbean instrumental performance, spreading this joy to the Caribbean and the wider world.
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Emeline Michel (Haiti) |
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She is the reigning Queen of Haitian Song: a captivating performer, versatile vocalist and one of the premier Haitian songwriters of her generation. She has recorded and appeared on concert stages throughout the Caribbean, Europe, and North & South America for over 20 years. Singing both in French and Haitian Creole, her nine albums, Douvanjou ka leve (May the Sun Rise), Pa gen manti nan sa (There’s No Doubt), Rhum & Flamme (Rum & Flame), Tout Mon Temps (All My Time), The Very Best, Ban’m pase (Let Me Pass), Cordes et Ame (Strings and Soul), Rasin Kreyol (Creole Roots), and Reine de Cour (Queen of Hearts) have catapulted her to international acclaim.
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| Thursday, January 28th 2016 – Scène Delta (Le Triomphe) – 1800 HTG | |||
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Chano Dominguez (Spain) |
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Chano Dominguez is one of the most sought after pianists on the Spanish music scene, particularly for Flamenco and jazz, given that he performs tangos, fandangos and other Spanish styles with a traditional jazz structure. He has already worked with such artists as Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Paco de Lucia, Joe Lovano, Herbie Hancock, Jack DeJohnette and Wynton Marsalis, and recorded several albums. His music has also been played by numerous first-class orchestras: The Orquesta National de España and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra.
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Omar Sosa & Erol Josué (Cuba/Haïti) |
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On the borders of ancestral and post-modernism, Omar Sosa & Erol Josué: a bridge between the minds of the Cuban Santeria and those of the Haitian voodoo, driven by the two most rooted and most visionary artists of the genre.
Born in Cuba in 1965, Omar Sosa was influenced both by classical music and by the African heritage present in Cuban music. Sosa’s music unites Africa with Latin Jazz and Hip Hop. It’s one of those rare artists whose talent for piano is close to that of Chick Corea or Chucho Valdes.
Ben Ratliff, New York Times Erol Josué is a complete Haitian artist, a magnetic and stereotype buster. Voodoo priest, actor and dancer, he is like the voodoo spirits that inhabit him, a strange telescoping of time and geographies.
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| After Hours Thursday, January 28th 2016 – Scène Capital Carte (Quartier Latin) |
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Pie Grande (Mexico) |
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Pie Grande was formed in 2010 in Aguascalientes, Mexico. They’ve already recorded two albums, one of them live, and have also taken part to various international jazz festivals, in Jamaica and Indonesia among others, on top of touring Mexico regularly. Their style is a fusion of jazz harmonic roots with other popular urban rhythms such as funk and progressive rock, which accounts for the use of the trumpet in an otherwise traditional line-up: keyboards, guitar, bass guitar and drums.
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| Friday, January 29th 2016 – Scène Digicel (Place Boyer) | ||
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Cor des Alpes Quartet (Switzerland) |
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Pascal Schaer is a passionate musician who only lives for creativity and musical experiences. His main tools are the command of improvisation, composition, groove, and of all the technical, acoustic and expressive possibilities of the alphorn, which he sometimes pairs with electronic effects. Born from his meeting with African percussionist Baba Konate and bass player Cyril Moulas, Pascal Schaer’s band creates an original and evolving world that encompasses both jazz and modern musics, and that springs from simple melodies and strong ideas. | |
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Project Chameleon (Haiti) |
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Project Chameleon was born in the Fall of 2015 under the leadership of Gerald Kébreau (bass) with Josué Alexis (piano) and Norman Iméran “Poupy” (drums). Beyond the pleasure of playing good music, the experience of these three musicians forms the harmony to which are added mix vocals and instruments of young Haitian musical talents. From their mastery of different musical trends, the Chameleon trio adapts its talents and repertoire to every emotion and musical encounters, with the ambition of different outcomes and a constant evolution.
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| Friday, January 29th 2016 – Institut Français en Haiti | |||
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Manu Codjia (France) |
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Manu Codjia is a committed musician with multiple musical universes. Over the course of time and musical collaborations, he’s broken away from the restrictions of jazz by exploring other influences like rock, blues, electro or reggae. Awarded the Guitar Django d’Or in 2007, he’s also nominated to the Jazz Victoires de la Musique. Manu Codjia’s electric style, alternately delicate or radiating, promises a truly astounding evening.
“I am a hunter for new sounds” – Manu Codjia in Liberation
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| After Hours Friday, January 29th 2016 – Scène Capital Carte (Quartier Latin) |
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Jael Auguste (Haiti) |
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Jael Armand Auguste is a classically trained double-bass player, whose musical career took him from playing with philharmonic orchestras in South Florida to exploring Voodoo rhythms in Haiti, his country of origin. Merging his two loves, Jael has created an original style that combines Haitian “Rasin” and folk acoustic music, in a fusion of Voodoo drumming and double-bass. His own compositions also take after Funk, Reggae and Blues, and present socially conscious lyrics.
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| Saturday, January 30th 2016 – Scène Prestige (Parc Historique de la Canne à Sucre) – 1250 HTG | |||
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Manu Codjia (France) |
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Manu Codjia is a committed musician with multiple musical universes. Over the course of time and musical collaborations, he’s broken away from the restrictions of jazz by exploring other influences like rock, blues, electro or reggae. Awarded the Guitar Django d’Or in 2007, he’s also nominated to the Jazz Victoires de la Musique. Manu Codjia’s electric style, alternately delicate or radiating, promises a truly astounding evening.
“I am a hunter for new sounds” – Manu Codjia in Liberation
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Wespè pou Ayiti (Caribbean) |
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“Wèspè pou Ayiti” is the story of an unlikely and awfully convincing encounter that expresses musically a strong feeling of solidarity and respect for the Haitian people (…) Created in 2011 in Saint Lucia (…), the “Wèspè pou Ayiti” project was imagined and carried out by three Caribbean musicians: Richard Payne, a pianist from Saint Lucia, Sonny Troupé, a Guadeloupian drummer, and Jean Caze, Haitian trumpeter (…). The result is exciting.
“I call for this groovy, original and festive creation to quickly gain support with “metropolitan” jazz festivals organizers. I can ensure them that they’ll meet instant success with their audiences, thanks to the lush and generous Afro-Caribbean music happily performed by this very close-knit band. A word to the wise…” -Pascal Anquetil
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Mario Canonge & Annick Tangorra |
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A duo which combines talents on original compositions as well as jazz standards, Latin Jazz, in a festive and communicative atmosphere. With Mario Canonge, a true virtuoso of the piano with extraordinary musical adaptations, Annick Tangorra singer of Italian origin who is now one of the most moving voices of jazz, Arnaud Dolmen on drums, and Zechariah Abraham on bass, everything comes together for a memorable evening. For Didier Lockwood “There is in the voice of Annick Tangorra suave lyricism blend content, carnal elegance and refined sensuality, probably linked to its Latin origins …”. |
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| After Hours Saturday, January 30th 2016 – Scène Capital Carte (Quartier Latin) |
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Sarah Jane (Haiti) |
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During the ten years she spent in Montreal and Bordeaux, Sarah Jane Rameau managed to blend into each of those musical worlds, thanks to her participation to various activities and concerts with numerous talented and renown artists. Back in her hometown, Sarah Jane is building her identity through her talents that brought her an architect’s diploma and through her unique voice. Thanks to a style that unites jazz and funk, Sarah Jane is a rising star of her generation, both in the Haitian and in the international musical community.
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Follow Jah (Haiti) |
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Performing together since 2001, the seventeen musicians that compose the marching-band Follow Jah usually perform in Petion-Ville for Carnival and other traditional and community occasions. Enjoying the support of the Caracoli Association, they are also involved in other activities like education through arts, stage and actions aimed at young audiences. Since 2012, Follow Jah provide evening entertainment during the Port-au-Prince International Jazz Festival.
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