Haitian singer Emeline Michel will perform at the 25th edition of the International Festival of “Nuits d’Afrique” in Montreal alongside big names in world music such as the legendary Franco-Cameroonian saxophonist Manu Dibango.

The festival, which began on July 12 at the “Quartier des Spectacles” in
Montreal, will end on July 24.

The “Flanm” woman will no doubt set the stage on fire during her performance.

In addition to Manu Dibango and his Soul Makossa orchestra, the group Folklore Urbano
Orchestra and Madjo are among the distinguished guests of this important multicultural event in the Quebec metropolis.

Exhibitions of photos, paintings, sculptures and traditional clothing will be held during the event. Workshops dedicated to African tales and rhythms and even a village for children complete the list of activities planned during this ten-day period focused on the culture of the African continent and its diaspora.

On the other hand, the songwriter and singer Beethova Obas will be in Montreal in July for the promotion of “Future” her latest album announces the Haitian press in Quebec.

A group of artists living in Haiti will make the trip to Montreal to participate in the 5th edition of the Festival “Haiti en Folie” which will take place from July 22 to 24 outdoors at the Parc Lafontaine open-air theater and indoors at the Center Léonardo Da Vinci where Eve Ensler’s play “The Vagina Monologues” will be performed. A Haitian version of the very feminist play adapted in Creole “Pawòl Chouchoune” and directed by Florence Jean-Louis Dupuis. The actresses Huguette St-Fleur, Ange-Bellie Andou, Fabienne Colimon and Cinthia Jean-Louis of the Atelier Éclosion directed by Florence Jean-Louis Dupuis will provide the interpretation in two performances on July 24.

For his part, the young author and singer BIC from the Rap Movement Kreyòl will also perform at this festival.

On the cinematographic program, two films: “The gentle drift of a child of Petit-Goâve” a biographical work by director Pedro Ruiz on the life of the writer Dany Laferrière, Prix Médicis 2009 for his book “The Enigma of the Return” as well as “Exit 67” by Haitian director Jephté Bastien will be screened on this occasion

Music, dance, cinema, theater, crafts, gastronomy and many other activities planned for this young festival which aims to become the most important cultural meeting of the Haitian diaspora “Haiti en Folie” is an initiative of the Fabienne Foundation Colas.

In Haiti, this year “the summer will be dancing or it will not be”. Indeed the main Haitian musical groups established in the United States such as Carimi, T-Vice, Nu LOOK Harmonik, Disip, Zenglen, to name a few, are preparing to sweep over Port-au-Prince and Haiti where they will join groups established in the country such as Kreyòl La, Djakout, Mass Konpa, etc.

In Port-au-Prince first, it is the resumption this July 24 of the Festival of “Compass Music”. The 2010 edition had been canceled following the devastating earthquake of January 12, 2010 which had even more carried away its main initiator, the musical promoter Joubert Charles.

These groups will then animate the patronal festivals of Petit-Goâve (West), Les Cayes (South), Cap-Haitien (North) and Ouanaminthe (North-East).

Many balls in perspective therefore across the country in this summer season where a growing craze for trips to the provinces has been observed lately…

Another big event, the Kassav group will be in our walls for a superb evening this August 6th at the Parc Historique de la Canne-à-Sucre. The West Indians will share the podium with Carimi, one of the most popular Haitian music groups in the French departments of America, particularly in Guadeloupe, Martinique and Guyana…LPP / RK

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