CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS
Neighborhood Concert: Dja-rara

Kingsborough Community College
Thursday, April 17th, 2008 at 12:00 PM

Dja-rara

Generously supported by the New York City Council and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; and by the New York State Council on the Arts.

Additional support is provided by The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation.

Dja-rara
Dja-rara has taken an ancient music from the hills of Haiti and reinvented it on the streets of Brooklyn. Rehearsing in Crown Heights and leading as many as 8,000 people in thunderous processions through Prospect Park, the young musicians of Dja-rara have kept alive the tradition of Haitian rara—an acoustic “walking music“ that is part voodoo ritual, part carnival, and part grassroots protest. Rara served as a voice of the original slaves in their revolt against the French, as well as the voice of those struggling against dictatorships in Haiti. Today, the band is also a voice against discrimination and invisibility within the Haitian-American community.