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Renette Desir & friends performing on stage

Music school Dessaix Baptiste in Jacmel

New page added to haiti photos

The new page will feature Haitian artists performing live in Haiti and abroad. In the near future will also do stories on painters, professional dancers ect . If you are a performing artist and have an upcoming show , shoot me an email for rates , I will immortalize your performance the proper way that is . pdougepictures[at] msn.com

FESTIVAL OF CHOIRS AT THE SAINTE TRINITE CATHEDRAL

In may 2006, the Sacre’-coeur/ Saint Louis choir took the initiative to organize for the first time in Port-Au-prince a festival of choirs to celebrate their tenth anniversary. The festival brought together 5 choirs [to which the Sacre’- Coeur brass band also participated.]

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First Haitian Opera

Well known Haitian writer Rassoul Labuchin, Author of a number of scenarios and film wrote the libretto for the first Haitian opera entitled Le Mariage Linglinsou which was presented to the public last june in Port-au-prince Haiti . The opera is a love story about a mother who loses her son to Haiti’s violence. Opera is not new to Haiti, in the eighteenth century classical music was very popular and concert were held often.