Armed groups have increasingly controlled Haiti’s capital city of Port-au-Prince since 2021 and have destabilized its national government. Members of our CBM community desperately seek an end to the great human suffering that’s followed. This program seeks to share their voices.
Haitian Music for Change includes a performance of Incertitudes! and Haiti’s Lecture by Haitian composer Dickens Princivil, commissioned in 2023 by Crossing Borders Music following the composer’s kidnapping.
The program also includes Rudy Perrault’s “Exodus” string quartet which tells through music the story of Haitians forced to leave their homeland, “Strings for Change” by Gifrants which was written in response to the January 6th attack on the US Capitol, “Chrysallis devient papillon,” (“Chrysalis Becomes Butterfly”) a metaphor for positive transformation by Sabrina CD Jean Louis, plus hopeful music showing the incredible talents of Haiti’s next generation of musicians, and more.