Haitian Compas Festival returns for the 20th year in Miami with a new venue but the same commitment to celebrating the best of Haitian popular music.

Patrick Delatour, the Minister of Culture, learned with deep sadness the news of the passing of Richard Duroseau at the age ...

As much as Afro-Cuban rhythms are a part of Miami's musical heritage, so is Haitian Compas music. The genre is credited to 1950s saxophonist Nemours Jean-Baptiste, who incorporated brass into a ...

Miami’s Haitian Compas Festival has endured it all through the years. It has bounced between venues, staved off competition, tried being a two-day event and has seen its celebrations dampen by ...

Chances are that if you live in Miami-Dade County, you have at one time or another heard the swirling, merengue-tinged rhythms emanating from homes in Caribbean neighborhoods or rising from strip ...

Since 1955, Haiti has offered the world a uniquely danceable and infectiously sexy music known as compas, konpa, or kompa. The Kreyol language has been standardized in written form since only 1979 ...

Celebrated Haitian group RAM embark on a U.S. Tour, kicking off with two Miami shows as part of the 19th Annual Compas Haitian Festival: Moca Cafe Lounge, 738 NE 125th St., Friday, May 19.

MIAMI – Thousands of fans of Haitian compas music, the up-tempo music driven by conga drums that has served as a link between scattered Haitian communities worldwide, will converge on Miami Satu ...

SAINT-MICHEL de L’ATTALAYE, Haiti – A compas band, playing the hypnotic, sultry rhythms of Haiti’s national dance music, greeted us at Port-au-Prince International Airport. Unlike many other styles of ...

160 young musicians are preparing to take the stage of the Nicosia Municipal Theatre this month from Cyprus and beyond. The occasion is the concert Bailando al Compás presented by Sistema Cyprus ...