30625: Minky: (article) Festival Mizik Jakmel: First International Music Festival (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Tequila Minsky <tminsky@ix.netcom.com>

The first Jacmel international music festival, set on the picturesque
Jacmel beachfront, offered participants a truly memorable music
experience in Haiti. The 2-day festival of diverse music styles
attracted more than 90,000 music fans.

It took big ideas and unimaginable logistics to pull this event
off. Visiting bands traveled from Sweden, Canada, the United States,
and Jamaica; three containers of all the sound and lighting equipment
were shipped by boat from Miami. Nothing of this scope and caliber has
ever been produced before in Haiti.

Not only was the intent of the festival to provide enrichment and
education through music but also to contribute to changing the image of
Haiti, encourage a global dialogue, stimulate the local economy, and be
an object lesson in what can be successfully organized there.

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