The West Kortright Centre hosted a benefit picnic for Haiti on Saturday, July 2, as its annual summer party. RAM, a world-famous mizik rasin band, performed at the gala. The 11-member combo plays weekly in Port-au-Prince, but has been in the States to perform at festivals in New York City, Chicago — and The WKC. Fea- turing vodou drumming, their sound brings to mind the pop music of western Africa with its call and response vocals, chiming guitars and layers of percussion. RAM melds riffs from The Clash with blues, funk, and large doses of Haitian compas and other Caribbean sounds.
Images were projected onto the side of The West Kortright Centre.
A singer from RAM performs.
Haitian performers added entertainment to the evening. July 7, 2011 O-Town Scene 9
