Archive for the ‘Haiti Music’ Category

Drury schedules prayer service for Haitian earthquake victims (The Springfield News-Leader)

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

Drury University has scheduled a prayer service for the victims of the Haitian earthquake at noon Wednesday in Stone Chapel, a university news release said.

French music stars mobilise for Haiti (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

Dozens of French rappers and pop stars are joining renowned singers Charles Aznavour and Youssou N’Dour to record a music video Friday to raise funds for quake-stricken Haiti.

Duluth music professor learns parents in Haiti are alive (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

Rudy Perrault, a Haitian-born music professor at the University of Minnesota–Duluth, has heard that his mother and father are alive in his earthquake-ravaged homeland. Now, he hopes to convince his mother to move to the United States.

Hollywood stars lead Haitian quake charity drive (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

Haiti’s devastating earthquake has moved Hollywood and pop music stars to lead a rally for disaster relief donations and open their own wallets, led by Haitian hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean.

Haitian CD music offered for Haiti relief (The Wayne Independent)

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

 In an effort to raise needed relief for Haitian earthquake victims, a local church is offering Haitian worship music CDs for a suggested $10 donation.

Bay Area Haitian Musicians Plan Benefit Concerts (CBS 5 Bay Area)

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

The East Bay band of Haitian expatriates called, Kalbass Kreyol will hold a Haiti earthquake relief concert at Ashkenaz in Berkeley on Thursday, January 28th, organizers told CBS 5.

Haitian locals await word from loved ones (The Journal News)

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

SPRING VALLEY — In the decades since Haitian immigrants began settling in Rockland, life in this village has been intertwined with the fate of their Caribbean nation.

Canada’s Haitian diaspora tunes in for quake news (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

The phone lines lit up on Wednesday at Montreal’s CPAM Creole radio station, as Canada’s Haitian diaspora clamored for any information about the fate of loved ones in quake-stricken Haiti.

Stars appeal for quake relief (Straits Times)

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

LOS ANGELES – HAITIAN-BORN music star Wyclef Jean led an army of celebrities on Wednesday in an urgent appeal for aid following the devastating earthquake which rocked the star’s Caribbean homeland. Jean said in statements on his website and on micro-blogging network Twitter that the earthquake had been ‘a natural disaster of unprecedented proportion’ and that millions in Port-au-Prince were in …

Wyclef Jean’s Plea for Urgent Earthquake Relief in Haiti: "We Must Act Now" (TV Guide)

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Wyclef Jean is pleading for people to “act now” to help victims of the devastating 7.0 Haitian earthquake, which officials feared could leave thousands dead . “Haiti today faced a natural disaster of unprecedented proportion, an earthquake unlike anything the country has ever experienced,” the Haitian-American music star wrote on his blog . “I cannot stress enough what a human disaster this is …