STAUNTON — Les Petits Chanteurs, a 40-member men’s and boys’ choir from Port Au Prince, Haiti, will perform at 7 p.m. Sept. 13 at Trinity Episcopal Church, 214 W. Beverley St. The 30-voice choir, a group of select performers ranging in age from 8 to 18, is accompanied by a string ensemble from the Holy Trinity Philharmonic Orchestra.
The Richmond Folk Festival has announced its first set performers playing the Oct. 8-10 event. These first eight acts reflect the high quality and stylistic diversity of the festival, which takes place along the James River in Richmond.
Sarah Weiser Wilson Charles, a blind piano tuner, works on the Everett Street Tunes piano at Wetmore and Hewitt on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010 in Everett, Wash. Wilson, who is originally from Haiti, started playing the piano when he was 15 years old and started tuning pianos later in life when he was in his mid-20s.
Five years ago, Hurricane Katrina swept infants out of their mothers’ arms, filled whole neighborhoods with dirty water, flooded schools and hospitals and turned New Orleans into a byword for disaster.
A special recovery commission announced more than $1.6 billion in projects to rebuild earthquake-ravaged Haiti on Tuesday, including a $200 million plan to create 50,000 new jobs in agriculture.
Haitians are to learn Tuesday whether hip-hop star Wyclef Jean meets the legal requirements to run for president in a country devastated by one of the world’s worst natural disasters.
Washington – New projects for building schools and hospitals, creating jobs and removing tons of debris from earthquake- shattered Haiti were announced Tuesday by the commission overseeing the Caribbean nation’s reconstruction.
Wyclef Jean spent 2 million dollars to buy the elections in Haiti. Right now, he is calling for violence in Port-au Prince because his candidancy was rejected today. He is a selfish person that has a God like complex. He is not right for Haiti. Thank you for posting.
AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Aug. 17 /PRNewswire/ — The Interim Haiti Recovery Commission , co-chaired by Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive and President Bill Clinton, today reaffirmed its goals and priorities and announced a set of projects at its second Board meeting in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
The first Miss Haiti in 22 years is not the typical contestant you’d find in a beauty pageant. She is a young lawyer who speaks four languages and is happy to be able to help her country after the horrific earthquake that devastated the impoverished Caribbean nation last January.
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