KREYOLFEST 2008 TO SIZZLE AS IT HIGHLIGHTS 40 YEARS OF TABOU COMBO!!!

Saturday, June 28, 2008!
Wingate Park, Brooklyn,  NY

BROOKLYN – To honor Tabou Combo's legacy, the world's most famous Konpa band, Kreyolfest organizers are preparing a dazzling celebration during the festival on Saturday June 28, 2008 at Wingate Park.

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Zenglen

Zenglen
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Black Parents, Carimi

Black Parents

Carimi
CARIMI has achieved more success in two years than many bands have in five years or more, its members, fans and music lovers say. The trio, Carlo Vieux, keyboardist Richard Cave and lead singer Mickael Guirand, has raised eyebrows in the industry.

T-Vice, Krezi

T-vice
The railroad tracks that the T-VICE train has traveled on have been long. From their first album, the band has been delivering. "You can expect a very energized Perfomance from the Vice Camp," Says Roberto Martino, lead vocal and guitar.

Krezi Mizik
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Tabou Combo, Zin

Tabou Combo
Tabou Combo
 
"Rhythm is the essence of Tabou Combo," says Tabou Combo's co-founder and ex-drummer Herman Nau. The infectious rhythm of Haiti's national dance music, Konpa (con-pah), has propelled the country's preeminent dance band around the world. The 12 members of the band have covered many territories since leaving Haiti and relocating to New York City in 1971. By that time, Tabou had already established itself as Haiti's number one group, and as the "Ambassadors of Konpa." Tabou Combo now has worldwide fans and followers from London to Paris, Holland, Switzerland, Japan, South America, throughout the Caribbean and in North America.
 
It is easy to understand why Tabou Combo's relentless and high-energy style of Konpa beat knows no language barrier. Singing in English, Spanish, French or their native Creole, Tabou serves a hot mix of grooves and textures with roots from around the world. You will hear a strong dose of the Dominican Republic's national dance music, meringue. In addition, there is Haiti's dance-till-you-drop carnival music, rara, the hypnotic drums of Haitian Vodou rituals. Add to that quadrilles and contra-dances from Haiti's French colonizers and funk from the American soul era to James Brown for good measure. The mixture of all these influences makes for a serious bass line that brings new meaning to the word bottom; layer upon layer of accents courtesy of drums, percussion and congas; the constant intertwining of two guitars with the feel of West African Soukous topped with bright piano riff and the brassy sound of a 3-man horn section.
 
Tabou Combo got started in 1968 in Petion-Ville, a town just outside Port-au-Prince, by Albert Chancy and Herman Nau and some friends, all in their teens. They began by naming themselves "Los Incognitos", because they were unknown at that time. They changed to Tabou Combo in 1969, in order to bear a name closer to the Haitian culture. That year, the band won first prize in a televised talent contest, gaining a national reputation in Haiti, and by 1970 it was one of the island's leading bands. Then the Chancy's parents stepped in, and Albert, the band's guitarist and original leader was sent to college in Montreal, and gave up music. The band dissolved and its members drifted to the United States. Early in 1971, however, an unexpected meeting led to a Tabou reunion with rhythm guitarist Jean-Claude Jean as the leader and the band has been together, with a few changes, ever since.

Zin
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