RAM Fom Haiti

RAM, the band founded by Richard A. Morse in 1990 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, are stars in Haiti and among Haitian audiences in the diaspora, as well as to world music fans and “drum heads” everywhere. In 2022, in the face of turmoil in Haiti that made it impossible for the band to perform, RAM relocated as a group to New Orleans and continue to build a local audience as they adapt to their new musical environment in unpredictable and exciting ways.

The band, which features Lunise Morse on lead vocal, combines William Morse's electric guitar with vodou drummers and traditional one-note Haitian trumpets called kone (as in cornet). Their style, known as mizik rasin (roots music), draws on traditional vodou music of Haiti to create an original, intense, highly rhythmic vodou-rock sound.

RAM has made dozens of videoclips of their performances viewable on YouTube, and has released seven albums, most recently RAM 7: August 1791. In 1993, their Haitian hit “Dreams Come True (Ibo Lele)” was featured on soundtrack of Jonathan Demme’s Oscar-winning film Philadelphia as well as in the double-platinum release of the soundtrack itself.

RAM’s weekly dances at Port-au-Prince’s landmark Hotel Oloffson, which began in 1990, gave not only the band but the entire rasin movement a platform for live performance, and served as a launching pad for a number of careers in Haitian music. Many international stars came by the Oloffson to jam with the band over the years, memorably including New Orleans’s Preservation Hall Jazz Band in 2018.

Don’t miss this incredibly special evening of world music from one of Haiti’s most celebrated exports in the intimate and great-sounding Café Istanbul!

RAM

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Doors: 7:30PM

Show: 8:00PM

Tickets: $30 advance; $35 at the door

Café Istanbul

2372 St. Claude Avenue

New Orleans, LA

The Fine Print:

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