When most bands come through Lancaster County, they usually play a show and leave within 24 hours or less. Lakou Mizik, however, is not most bands. From Sunday, June 12 to Saturday, June 18, the ...
Lakou Mizik is more than a roots band from Haiti with a brilliant debut album, Wa Di Yo. It’s the musical spirit of a people standing up in joyful defiance of the forces that have laid it ...
After the earthquake of January 2010 devastated Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince and much of its hinterland, Steeve Valcourt, a young singer-guitarist steeped in Haitian roots music, and his friend ...
Lakou Mizik are a multi-generational Haitian collective that combine traditional Haitian styles like vodou, Rara, and compro with world music adventurousness. The band formed in the wake of the ...
Lakou Mizik is a powerhouse collective of Haitian roots music (mizik rasin) with a soulful energy and a mix of styles that feels mystical and familiar at the same time. In the wake of Haiti’s ...