Dec 10
7:00 PM
Etienne Charles' Creole Christmas
Hayti Heritage Center
The holidays have a passport, and Etienne Charles holds it. The Trinidad-born trumpeter — a Guggenheim Fellow who has composed for the New York Philharmonic — brings his beloved Creole Christmas to Hayti, reimagining the holiday songbook through the rhythms of the Caribbean. Boogie to "Go Tell It on the Mountain". Donny Hathaway's "This Christmas" but with an island breeze. Even Tchaikovsky's Sugar Plum Fairy finds her way to a steel pan. Charles and his stellar ensemble move through calypso, jazz, parang, and soul and take us all on the
