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Vegas Is Going To Be Lit With Haitian Music Konpa In Vegas

Konpa In Vegas 2016! Haitian music is coming to the state of Nevada. Presented by the VIP Experience Group, a music promotions and event company, the multi-day affair is set to begin on Thursday June 23rd, and concludes on the 27th.

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Above: Members of Haitian bands Carimi, Enposib, and Harmonik pose on the strip during a past edition of Konpa In Vegas.

The show is set to be hosted by Haiti-based, multimedia personality Carel Pedre, and will feature a highly-anticipated performance by the band Sweet Mickey, headed by former Haiti president Michel Martelly. Other performers scheduled include Rutshelle, a songstress based in Haiti, as well as JPerry, also based on the island. Comedian Kako will be joining Carel Pedre with hosting duties. Initial flyers for the event indicated that Haitian-American Productions, featuring comedians Haitian Husbands, Plus Daddy and Success Jr, were going to be performing, but the comedians announced on their page that they would not be there this year.

Half-a-dozen deejays will take the stage and rock the life out of the hundreds expected for the event: DJ Jeanuwine, DJ Rock, DJ Stakz, DJ Ok, DJ Roger, DJ Dynamic and DJ Groove. Among the bands performing: Carimi, T-Vice, 5Lan, Harmonik and Karizma.
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Above: Konpa In Vegas partygoers at last year’s event.

The organizers, headed by founder Nathan Fragelus, put on the event every summer, drawing hundreds of Haitian-Americans who are eager to have a taste of Haitian music in an exciting city. This is the fourth edition of the event. This year VIP Experience Group has even emerged with a free app that attendees can download to keep up with the schedule and performances.

Konpa In Vegas 2016 is here!

Will you be going dear Kreyolicious readers?

BE SURE TO VISIT THE KONPA IN VEGAS WEBSITE FOR MORE DETAILS!| KONPA IN VEGAS ON FACEBOOK

[All photos via Konpa In Vegas]

K St. Fort
K St. Fort
ABOUT K. St Fort K. St. Fort is the Editor and Founder of, well, Kreyolicious.com and wishes to give you a heartfelt welcome to her site. She loves to read, write, and listen to music and is fascinated by her Haitian roots, and all aspects of her culture. Speaking of music, she likes it loud, really, really loud. Like bicuspid valve raising-loud. Her other love are the movies. She was once a Top 50 finalist for a student screenwriting competition, encouraging her to continue pounding the pavement. She has completed several screenplays, with Haiti as the backdrop, one of which tackles sexual abuse in an upper middle class Haitian family, while another has child slavery as its subject. She is currently completing another script, this time a thriller, about two sisters who reunite after nearly 10 years of separation. A strong believer in using films to further educational purposes, and to raise awareness about important subjects, she has made it a point to write about social issues facing Haiti, and making them an integral part of her projects. She has interviewed such Haitian-American celebrities as Roxane Gay, Garcelle Beauvais, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Briana Roy, Karen Civil, and many, many more. And that’s her writing this whole biographical sketch. She actually thinks writing about herself in the third person is cute. MY WEBSITE Kreyolicious ™: kree-ohl-lish-uh s: Surely an adjective…the state of being young, gorgeous, fine and utterly Haitian. Kreyolicious.com™, the hub for young, upwardly mobile Haitian-Americans, is akin to a 18th Century cultural salon but with a Millennium sensibility–an inviting lair, where we can discuss literature, music, problems facing the community, and everything on the side and in-between. Kreyolicious is the premier lifestyle, culture and entertainment blog and brand of the hip, young, trend-oriented, forward thinking Haitian-American. It’s the definite hot spot to learn more about Haiti our emerging identity as a people, and explore our pride and passion about our unique and vibrant culture. Within the site’s pages, Kreyolicious.com is going to engage you, empower you, and deepen your connection to everything Haitian: the issues, the culture, our cinema, the history, our cuisine, the style, the music, the worldwide community. Make yourself at home in my cultural salon. If you’re looking to learn more about Haiti, Kreyolicious.com invites you to board this trolley on a journey–on our journey. For me too, it is a process, a non-ending cultural odyssey. If you’re already acculturated, I can certainly learn something from you. We can learn from one other, for certain. With my site, Kreyolicious.com I look forward to inspiring you, to enriching you, and to participating alongside of you, in the cultural celebration. And being utterly kreyolicious. How do you wear your kreyoliciousness? On your sleeves, like I do? Kreyoliciously Yours, Your girl K. St. Fort, Ahem, follow me elsewhere!

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