Creole Choir Of Cuba @ The Sage Gateshead

Vocal and percussion group performing vibrant dancing and music from descendent Cuban communities from Haiti, Dominica and Cuba itself.

The choir sing in Creole, Cuba's second language and is a fusion of African, French and other languages.

It’s the language of a people twice exiled: first to Haiti from Africa through the slave trade; then from Haiti to Cuba tricked into second slavery by their French masters after the Haitian Revolution of 1790. The Choir recently toured in Haiti as part of Cuba's relief project following the January earthquake and ran workshops with children within displaced persons camps as well as performing for the public in specially arranged concerts.

More information available from the The Sage [2] website.

Part of a UK tour which also hits:

Celtic Connections [3], Glasgow - 29/01/11
St Georges [4], Bristol - 01/02/11
Arts Centre [5], Aberwystwyth - 02/02/11
Taliesin Arts Centre, [6] Swansea - 02/02/11
Brighton Dome [7] - 06/02/11
London Barbican [8] - 08/02/11
Croydon Clocktower [9] - 09/02/11
Apex, [10] Bury St Edmunds - 10/02/11
Manchester RNCM [11]- 11/02/10
Birmingham Town Hal [12]l - 14/02/11
The Anvil, [13] Basingstoke - 15/02/11
Turner Sims [14], Southampton - 18/02/11
Theatre Royal, [15] Nottingham - 20/02/11