KANDELAB
The Songs of Haiti
Preserving Haiti's folktales, folksongs, and Vodou songs through scholarship, recordings, and the Vodou Jazz Real Book.
410
Folk & Vodou songs notated
4
Published songbooks + CDs
41
Songs in the Vodou Jazz Real Book
501(c)(3)
Nonprofit foundation
Our Mission
Documenting a Living Tradition Before It Is Lost
Founded by musician and producer George Wilson, Kandelab has produced four songbooks accompanied by recordings, gathering 410 folk and Vodou songs that now constitute a real reference of Haitian sacred and secular music.
A lifelong lover of jazz, George later arranged forty-one of these songs for jazz musicians — the Kandelab Vodou Jazz Real Book — opening these traditions to a new generation of players and listeners around the world.
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