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universal literacy for haiti
universal literacy for haiti
Helping Young People Create New Worlds

and Partners' Power of Good



Lèkol Toupatou! (School Everywhere!)
for Universal Literacy in Haiti.
Feeding Education.

Honoring Music-
Educators.

JAMBAR is a great Partner for Music and Education.

Madme Franck Paul with
her Mon Livre Unique.

A Concert for Kidd Jordan
in 2019.

'Full-Spectrum Art'--Hobart Taylor, KUCI, University of California Irvine.
'Like Shakespeare, Jack Kerouac, Langston Hughes and Carson McCullers, Don Paul uses words like music'--David Amram.
'Some of the most superbly creative, funky fun you'll ever hear'--Dick Metcalf, Contemporary Fusion Review, on Don Paul's 2022 album LOVE OVER WAR.
'There's no denying the art of what Lewis is doing'--Dodie Louis Gould on Roger Lewis 2022 album ALRIGHT!. 'Free, funky, bluesy, endlessly creative, fun, unpredictable, independent, jazzy, and a gumbo of influences'--Allen Michie in ArtsFuse on ALRIGHT! .
'An exemplar of New Orleans rhythm'--Nate Chinen on Herlin Riley in the New York Times. 'I wondered at how much sound, how much life, could come from the drum'--Tod A. Smith on Herlin Riley.
'Sousaphonist Kirk Joseph is as fast and funky as any electric bassist'--Geoffrey Himes in the Washington Post. 'Sir Kirk ... is such an obvious star ...
a one-in-a-million player'--Elvis Costello.

With the great engineer and musician Rick G. Nelson, Marigny Recording Studio, August 2021. Roger, Don, Herlin, Kirk. Photo by Maryse Philippe Déjean.

LISTEN--
"Bobee (What A Spirit Walks That Way"
"Glory Glory Glory Is For Us All"
'Maybe You See Horses (from and for Kidd Jordan)'
"Get Your JAM On!" with guest singer Erica Falls

Because the River
Answers to the Moon
And gathers silt
From all its Streams
Sky and River
Never choose
Who touches them
And whom they touch.
Coming in Autumn 2023, Louisiana Stories, combining musics of New Orleans
and Acadiana with very special guests.


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