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April 11, 2017

Words by Jesse Serwer
Photos by Christopher L. Mitchell

The Hotel Oloffson is the most storied structure in Port-au-Prince, and probably the most unusual. It’s the sort of place where, one presumes, every imaginable scenario that can happen in life has, in fact, happened.

This 19^th century gothic gingerbread mansion has found itself in the middle of Haitian affairs for over 100 years. Built in the 1890s by the Sams, a prominent family that produced two of the country’s presidents, it was used as a hospital by the American military during its occupation of Haiti between 1915 and 1934.

Werner Gustav Oloffson, a German-Swedish seaman, converted the grounds into a hotel in 1935. It acquired a bohemian character after the 1950s, when it was taken over by a French photographer, attracting artists, musicians and writers. Jackie Onassis, Marlon Brando and Mick Jagger stayed here during Haiti’s brief moment as a tourism hotspot in the ‘70s and early ‘80s. (“The poolside crush rivals that of the Beverly Hills Hotel,” People Magazine wrote in 1980.) Notably, it was the inspiration for the madhouse-like Hotel Trianon in Graham Greene’s 1966 novel The Comedians, and the 1967 Elizabeth Taylor movie by the same name.

Today, the weathered Oloffson — an odd

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The Music catch the fancy of Haïti

Lakou Mizik
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OffBeat Magazine

The Krewe Du Kanaval brought the sights and sounds of both New Orleans and Haiti to the streets and music venues of Knoxville, Tennessee, on the last weekend of March as part of the sold-out Big Ears Festival. Preservation Hall Jazz Band, 79rs Gang, Aurora Nealand and the Royal Roses and Sporty’s Brass Band represented New Orleans while two Haitian groups, RAM and Lakou Mizik, traveled from Haiti.

The Big Ears Festival, which began in 2009, is a four-day event focusing on avant-garde music in several fields at various venues around downtown Knoxville. Krewe du Kanaval was started in 2015 by Ben Jaffe, the creative director of Preservation Hall, two founding members of the rock band Arcade Fire: Win Butler and his wife Régine Chassagne, whose family is Haitian. After moving to New Orleans, Butler and Chassagne met Jaffe and invited Jaffe on a research trip to explore Haitian culture.

As Ben Jaffe told Paste magazine, “When we were down there, Régine introduced me to the gentleman who had the band called RAM, Richard Morse. And immediately there was a brotherhood there. He’s doing very similar things in his community that are also being done in New Orleans, like what Preservation Hall does, just on a different scale and with different obstacles.”