Common Fence Music

Zili Misik is a band composed of 10 women who feature the music of Haiti, Brazil and West Africa. The music includes Haitian mizik rasin, Jamaican roots reggae, Afro-Brazilian samba, Afro-Cuban son, and African American spirituals, blues, jazz and neo soul. The all female band takes it's name zili from the Haitian spiritual entity "Ezili" who is envisaged as mother, lover and warrior. We will be offering a free afternoon youth and adult participatory workshop that will offer drumming and dance lessons as well as an evening performance.