
Canadian rocker's parents left Haiti before he was born, but he has always seen the relationship between people and as part of an upcoming documentary on Arcade Fire to perform the movie jumped at the chance.
Ram Band Haitian musicians like band hit the road last year, wanted to raise the profile. Left (10) last year (10) destroyed by earthquakeShe tells Britain's The Observer newspaper, "It was last summer when we invited Ram to Quebec City to play with us at a festival. Over that weekend we became friendly with many of the group.
"I remember eating dinner in the catering area and noticing one of them had a distant look on his face. I realised he was looking at the festival’s catering tent, which was bigger and nicer than the one he lived in. Many of the musicians in this amazing band are still living in tents in Port-au-Prince, more than a year after the earthquake."
Chassagne admits there's a real spirit of hope in the Haitian capital - and the show Arcade Fire performed there was one of their best: "The monitor set-up here sounds better than what we had on the Funeral tour... We have definitely had worse sound in fancier places... People pulled out all the stops."
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