Looking for some unique and original music for your Valentine's Day? Take a moment to listen to Mona Augustin's songs that our band, 2 Roots (2 Rasin (ra-seen in Haitian Creole) recorded a couple of years ago and Najee's beautiful song about the essence of love! We hope your day was filled with the love that is embued in our universe, we just have to tap into it! The music in the intro is from our album with the UN award winning song "Women, I'm Defending Women" as the title song which you can see our ⁠music⁠ video here and about our album ⁠2 Roots album.⁠ --- Support this podca ..read more

We Will Remember is the English version of the Haitian Creole phrase N a Sonje which we use to name our Foundation, the N a Sonje Foundation. Our first or Ground Zero episode is where we weave our own band's music, 2 Roots and music I recorded in Haiti over the years adding some of Ron's special fingerpicking audio together with the voices of co-hosts Carla and Ron (that's us), currently refugees in the US along with audio in Haiti from our Haitian colleagues, co-founders of N a Sonje Vèt, Rocky (see them in this video) and Najee. The music in the intro is from our band, 2 Roots', album w ..read more

This is/was a surprise edition dedicated to co-host Ron Bluntschli for his 69th birthday. Enjoy the diversity of voices, songs, wishes, and wisdom from our home community in Haiti, Canada, the US, the DR and even Costa Rica! Ron's guitar makes the day! The video Djalòki refers to is one that our granddaughter made while Ron was making his ritual ramen and egg breakfast, it's quite a hoot! Things you do when in exile! Blessings and many thanks to all the voices and well wishes from everyone and to those who take the time to give a listen. It's good to be connected even virtually! N a Sonje ..read more

January 12th 2010 - 14 years ago a more than deadly earthquake hit Ayiti. As a memorial to the day, we offer this episode to the memory and the miracles that happened not ever forgetting the instantaneous death that has haunted the streets of the capital for years and perhaps to this day as we will share these stories of our community with you. To see the actual ⁠Discovery channel YouTube⁠ that I refer to and the damning evidence for the extreme level of death and destruction of "Goudougoudou" (Haitian's nickname for the earthquake) watch the video we watched even as we reeled from t ..read more

A double portion episode as Independence was fought and WON and then Pumpkin Soup brought health and healing right afterwards until this very day!!! Some notes for the first part, Madison Smartt Bell's trilogy of the Haitian Revolution, if you don't have time for 3 books, the first, All Souls Rising, is well worth the time! If you want to know more about the author of the Act of Independence and his writings, he can be found with his name, Boisrond Tonnerre. If you want to watch a documentary about the real defeat of Napolean that the movie Napolean won't give you: Jean Jacques Dessalines, the ..read more

In spite of the extremely difficult situation for the people and the country, we wanted to bring the variety of traditions in Haiti for this particular season, Noel or Christmas to honor the different types of the end of the year celebrations even though this season has all but extinguished some of them. Haiti's people are like a kaleidoscope of colors, traditions and beliefs coming from continents far away as well as ancestors native to the land. The recording quality varies due to the authenticity of each person's location so we hope you "enjoy" that as well as the music by the band and our ..read more

This episode is dedicated to the world but especially to Haiti at this time and offered as a prayer of simple hope. Many thanks for all 31 friends who participated in sending these aspirations through this podcast as a prayer of hope that someday they might become reality! N a Sonje! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tantka/support ..read more

Today's episode is in honor of the World AIDS Day, albeit one day after, that the World Health Organization has established in order to bring solidarity and more awareness to this pandemic since the 1980's. But for us it's more specifically about the stigmatization that Haiti underwent during the beginning stages of this crisis. You may be aware that Haiti was listed as one of the "4 H's" that were supposedly the causes of the disease, as if a person's land of birth could be the origins of a deadly virus. But, as most Haitians believe, their fight for freedom since the triumphant victory for f ..read more

This past weekend is a celebrated time of history not just for Haiti but for all the people and countries involved in the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Most remarkably, most US citizens probably don't know much about it but should know this story as it is the reason the continental US is what it is today!!! Listen, maybe follow the map, and Google the rest! This is a complicated history but nevertheless an absolute triumphant victory over domination!!! Please forgive some of the sound quality and small translation errors along the way and again, all in the effort to bring the voices, the history ..read more

We return to the south of the country again to hear from a young man, a child grown from the moutains outside of the town of Bainet. A searcher of truth, tradition and roots, sharing what he finds with all who have ears and hearts to hear. Although steeped from his upbringing in Catholism, along the way he felt those gentle arms of Ayiti taking him even deeper to find more of himself. We were and still are blessed to be on his path and to have his physical, cultural and spiritual presence in our home for many years. There is another town that we refer to called "Sodo" in the Artibonite departm ..read more