Tags: Genre, Music Genre, Topical Concept.
Rara is a form of festival music that originated in Haïti that is used for street processions typically during Easter Week. The music centers on a set of cylindrical bamboo trumpets called vaksen (which may also be made of metal pipes) but also features drums maracas güiras or güiros (a percussion instrument) and metal bells as well as sometimes also cylindrical metal trumpets which are made from recycled metal often coffee cans.
