Garifuna Collective

In the organizer's words:

For twenty years, the Garifuna Collective has been an authority on the preservation and further development of the rich cultural heritage of the Garifuna, an Afro-diasporic community in Belize, Central America. The collective has an impact both within the community and out into the world. They have played at major music festivals around the world, performed in over thirty countries, received prizes such as the BBC World Music Award and produced numerous successful albums. To celebrate their twentieth anniversary, the Garifuna Collective is now on a world tour. The Garifuna are descendants of African enslaved people who were stranded off the coast of St. Vincent in the 17th century, presumably as a result of a shipwreck. Together with the indigenous Arawak people living there, they founded free, just and well-organized communities on the island, which were able to resist the European colonial powers for over a century until the British finally expelled them to the Central American mainland in the 18th century, where they settled on the coasts of Honduras, Belize, Guatemala and Nicaragua. To this day, the Garifuna preserve their own language, music and culture, which have also been included in UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

Part of Sonic Pluriverse Festival: Global Echoes of Gnawa.