Hotel Oloffson

Went last night to the Hotel Oloffson to see RAM, a Port-au-Prince rasin band that incorporates rock, kompa, roots and folk elements of voudou, rara and petwo. At one point, I counted something like 17 performers on the floor and stage at once (sort of like half a Wu-Tang reunion, in that regard) -- all in a packed lobby that felt like a South Beach crowd transported to the house that inspired former resident Charles Addams' illustrations. I couldn't even begin to explain it. Here's a moving, talking picture instead.