Tchaka (Guillaume) - The Morningside Choir

Tchaka Music by Sydney Guillaume Text by Gabriel T. Guillaume The Morningside Choir Dr. Ryan Person, conductor March 2023 Morningside University Sioux City, Iowa Translation of Haitian Creole text: Turn up the fire! We are going to eat tchaka! Turn up the fire, stir up the corn, don’t forget the salt pork, We are going to eat a delicious tchaka. We are going to cook up a mind-blowing stew. At the sound of the three drums, everyone yells out hurray. If we join together we can all move forward. Let us enmesh in lovely harmony A delicious homemade stew, a musical tchaka. It’s a delicious homemade stew, a national tchaka, A delicious homemade stew… Turn up the fire! Turn up the fire! *Yanvalou, Kontredans, Rabòday are amazing. Roots music, oh yes, that’s good stuff. Let’s stick together; side by side we can move forward. Turn up the fire! Turn up the fire! The tchaka is cooking… ‪@sydneyguillaume‬