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| | Rara in the Artibonite Valley of Haiti |
 | | A rara band is composed of men and women, members of the congregation of a particular Houngan or Mambo, or more frequently, of a Makaya Bokor or Sanpwel President. |
 | | A rara band can easily cover four or five miles in a day's outing, and as the culminating day of Good Friday approaches, their appearances become more and more frequent, until the roads are choked with rara bands and onlookers. |
 | | The dust, the drums, the costumes and colors, the sound of many men and women all singing together, the cracking whips, the dancing, all create an atmosphere of excitement in which the spectator is free to participate as fully as he or she wishes. |
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