Singer and virtuoso kora player Wassa Kouyaté will be accompanied by Balla Kouyaté, a virtuoso player of the balafon (West African xylophone). “Oral tradition holds that when the emperor Sundiata ...

“The Hendrix of the Kora” Music News With a big African Heart, virtuoso kora player Seckou Keita and his international quintet are not to be confined to any one genre, dipping comfortably in ...

a singer and kora player. The most hardened and intrepid revelers can also venture out to the eighth annual Desert Festival, to be held next January 10 to 12 in the oasis at Essakane, 65 ...

Ballaké Sissoko undisputedly Mali’s finest living kora player. Diabaté had fallen largely silent in the years before he died, apart from a glorious one-take collaborative record with the ...