Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Dawda Jobarteh is musical royalty in Manding West Africa: his grandfather was the celebrated kora player Bai ...
Jobarteh is Africa’s first female griot kora virtuoso, and also a fine singer and composer, blending traditional music, blues and Afropop to impressive effect This concert starts with a slinky riff ...
Sean Gaskell will give a solo acoustic set on the Kora, an ancient 21-stringed harp from West Africa. Gaskell features traditional songs of the Mandinka people from Gambia, Senegal, Mali, Guinea, and ...
The west African and French duo brought complexity, delicacy and intuition to improvisations that had the audience yelling their appreciation This was an exquisite, gently adventurous evening of west ...
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