Welsh harpist Catrin FinchSeckou Keita and Senegalese kora player met by chance in 2012, when Keita was called in to substitute for Toumani Diabaté in rehearsals for a tour with Finch. A military coup ...
Twenty years ago, Toumani Diabate made the kora’s very first entirely solo, instrumental album. Now the world’s most celebrated virtuoso of his West African harp-lute, Toumani has since made many, ...
The West African harp called the kora has 21 strings. It's a difficult instrument to master, and the best players perform with a technique, nuance and repertoire comparable to those of a concert ...
On a moonlit African night in a leafy open-air bar, kora virtuoso Toumani Diabate is peeling off an ethereal flood of kaleidoscopic riffs from a 21-string cow-skin covered harp like one his ...
PORT ANGELES — Saturday evening at Oven Spoonful, novelist and wildlife biologist Patrick Loafman will sign copies of his new book, Somewhere Upriver, and play original music on his kora harp. There’s ...
"How come we've never heard of this beautiful instrument until now?" This was posted by a first-year college student to my world music course discussion board recently. He voiced what many of his ...
SOAS, University of London provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The untimely death of Mali’s Toumani Diabaté at the age of 58 has shocked the music world. The sheer number of tributes, ...
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