On a clear day this spring, I attended Mass at the Abbey of Keur Moussa, a Benedictine monastery about an hour’s drive from the Senegalese capital of Dakar. It wasn’t Sunday, and I’m not a Catholic.
The 21-string kora is West Africa’s traditional harp lute. It is part of West African musical history in Senegal, Guinea, Mali, and other countries. It is a beautiful hand-crafted instrument: a large ...
The kora is a West African harp with 21 strings and a large calabash gourd body. According to Eric Charry, a historian of West African music, the instrument originated in the late 18th century, during ...
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, ...
Welcome spring with the beautiful tones of the unique West African Kora harp. Music@ New Canaan Library welcomes back Sean Gaskell, who will introduce the music of the Kora, an ancient 21-stringed ...
This, I suspect, will be remembered as one of the classic concerts of the year. It was the first London appearance of the celebrated young classical harpist Catrin Finch, and Seckou Keita, the finest ...
Douga Mansa is a feast of absolutely solo, West African instrumental virtuosity and improvisatory flair. ‘Live’ in the studio, Mamadou Diabate plays kora - a 21-string harp/lute. As a griot/jeli, ...
Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita are a duo by serendipity. In early 2012 Finch, a leading Welsh harpist, was due to embark on a tour of the Principality with the Malian kora maestro Toumani Diabaté.
Musician Sean Gaskell performed at the Shawnee County Library auditorium, playing the kora, a West African harp-like ...
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 ...
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West African musician shares history of kora at Topeka library
TOPEKA (KSNT) — Community members gathered at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library Sunday afternoon to experience the ...
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