The Wednesday night performances of Mamady Kouyate’s Mandingo Ambassadors straddle two pivotal epochs of African history nearly 1000 years apart. One is the time-honored tradition that fuses oral ...
Bassekou Kouyate is a musical wizard and one of Africa's most innovative bandleaders. He plays the ngoni, the traditional lute from Mali that dates back hundreds of years and is the musical forebear ...
From his early days in Bamako when he was playing in a trio together with Toumani Diabate and Keletigui Diabate till today where he is pursuing his own career, Bassekou has transformed the traditional ...