Mali News » Bamako News Mali » Bamako » Music: Still dancing at 88, Mali’s Mariam Bagayoko keeps tradition alive
At the age of 88, barefoot and cinched into a belt of cowrie shells, renowned singer Mariam Bagayoko still sweeps across the stage with infectious energy, dazzling wide-eyed fans with the rhythms of ...
News Mali » Bamako » Music: Mali’s maestro of African salsa: how Boncana Maïga shaped dance music
The passing of celebrated Malian flautist, composer and arranger Boncana Maïga at the age of 77 truly marks the end of an era in the music of west Africa. He was a charismatic performer and bandleader ...
News Mali » Bamako » Music: Toumani Diabaté, Malian Master of the Kora, Is Dead at 58
He believed that music could transcend national borders set by colonialism and restore ancient ties, even as it embraced the changes of a globalizing society. By Giovanni Russonello Toumani Diabaté, a ...
News Mali » Bamako » Music: Bamako sounds the Afropolitan ethics of Malian music Ryan Thomas Skinner
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News Mali » Bamako » Music: Toumani Diabaté, world music master of Mali’s stringed kora, dies at 58
Toumani Diabaté, a Malian virtuoso of a 21-string instrument known as the kora, who brought a rich West African musical legacy to audiences around the world with genre-mixing collaborations ranging ...
News Mali » Bamako » Music: ‘Bamako*Chicago Sound System’ Review: Mali to the Midwest
The new release “Bamako*Chicago Sound System” (FPE Records) opens like the master-shot sequence of a documentary about a community, as its members settle in together.
News Mali » Bamako » Music: In Memoriam: Amadou Bagayoko (Amadou and Mariam), a sad sunday in Bamako
Blinded at the age of 15 due to early and severe cataracts, Amadou was born in his beloved Mali in 1954 and passed away this 4 April at the age of 70. Since the 1980s, his artistic journey and ...
News Mali » Bamako » Music: In Mali, Music Is a Family Legacy
I longed, for so long, to visit Mali. What I loved in my imagination before ever setting eyes on the enormous West African country was its ancient culture: the intricately carved, semiabstract ...