Monday, May 17
Global Village celebrates the birthday of singer, songwriter, and guitarist Taj Mahal. Though best known for his classic blues and roots music, Taj has long been a pioneer in exploring the connections between blues and Caribbean, African, and Hawaiian music, and has also worked with a number of world artists including kora player Toumani Diabate, Malian guitar great Ali Farka Toure, and on the Red Hot + Riot tribute to Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti.
Tuesday, May 18
Global Village marks the Haitian Flag and Universities Day holiday with music from a variety of Haitian artists and groups. We’ll hear roots, compas, and cross-cultural collaborations from Boukman Eksperyans, Tabou Combo, Lakou Mizik (with special guest Leyla McCalla), the Neville Brothers with Les Freres Parents, and more.
é on balafon and the late Kasse Mady Diabat
é on vocals. These were seasoned Mande musicians all, but they had never performed with a Western orchestra. Indeed this was an entirely new concept. The concert was much praised at the time, but no one who did not attend one of the six performances staged that year each with a different orchestra could actually hear the music. Until now.
Thirteen years later, World Circuit has released Kôrôlén
, the complete Barbican concert. Afropop
’s Banning Eyre reached Toumani by Zoom in Abidjan, Cote d
’Ivoire, where he has spent the entire year of the pandemic, to discuss the project. Toumani
Jenny Cathcart, author of
“Notes from Africa-A Musical Journey with Youssou N’Dour.” The interview was broadcast previously. You can now listen to it and read a lightly edited (for clarity) transcript. This book is a genuine encyclopedia of African music, and African music audiophiles will surely want to read it.
JSR: Hi, this is Jeff Spitzer-Resnick here on PanAfrica, WORT 89.9 FM Madison and streaming as always at wortfm.org. I’m really pleased and honored to have Jenny Cathcart here in our virtual studio. Jenny’s the author of a book called “Notes from Africa, a Musical Journey with Youssou N’Dour.” Welcome, Jenny.
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West Africa at the Symphony
by Mark KidelSaturday, 17 April 2021
Toumani Diabate, master of the 21-string kora, along with some other Malian musicians, collaborated on a concert at London s Barbican Centre in 2008. The orchestra in question were the London Symphony, who have often been open to working with musicians from outside the classical field.
Toumani Diabate, master of the 21-string kora, along with some other Malian musicians, collaborated on a concert at London s Barbican Centre in 2008. The orchestra in question were the London Symphony, who have often been open to working with musicians from outside the classical field. The recording has now become available, and joins a number af Toumani s adventurous collabora