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Solo Cissokho & Indré Jurgelevičiūtė at Bray Jazz Festival at Bray Town Hall
Courtesy of Bray Jazz | Posted on March 29, 2019
Where
Bray Town Hall
Bray Jazz Festival
Main Street, Co Wicklow
Bray
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When
Fri, May 3, 2019
18:30
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The universality of music, across cultures and continents, was put under the microscope when two of the leading players of the traditional strings of West Africa and the Baltics first recorded together, in 2015.
That collaboration, between Senegalese kora master, Solo Cissokho, and Lithuanian kanklės player, Indrė Jurgelevičiūtė, met with universal acclaim, and earned the duo winning a top prize from World Music Network, the following year.
Since then, Solo & Indré have been much in demand. The interlinking patterns of the West African kora and the medieval kanklés (a Baltic box zither) provide a platform for the pair to sing and perform beautiful and touching folk melodies from their homelands....