Jubilee FT Kronos Quartet Bassekou Kouyate at Royal Albert Hall

SHOW: Ismaili Centre London, Aga Khan Music Initiative, and Serious present JUBILEE featuring Kronos Quartet Bassekou Kouyaté Master Musicians of the Aga Khan Music Initiative Contemporary expressions of musical heritage from the Middle East, West Africa and Central Asia Doors: 7:30pm Start: 8pm Jubilee will feature Master Musicians of the Aga Khan Music Initiative and special guests Kronos Quartet and Bassekou Kouyaté in a performance of newly-created compositions that exemplify the way musical creativity has historically developed from the meeting of different cultures. Tickets for this event are provided directly by the promoter and not printed by Ticketmaster and may not be dispatched until ten days before the event...

read more

SHOW: Ismaili Centre London, Aga Khan Music Initiative, and Serious present JUBILEE featuring Kronos Quartet Bassekou Kouyaté Master Musicians of the Aga Khan Music Initiative Contemporary expressions of musical heritage from the Middle East, West Africa and Central Asia Doors: 7:30pm Start: 8pm Jubilee will feature Master Musicians of the Aga Khan Music Initiative and special guests Kronos Quartet and Bassekou Kouyaté in a performance of newly-created compositions that exemplify the way musical creativity has historically developed from the meeting of different cultures. Tickets for this event are provided directly by the promoter and not printed by Ticketmaster and may not be dispatched until ten days before the event. The first half of the concert features Master Musicians of the Aga Khan Music Initiative (AKMI) and Kronos Quartet, the world-renowned collective who have been working with AKMI since 2008,and who have commissioned more than 900 new and original works and arrangements for string quartet since their inception in 1973. In the second half of the programme, AKMI's Masters will be joined by a trio of Malian musicians led by the ngoni player Bassekou Kouyaté, a long-term AKMI collaborator whose recording 'Segu Blue' won Album of the Year & African Artist of the Year at the BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music and received a Grammy nomination for the follow-up 'I Speak Fula'. The trio also includes Kouyaté's wife Amy Sacko and daughter Oumou Kouyaté on vocals

show less