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Kora Duets: Madou Sidiki Diabaté And Salif Bamakora at The Kennett Flash
Courtesy of Etix | Posted on April 20, 2024
Where
The Kennett Flash
102 Sycamore Alley
Kennett Square, PA
Map
(484) 732-8295
When
Fri, June 28, 2024
8:00 pm
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The Kennett Flash is proud to present Kora Duets: Madou Sidiki Diabaté and Salif Bamakora!Friday, June 28, 2024$20 all tickets | $15 members$5 BYOB8pm show | 7pm doorsall ages
Join us for an experience of the history, power, magic and guidance of the West African Kora with world renowned 71st-generation virtuoso Madou Sidiki Diabaté, accompanied by his longtime student Salif Bamakora, as the duo explore and interpret the traditional repertoire of songs and stories of the Djeli, or Griots, the hereditary keepers of knowledge encoded in music. Serving for centuries as advisors, emissaries, oral historians and peacemakers, the Djeli maintain the people’s ties to their cultural inheritance and vitality of purpose with a resilient and adaptive cordage of intertwined praise and remembrance. Masterful musicianship combined with glimpses of the rich and storied significance of West Africa’s musical memory enlivened and animated by the harp strings of an ancient tradition still blossoming in the 21st century....