His ancestors were the voices of kings. His surname identifies him as a member of a musical family that can trace its genealogy to the 13th century, a lineage of storytellers, singers and musicians, ...

Musician Toumani Diabaté of Mali and his 21-string kora, photographed at WOMAD -- the World of Music, Arts and Dance festival held yearly in the United Kingdom. Diabaté died on July 19 at age 58. "He ...

Derek Gripper was a musician with a problem. He'd been playing classical music since he was 6 years old — violin, then piano and finally guitar. He was poised for an international career as a ...

We're adapting the way the kora and the oud are played...using contemporary choices within traditional forms. Seattle's Kane Mathis is one of the world's leading performers on the kora, the ...

Sona Jobarteh was born in London to a family of Gambian griots, musicians and storytellers who maintain the oral tradition that keeps the histories of their people alive. Jobarteh’s family is one of ...

The African and American musicians who play in Kora Konnection demonstrate, in music and method, the link between West Africa and New Orleans. Kora Konnection features Morikeba Kouyate, a Senegalese ...

SOAS, University of London provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The untimely death of Mali’s Toumani Diabaté at the age of 58 has shocked the music world. The sheer number of tributes, ...

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 ...

The word “fusion” was an insult to Toumani Diabaté. Throughout his life, the maestro of the kora, the 21-string West African harp-lute, rejected the term with a polite but steely firmness. “Fusion ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “How come we’ve never heard of this beautiful instrument until now?” This was posted by a first-year college student to my world ...

The A.K. Smiley Public Library presents an encore performance of “Music of the West African Kora,” presented by Sean Gaskell at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 17, at the Contemporary Club. The A.K. Smiley ...

Derek Gripper's exploration of West African kora music has produced two acclaimed albums — and, he says, a better understanding of the classical... Guitarist Conjures The Sound Of The Kora From ...