Details

WHERE:

The Graduate Center Elebash Recital Hall 365 Fifth Avenue

WHEN:

November 27, 2012: 7:00 PM-8:30 PM

ADMISSION:

$25, $20 Members

RESERVATIONS:

212-868-4444 or Reserve Now Description

Popularly known as “praise singers,” griots also use their songs for gossip, satire, or political commentary. This show features Abdoulaye Diabate, Abdourahmane Mangara, Yacouba Diabate, Mamady Kouyate, Mamady Kourouma, Famoro Dioubate, and other griots from Burkina Faso, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, the Gambia, Ivory Coast, Mali, Senegal, and Sierra Leone. They will perform on guitar, timbin (flute), gambare (lute), ngoni (lute), kora (harp/lute), balafon (xylophone), and djembe (drum), and they will be joined by special guest vocalists. Curated by Sylvain Leroux.