Then came set after set of brilliant playing–Banning Eyre and Friends, Oran Etkin’s Kelenia, Abdoulaye Alhassane Touré, Benyoro, Leni Stern, Balla Kouyaté’s World Vision, Awa Sangho, Guy Davis, and Toubab Krewe–interspersed with pitches for donations to help the refugees. Fundraising kicked into gear during a speech by New York state senator Bill Perkins whose Harlem district is home to many African immigrants. Perkins reminded the crowd that while Mali usually meant music, tonight, “Mali means Money!”