The Loft at Hermit Woods Presents Kora Duets – Madou Sidiki Diabaté and Salif Bamakora

MEREDITH — Madou Sidiki Diabaté and Salif Bamakora will perform Kora duets on Thursday, July 18, at The Loft at Hermit Woods. 

The evening promises 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 explores and interprets 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.

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