Kora The Artist is your getaway into a creative, gentle, yet sultry music experience. Watching Kora perform, it’s easy to tell that music is her happy place and that she’s excited to invite you into ...

Why are there no new musical instruments? It’s as if the electric guitar was the ultimate innovation, the last nail in the coffin of music’s social supremacy. If fresh organic sounds are an endangered ...

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 ...

Covering the upcoming concert by Ballaké Sissoko and Vincent Segal has rekindled my long-time love of the West African kora, the beautiful 21-string harp-lute used by griots, the storytellers who… ...

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 ...

Epochal artists provoke only obscurity or silence during their lifetimes. The interpretation of their art and their contribution begins only after they have departed from the scene. This is proving to ...

Morikeba Kouyate of Senegal performed a 22-string kora Tuesday at the University of New Orleans as part of the music department's 'Meet the Artist' series. The kora, made of a gourd and wood, ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Monks in blue-grey habits lift their hands in supplication before breaking into a chant accompanied by the singsong twang of the kora, a traditional West African harp. It is mid-afternoon prayer in ...

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 ...

This week Rhythm Planet showcases classical African music by kora masters from Senegal, Mali, and Guinea. Many other great kora masters couldn’t be featured today for reasons of time—like Malang ...