The kora is a West African harp with 21 strings and a large calabash gourd body. According to Eric Charry, a historian of West African music, the instrument originated in the late 18th century, during ...

Diabaté was widely recognised as the greatest kora musician of his generation. His effortless, calm and dignified strumming of the kora to produce enchanting and blues-like sounds that stay with the ...

Tonight, we want to introduce you to a musician named Sona Jobarteh, who introduced us to the beautiful sound and story of a centuries-old instrument called the kora. It's a string instrument from ...

The music of West Africa will fill Franklin & Marshall College's Barshinger Center Friday when Mamadou Diabate performs on the kora, in the first Sound Horizons concert of the year. The series brings ...

Sona Jobarteh. Photo by Tony Rath, courtesy of the artist. In many West African cultures, griots serve as communal memory banks, transmitting a people’s history, rituals, folklore and values from ...

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 ...

He believed that music could transcend national borders set by colonialism and restore ancient ties, even as it embraced the changes of a globalizing society. By Giovanni Russonello Toumani Diabaté, a ...

The 21-string kora is West Africa’s traditional harp lute. It is part of West African musical history in Senegal, Guinea, Mali, and other countries. It is a beautiful hand-crafted instrument: a large ...

The world has lost a significant musical ambassador for the Mande people of west Africa – the virtuoso kora player, composer, and collaborator from Mali, Toumani Diabaté. He died on 19 July, just ...

Lovers of traditional African music, especially kora music, will sorely miss him. Diabaté was widely recognised as the greatest kora musician of his generation. His effortless, calm and dignified ...