[Wadabo_updates] Music of West Africa this weekend

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Dear African Dance & Music Community

Two great opportunities on Saturday night to witness the exquisite music of
West Africa:

1 - Toumani Diabate @ Somerville Theatre
2 - Boubacar Diabate & SambaLolo @ Matt Murphy's
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1 - From West Africa*
TOUMANI DIABATÉ'S SYMMETRIC ORCHESTRA
Saturday, February 2, 8pm | Somerville Theatre - 55 Davis Sq.
Reserved Seating: $35, $28 - www.WorldMusic.org for tickets & info.*

Regarded by many as the greatest kora player on the planet, Toumani Diabaté
is simultaneously revered as the guardian of traditional African music and
as its bold, boundary-crossing innovator. His Symmetric Orchestra captures
this careful balance between tradition and innovation, youth and maturity,
electric and acoustic. The exhilarating band includes musicians from Mali,
Senegal, Guinea and Ivory Coast and features the soaring vocals of the great
Malian Kassé Mady Diabaté, Boubacar Diabaté on *djembe* drum, Lassana
Diabaté on *balafon* (traditional xylophone), Ganda Tounkara on the *dry*,
deserty *ngoni* lute and Fanta Mady Kouyate on electric guitar.

2 - Our own local band, originally from Mali, West Africa*
BOUBACAR DIABATÉ & SAMBALOLO
Saturday, February 2, 11pm | Matt Murphy's Pub - 14 Harvard St Brookline, No
cover, Music starts at 11pm, Food until 10pm -
www.MattMurphysPub.com
*
SambaLolo, featuring Boubacar Diabate, West African Griot from Mali,
combines traditional rhythms with modern influences to form a unique style
of contemporary Malian Griot music. Singing in Bambara, Diabate tells
stories of common shared human experiences such as of love, life and
humanity. Through the age-old West African tradition of Griot
storytelling, Diabate
brings the audience on a musical journey that is embellished with accents of
Jazz, Blues and Reggae. For more information about Boubacar Diabate and
SambaLolo visit
www.myspace.com/sambalolo
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