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Tickets - https://dice.fm/event/pyby3w-manding-melody-featuring-habib-koite-sura-susso-1st-nov-rich-mix-london-tickets?lng=enSoulful vocals, shimmering kora melodies and complex rhythmic Malian guitar in
this special collaboration.
An innovative and refreshing approach to creativity that will take listeners and
audiences on a journey through West Africa, grounded with traditions full of joyful melodic
vibes in a setting celebrating friendship and culture.
Manding Melody features Mali’s redoubtable troubadour and guitarist Habib Koite and
the charismatic Gambian kora maestro and singer Sura Susso, presenting their newly
recorded intergenerational, cross-cultural project which celebrates the powerful ‘griot’
narratives of traditional Manding folk tales and stories, told through modern musical
styles.
West Africa’s griots (in Mandinka language known as Jeli) are traditional storytellers,
poets, historians, musicians, and praise singers. They maintain and share traditions,
cultural heritage, values and history. They originated in the 13th century within the
Mande Empire of Mali. Since then, the oral tradition has been handed down through
specific Manding griot families (in Mali, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea) of which both Sura
and Habib were born into.
Traditional instruments used by griots include the kora, balafon and ngoni.
Manding Melody highlights some of these instruments, intertwined with contemporary musical
instruments and styles. The result is a blend that refreshes and revives ancient stories
and musical traditions.
This is an 18+ event
Presented by Yaram Arts and African Night Fever
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Event venue
Rich Mix London, 49 Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 7GR, United Kingdom
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