This week we feature some great music from Malian father and son duo Toumani and Sidiki Diabate and Rokia Traoré. The Diabates were supposed to have a show with Traoré tonight on Friday 9/26 to UCLA’s ...

Following the reissue of Toumani Diabaté and Ballaké Sissoko’s New Ancient Strings, in January Chrysalis will release Diabaté’s debut album, 1988’s Kaira. Toumani Diabaté, who sadly passed away in ...

The miracle of opposable thumbs and 700 years of continuous musical tradition came together for an evening of magic when father-and-son Malian kora players Toumani and Sidiki Diabate performed a ...

We are family: Toumani and Sidiki Diabaté at their home in Kora Credit: Photo: Youri Lenquette Malian kora virtuoso Toumani Diabaté is one of the world’s most creative and personally formidable ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Toumani Diabate comes on the line from his Paris hotel. "Bonjour, Toumani," I open, in my lame schoolboy French. He fires back in a ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Toumani Diabate comes on the line from his Paris hotel. "Bonjour, Toumani," I open, in my lame schoolboy French. He fires back in a ...

Toumani Diabaté is widely considered to be the greatest living kora player, and for almost three decades he's been bringing the rich musical heritage of Mali and West Africa to audiences around the ...

Toumani, often credited as the world’s greatest exponent of the kora, the West African harp-lute, is touring for the first time with his son Sidiki, who apart from inheriting his family’s dynastic ...

Toumani Diabaté has collaborated with the likes of Herbie Hancock, Damon Albarn, Taj Mahal, Ali Farka Touré and Björk during a career that has spanned decades. Now the Malian kora player teams with ...

An interview with actor Robert Lindsay; a review of Netflix show Orange is the New Black; an interview with father and son kora stars Toumani and Sidiki Diabaté; Foundling Museum. Show more As Dirty ...

I guess since you’ve landed here you’re expecting to read some sort of review of Toumani and Sidiki Diabaté’s show at the Barbican tonight. The thing is, I’m kind of struggling. For while the Oxford ...