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N’FAMADY KOUYATE balafon & GASPER NALI babatoni
July 12, 2023 @ 7:45 pm - 9:45 pm
Price: £18
Venue: The Hub at St Mary’s
SOLD OUT – to join our waiting list for this event, please email boxoffice@lichfieldfestival.org
A double-bill of African music featuring the sublime talents of two top musicians from Guinea and Malawi.
N’famady Kouyaté is a young master musician whose primary instrument is the balafon – a traditional wooden xylophone, sacred to West African culture – and his arrangements are a fusion of Mandingue African and western European jazz, pop, indie and funk influences provided by an ever-evolving collective of musicians.
Gasper Nali above is a roots one-man-band from the shores of Lake Malawi. He plays a one-string home-made 3-metre long babatoni bass guitar with a stick and an empty beer bottle, and together with a cow skin kick drum and catchy melodies, he creates the most amazing music imaginable. His unique style of Kwela music has received an extraordinary amount of online attention and he has featured on music shows across the world (including BBC6) as well as various documentaries for stations including CNN.
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