Growing up in the West African country of Mali, Bassekou Kouyate recalls the tradition of the Ngoni running through the veins of his culture since he was a child. An instrument dating back nearly ...

Aziz Sahmaoui is a virtuoso of the stringed instrument known as the gimbri — the main sound of the North African trance music known as gnawa. He’s also pretty darn good at playing the ngoni, a lute ...

Malian musician Bassekou Kouyate is a master of the the ngoni, and in his hands this very ancient fretless lute has all of the colour and versatility of any modern stringed instrument. He first picked ...

Guitars and ngonis are just two of the stringed instruments being showcased this weekend at the Savannah Music Festival. Bassekou Kouyate, a musician from Mali, plays a traditional West African lute ...

From the moment he picked up the ngoni (a stringed lute popular in Mali) at age 12, Bassekou Kouyate was destined for greatness. Originally from Garana, he moved to the capital Bamako in the late ...

A recent Monday, 12:33 p.m.: Wherever Yacouba Diarra plays his music, he says, he is home. Which is why, despite being born into the Bouaba tribe in the West African nation of Burkina Faso, he's ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Bassekou Kouyate, descended from a long ...

Except for serious world music buffs, most people couldn’t tell you what a kora is. It happens to be a 21-stringed harplike instrument from West Africa, and when Marin fingerstyle guitarist Walter ...