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Wonderful Music Feb. 11, 15 and 20!

Feb 11: Modlin @ Boatright: Fatoumata Diawara

Feb 15: A Night of Mali Music

Feb 20: From Africa To Appalachia: An Evening with Cheick Hamala Diabte, Sammy Shelor, Danny Knicely and Friends

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February 15: A Night of Mali Music

Fatoumata Diawara                 Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba
At the University of Richmond Camp Concert Hall / Booker Hall of Music on Saturday night, February 15, 2014 at 7:30 pm. Malian singer Fatoumata Diawara has packed a lifetime of experience into her 33 years. Diawara’s career includes stints as a dancer, and a film and stage star before finding her true calling as an unparalleled singer and songwriter. Blending Wassalou traditions of Southern Mali with international influences, Diawara has performed and recorded with Oumou Sangaré, AfroCubism, Dee Dee Bridgewater, and the Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou. (From Richmond's Sister City Segou) Bassekou Kouyate is one of the true masters of the ngoni, an ancient traditional lute found throughout West Africa. Following his celebrated debut album Segu Blue and his Grammy-nominated follow-up I Speak Fula, Kouyate and his band Ngoni ba performed as a headliner in the AfroCubism project and appeared with Sir Paul McCartney, John Paul Jones, Damon Albarn, and many more on the Africa Express tour.

Sponsored in part by the Cultural Affairs Committee.

Related Event: Tuesday, February 11

Modlin @ Boatwright: Fatoumata Diawara

An informal conversation with Malian vocalist and songwriter Fatoumata Diawara. Boatwright Memorial Library hosts the 60-minute session.

Free and open to the public
12:00 pm Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Boatwright Library, 1st floor (campus map) - See more at: http://modlin.richmond.edu/events/modlinarts-presents/mali-music.html#sthash.ya51Ggyz.dpuf

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February 20: From Africa To Appalachia: An Evening with Cheick Hamala Diabte, Sammy Shelor, Danny Knicely and Friends

Thursday, February 20, 2014 from 7:30 - 10:00 pm at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center in Charlottesville, Virginia. Located in C'ville's historic Black neighborhood, Vinager Hill. 
More information email jsaahc@gmail.com and learn more about this recently renovated center at jeffersonschoolheritagecenter.org. 

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