Cooperstown Concerts announced West African kora player Yacouba Sissoko will open its 2024-2025 season at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27 at the Farmers’ Museum at 5775 State Route 80 in Cooperstown.

For Sona Jobarteh, Africa's first woman to play the sacred kora professionally, breaking with tradition has not been easy. At Abidjan's FEMUA urban music festival, which closes in the Ivory Coast ...

Instagram knows me well, and for the past couple of months I've been seeing advertisements for a classical guitarist who ...

Slaves took pentatonic West African Kora music and turned it into the blues. These are just a few samples of how music migrates across cultures and is, in turn, transformed by the journey.

Born in a famous family of "griots" - West African musicians and storytellers - he had been nicknamed "the electronic griot", and was known as a distinguished player of kora - a West African harp.

Singer and virtuoso kora player Wassa Kouyaté will be accompanied by Balla Kouyaté, a virtuoso player of the balafon (West African xylophone). “Oral tradition holds that when the emperor Sundiata ...