Bassekou Kouyate

Big Ears adds Beth Orton, Sun Ra Arkestra, Kae Tempest, and more to 2023 lineup

Big Ears’ 2023 lineup additions also include Morton Subotnick (Silver Apples), Rude Ruth (Margaret Glaspy & Julian Lage Trio), Combo Chimbita, and more. The festival runs March 30- April 2 in Knoxville, TN.

tours announced: Spiritual Cramp, Dark Thoughts, SRSQ, DJ Koze & more

Plus: Bassekou Kouyate & Habib Koite, This is Not This Heat, Dysrhythmia/Pyrrhon/Cleric, Ensiferum and more tour news.

Montreal International Jazz Festival 2017 lineup (Bob Dylan, Feist, King Crimson, more)

The indoor, ticketed lineup for the 38th Montreal International Jazz Festival also includes Buddy Guy, Joey Bada$$, Robert Glasper, Tanya Tagaq, Xenia Rubinos, and many more.

The Quietus' Top 100 Albums of 2015

If you’re sick of seeing the same names atop every publication’s year-end list, you can always count on The Quietus to deliver something almost completely different…

BAM R&B Fest 2015 free Brooklyn daytime Metrotech concert lineup: George Clinton/P-Funk, King Sunny Ade, Al B. Sure! & more

BAM’s annual summer R&B Festival which happens Thursdays at noon – 2 PM at MetroTech Commons at MetroTech Center from June 4 – August 6 (corner of Flatbush and Myrtle Aves in Brooklyn)…

Lincoln Center's White Light Festival returns -- 2011 schedule includes live movie score by Adrian Utley & Will Gregory

The White Light Festival is an annual exploration of music’s power to illuminate our interior lives. From the powerful opening chords of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis to an exploration of light itself, to a meditation, Peter Sellars, and Rokia Traoré on the darkness of the soul that leads to the transcendence of love, the White Light Festival offers experiences of passionate beauty and occasions of profound insight into the many dimensions of our individual selves and the collective shared forces of the human condition…

Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba - 2010 Tour Dates (Central Park Summerstage), album on Sub Pop's Next Ambiance (MP3)

DOWNLOAD: Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni ba – Musow (MP3) Malian musician Bassekou Kouyate is a master of the , a small stringed instrument that’s something of a cross between a lute, a mandolin and a banjo…

Tinariwen win an award, announce tour dates ++ upcoming King Sunny Ade, Rokia Traore & Bassekou Kouyate shows too

Tinariwen @ (Le) Poisson Rouge in April (more by Tim Griffin) Malian band Tinariwen recently won the 2009 Uncut Music Award for best album (given and then play a rare Brooklyn show (their first…