Bassekou Kouyate

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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.

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'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)...

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 lead…

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 @ (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...