Balla Kouyaté, Mike Block & Friends
11月18日周五
|JQES
Balla Kouyaté, Mike Block & Friends visit our morning program at JQES!
時間和地點
2022年11月18日 08:10
JQES
關於本活動
Malian American artist Balla Kouyaté is part of a long unbroken family line of musicians, praise-singers, and oral historians who celebrate and keep vital the culture of the Malinké people of West Africa. Playing a balafon – the West African antecedent of the xylophone – Kouyaté makes his Celebrity Series debut and shares the stage with boundary-defying cellist Mike Block and other equally daring musical friends.
The six-piece band comes together to create a program of joyous, effervescent music that blends West African beats (courtesy of percussionists Kouyaté , Dembele, and Kone) and vocals with bluegrass, funk, and rock. Block and Kouyaté lead the band in a program that celebrates international sounds and cross-cultural collaboration.
Learn more about the ensemble and their performance on November 19th, which is part of the Celebrity Series of Boston's Neighborhood Arts Global Percussion Series: https://www.celebrityseries.org/productions/balla-kouyate-mike-block-and-friends-bamako-to-boston/