THEATRECONCERT
Mandékalou |
Written 30 January |
Saturday 14 February, 20:00Cité de la Musique, 75019 [map]
At the end of 2003, under the impetus of producer Ibraham Sylla, the current greatest Malian and Guinean griots (
Kassé Mady Diabaté,
Sekouba Bambino Diabaté,
Kandia Kouyaté, Kerfala Kanté,
Bako Dagnon) were brought together in a recording studio in Bamako, capital of Mali to record Mandékalou (
Mandingue people), a hymn to the legendary Mandingo empire which, in the 13th century, stretched from Mauritania to the Ivory Coast. These artists will be performing for the first time on a French stage and will be singing of the past greatness of West Africa in the Middle Ages. Sons and daughters of griots, these bards, of which the caste was to the service of the king, were and still remain today the chroniclers of daily life and the bearers of ancestral history.
