“How come we’ve never heard of this beautiful instrument until now?” This was posted by a first-year college student to my world music course discussion board recently. He voiced what many of his ...

Renowned Mali musician Ballaké Sissoko claimed today that US Customs in New York "completely destroyed" his custom-made kora, the West African instrument with which he performs. "The kora is a fragile ...

When Malian master musician Ballaké Sissoko opened the case to his kora, a traditional and delicate 21-string instrument, after an early February flight from New York to Paris, he was devastated by ...

mhm. The kora is made of a big gord. Um and that's just half of it. So it would have been basically a sphere. You can't grow one like that around here. This one came from Mali West Africa, John Hughes ...

We're adapting the way the kora and the oud are played...using contemporary choices within traditional forms. Seattle's Kane Mathis is one of the world's leading performers on the kora, the ...

Musician Sean Gaskell will give two performances and presentations on the kora, a 21-stringed harp from West Africa, in February in the Inland Empire. The first is 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 1, in the ...

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 city ...

A renowned Malian musician said when he came back to Paris on Monday from a concert tour in the United States, he opened the case to his kora and found the instrument in pieces. The musician, Ballake ...