kora

• “Mr. DIABATE: Yes, the kora was a gift from God to me.”

  NPR: Bela Fleck And Toumani Diabate: Banjo Roots

• “SESAY: Diabate says the kora is a fixture in its family going back generations.”

  CNN Transcript Jul 4, 2009

• “He's a Senegalese griot who plays the kora, which is basically a harp made from a honkin' big calabash with a stick rammed through it.”

  Music, Ho Ho

• “(A kora is a 21-string harp-like instrument that creates a defining African sound.)”

  Showtime in the Sahara

• “The rest of the concert was explicitly about the harp, and pre-eminently the Malian harp-lute known as the kora.”

  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed

• “The kora is a 21-string harp with a large, resonating gourd as its base.”

  Baltimore City Paper

• “The kora is a demanding instrument, consisting of two parallel rows of strings attached to a notched bridge on a resonating gourd, and Djeli's confident command of it is the result of a lifetime of study and practice.”

  WeLove-music

• “Artists ranging from Ry Cooder to Björk to Blur's Damon Albarn have trekked there to collaborate with such iconic international stars as singer Salif Keita, kora master-musician Toumani Diabaté and the late blues-tinged guitarist Ali Farka Touré.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Garden Grunge, Animals in the Park

• “The kora can be accessible in many different contexts.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Warm Up to a Meeting of Two Classical Minds

• “Getty Images Ballak é Sissoko, a Mali kora player, and French cellist Vincent Segal But not every act performing on the venue's three stages emphasizes hot, polyrhythmic dance numbers.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Warm Up to a Meeting of Two Classical Minds

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