Slim's (Venue Partner)
333 11th St
415.255.0333
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Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba on March 18
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Thursday Mar 18, 2010 (8pm)
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- Price
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$20 - 25
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A virtuoso picker and musical visionary whose work blurs the lines between West African and American roots music, Bassekou Kouyate has jammed with Bonnie Raitt and Bono and won praise from Eric Clapton. His instrument of choice, the ngoni, is a "spike lute" and an ancestor of the banjo, sharing its taut-skinned drum body, percussive attack, and varied picking techniques. Since 2005, Kouyate has led Ngoni Ba, the first-ever group built around not one but four ngonis - all played by members of his family.
