When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. ACOUSTIC EXPO 2014: Much more than just a singer/guitarist, Jon Gomm is passionate about the ...

Master West African kamale ngoni player Mamadou Sidibe and fingerstyle guitar wizard Walter Strauss create deep, soulful music that is simultaneously ancient and fresh. They create an intoxicating ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “What if Ali Farka were to die?” sings Oumou Sangaré on a microphone check. It is 1995, and the musician has ...

Wow! I have spent the last three days listening to about one hour and ten minutes of Louis Mhlanga’s (pictured) latest 19 track double CD album titled Living for The Living, which features what he ...

The late Malian singer and guitarist Ali Farka Toure took his music on the road, travelling from his beloved farm in Niafunke, in northwestern Mali, to thrill audiences around the globe, until his ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - On Thursday night, June 20, the Beachland Ballroom will welcome Mdou Moctar, the band and the singer-songwriter and guitarist who has been referred to as the “Hendrix of the Sahara.” ...

Staging benefit concerts and adopting babies are great, but musician Leni Stern has her own way of spreading the vibration of Africa: She has become an African. The people of Mali have even given the ...

Over about a decade of touring in the West, Moctar, 40, has carved out a niche as a modern African guitar hero and one of the very few voices in the pop world calling attention to the struggles of the ...

As a youngster growing up in Guinea, West Africa, Alpha Yaya Diallo took in a lot of culture. His traveled around the country with his father, an in-demand doctor, and was exposed to musical ...