For all the riches and diverse avenues of music making their way through Santa Barbara on this year’s concert calendar, sounds from outside the Western world — so-called “world music” — have been all ...

Habib Koite was planning to be an engineer. But music got its teeth in him and wouldn't let him go. "Life made me a musician," the prominent singer and guitarist from Mali said Wednesday, with ...

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Habiba Koité & BamadaHighline BallroomNew York, New YorkMarch 16, 2010Many shows at the Highline Ballroom are general admission, but the venue will change things up for certain shows by putting in ...

HABIB KOITE says that nobody taught him to sing or play guitar. It just 'washed off on him'. Then again, the Malian musician comes from a long line of griots (traditional musicians) and while he makes ...

A gathering of some of Mali's most popular musicians, some known internationally and some just famous locally, in the town of Segou on the banks of the Niger River. Lucy Duran introduces music from ...