Zal Sissokho + Fabrice Koffy

July 22, 2011 - 07:40 PM

Price: FREE

PARTERRE DU QUARTIER DES SPECTACLES - Agor'Afrique Loto-Québec

H2X 1Z6

Description of the concert:

From the Griot to the Slam

Zal Sisskho and Fabrice Koffy improvise to make you discover the oral tradition.

 

Zal Idrissa Sissokho (Senegal, Quebec)

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Biography of the artist:

One of his ancestors was the first kora player in history, and his brother, Younoussa, became the first griot to settle in Quebec, in the 1980s. In Senegal, the Sissokho family are among the greatest representatives of the griots, who have conveyed the history of the Mandinka people orally for centuries. In short, Zal Idrissa Sissokho was predestined to sing and play the kora.Born in Senegal, ...