Sue Krogsgaard has been to Africa many times before, but she never got the chance to play a balafon until she was home in Regina. “(My husband, Richard, and I) love African music. We love the drumming ...

For the first time, an association was officially established, on Wednesday 30th March, 2005, to promote the balafon, a musical instrument played in several regions of the world, notably in Africa, ...

First new artist release through Chrysalis Global, an imprint of Chrysalis Records Produced by an A-list team: Dudu Sarr, Lucy Durán + Pape Armand Boye “Three outstanding Malian and Guinean griots….

Aly Keïta is testament to the adage of an apple not falling far from a tree. Brought up in a family of griot musicians, the award-winning Ivorian grand master of the balafon could not resist adopting ...

The balafon, a musical instrument from West Africa, is being considered for inclusion on Unesco's Intangible Cultural Heritage list. The instrument is built up from 17 to 21 wooden slats on top of two ...

Children in the Balafon West African Dance Ensemble perform in 2016. The organization, founded by Kadiatou Conte-Forte, was West African dance is bringing rhythm to Pittsburgh’s East End. Kadiatou ...

Côte d’Ivoire’s Aly Keïta returns to South Africa for the Moshito Music Conference. Audiences are in for a treat At the 2009 annual Bushfire Music Festival in Swaziland I witnessed one of the finest ...

NEARLY 800 YEARS AGO, Sundiata Keita founded the largest and greatest kingdom in West African history: the Mali Empire. At its height, around 1300, it stretched for some 2,000 kilometers west to east, ...

Uncommonly worldly, Trio Ivoire is also blessedly free of 'world music' clichés. On Across The Oceans German pianist Hans Lüdemann, West African balafon virtuoso Aly Keita & Dutch/Indian/South ...

With the continuing flood of current releases in creative improvised music, it’s sometimes easy to overlook artists who rarely receive or accept the opportunity to record. Mallet-maestro Khan Jamal is ...