Toumani Diabate

The kora is a chordophone string instrument from Mali. Watch this video of Toumani Diabate playing:



March 25, 2008 — This performance of 'Cantelowes' is from the recent live World Premiere of "The Mandé Variations" at the prestigious El Real Alcazar de Sevilla in Spain which left the audience spellbound and was described by the The Independent as "a performance that surpasses anything....for sheer scale of ambition and technical achievement."

Read an interview with Toumani Diabate and see another video at this web page.