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Courtesy of Cami B | Posted on January 5, 2011
When
Mon, March 21, 2011
8pm
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Musicians
Baaba Maal
guitar and vocalsAbout
“African music is at the start of a new era. We have to open ourselves to the currents flowing elsewhere, without losing our ancestry.” Baaba Maal
If anyone personifies the new Africa, with its need to balance the demands of modernism and tradition, it’s elegant Senegalese singer, Baaba Maal. An imperious figure with an intellectual and spiritual cast that contradicts his wild stage dancing, Maal’s status across West Africa is somewhere between Dylan and Marley; simultaneously folk hero, pop star and social conscience.
The vision extends beyond music. Rooted in a desire for African empowerment, enlightenment and unity, Maal embodies a widespread ongoing endeavour for global peace....