July 26, 2018 7:00-9:00PM Sidi Touré at Abington Art Center

The Abington Art Center & The Lucky Goat are please to present our 2nd Annual World Music series.

Week five July 26, 2018: Sidi Toure.

When Malian songwriter and guitarist Sidi Touréfirst emerged on the international scene in 2011, he was regularly compared toAli Farka Touré, his countryman and predecessor.

There was a similarity in means, sound and even surnames, and both musicians hail from the Songhaï region of Northern Mali. The signature blues-inflected guitar and plaintive vocal melisma of Songhaï folk music carries melodic and repertory characteristics that extend from Ibrahim Dicko—Touré’s mentor—to Ali Fakra Touré’s pioneeringwork. Over the course of two recordings—last year’s critically-lauded Koïma and his revelatory debut Sahel Folk—andattention from NPR, SPIN and Pitchfork, among others, Touré’s musical identity has fully come into its own.Abington Art Center 
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