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During Black History Month we will be hearing from many Black artists, including a 3-part look at Burkinabé musician Baba Commandant (stage name for Mamadou Sanou). Baba Commandant was a singer and donso ngoni player. The donso ngoni is a 6-string harp, superficially similar to the kora, traditionally played by hunter societies in Wassoulou and Mandingo cultures in West Africa: Mali, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, and Guinea. Baba Commandant had his own band which played a unique style fusing Afro...

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You can catch them at Third Man Records Cass Corridor on Saturday

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This year's Lotus World Music & Arts Festival begins Sept. 13 with most events happening Sept. 28-Oct. 1.

TaxiCab Verses, a staggering collective of Athens, GA and Ghana based musicians, will re-release its one and only studio LP, Is What You Make It via the New West Records imprint Strolling Bones Records on October 20. Led by Athens’ own Jim Wilson, TaxiCab Verses was first formed in collaboration with Ghanaian outfit Kofi Atentenben and the Warriors over the course of three separate trips to West Africa.

Checking in with Hisham Mayet, Sublime Frequencies co-founder and the band’s representative, ahead of their show

Fresh off their European Tour, Mourning [a] BLKStar shared the Beachland Tavern stage with Baba Commandant and The Mandingo Band —- a group hailing from Burkina Faso. Towards the end of the show, the two bands joined forces. Here's what we saw.

Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band (Burkina Faso, Africa) Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band are a contemporary world music group from Burkina Faso, with a trademark fusion of Mandingue and afro-beat styles. The Mandingo Band are a hit machine, sculpting seven new tracks of near Beefheart/Magic Band dynamics, Fela inspired groovers dusted out in the Sahel zone, creating one of the most original and propulsive musical statements to come from the contemporary West African cultural juggernaut...