Eight artists to see for free in Laval this week : vimarsana

Born in Budapest and raised in Canada, Sophie Lukacs is a Kora player, singer-songwriter and one of the only women in the world to play the 21-string Mandinka instrument. She has forged a distinctive style, drawing on her classical violin training, her seven years of study in Mali with kora virtuoso Toumani Diabaté and her roots in Hungarian Jewish folk music.

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