The last album of kora duets Toumani Diabaté played on was New Ancient Strings in 1997 on which he played with Ballaké Sissoko. The pair’s fathers were Sidiki Diabaté and Djelimadi Sissoko – the kora ...

Sidiki Conde's music is as compelling as his life story. Born in Guinea West Africa, at the age of 14, he lost the use of his legs as the result of polio. Yet in spite of obstacles (physical, cultural ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Some 26 years after Toumani Diabaté’s Royal Festival Hall debut, accompanying his father, the legendary kora player ...

The miracle of opposable thumbs and 700 years of continuous musical tradition came together for an evening of magic when father-and-son Malian kora players Toumani and Sidiki Diabate performed a ...

At the speakeasy in Dalston, London, Hannah Allchurch had the pleasure of interviewing and listening to the talented multi-instrumentalist Sidiki Dembélé, accompanied by Aboubakar Konate and Momo ...

Toumani Diabaté, the most famous exponent of that majestic west African instrument, the kora, can trace his griot musical ancestry back 71 generations. Now he brings in the 72nd – his son Sidiki (who, ...