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10/03/2023
Amadou & Mariam x Glastonbury Festival 2023
06/03/2023
29/12/2022
Roberto Fonseca Trio - Live at Cosmo Jazz Festival
With its free sets nestled in the heights of Chamonix, the Cosmo Jazz Festival is on the way to becoming one of the most beautiful in France. Organized by André Manoukian and Charles Vetter, this family-friendly summer program is complemented by a varied line-up of quality. After a memorable performance by bassist Kyle Eastwood in 2021, the event returns in 2022 with the brilliant Roberto Fonseca. Originally from Cuba, the pianist has compiled an interesting discography (we remember a beautiful session with Fatoumata Diawara in Marciac) where Afro-American, Latin, but also classical influences are merged.
This fascinating repertoire reveals the richness of the musical heritage of the great Caribbean island. Surrounded by Yandi Martinez on (double)bass and Ruly Herrera on drums, the native of Havana delivers his share of skillful pieces like "Lluvia" and "Aggua," and shares his science of rhythm as induced by the heady "Mambo Pa La Niña" and its solar bursts of music. Captured on the Planpraz site, a belvedere facing Mont Blanc, this film is punctuated by breathtaking views. An obvious phenomenon when listening to "No Soy De Esos," a celestial theme to say the least, and peak of this very singular concert… Watch now on Qwest TV.
29/12/2022
With the shamanic charisma, good humor and contagious joy that characterize her, Fatoumata Diawara surrounds herself with exceptional artists and initiates unexpected encounters during this exclusive show specially created for France Télévisions. Yemi Alade, Arthur H, Roberto Fonseca, Amadou & Mariam and Barbara Pravi share the Hermitage stage with this great voice of Africa that crosses borders. Watch now Fatoumata's performance of Sowa with her good friend Roberto Fonseca.
27/12/2022
She is one of the greatest voices in modern Africa. Fatoumata Diawara will be in concert at the Ancienne Belgique on May 31 at 8:00 p.m. Malian singer, actress and songwriter, Fatoumata Diawara fuses jazz and funk with playful folk, never straying from her Malian roots, evoking themes of respect, love, exile and peace.
15/12/2022
The Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, guitarist, actress and activist has long embraced modernity as well as tradition, splicing an edgy rock aesthetic into the pentatonic melodies and sensuous, raspy tones of Bambara music. Hugely charismatic, Diawara has played major festivals including Glastonbury, worked with the likes of Gorillaz, Herbie Hancock and Cuban jazz pianist Roberto Fonseca and formed a super group of Malian artists to record a song calling for peace in her troubled West African homeland.
This new show MALIBA, counted with a successful debut at the Norwegian Opera House during this month’s Oslo World festival, gathers Diawara’s guitars-keys-drums line-up augmented by a string quartet and a hip-swivelling Latin horn trio whose improvised solos and passages of call-and-response with the band kept the jazz-rock vibes at a premium.
02/12/2022
International Jazz Plaza Festival
The 38th edition of the International Jazz Plaza Festival will take place in January 2023. Havana and Santiago de Cuba will be the sites of a great musical celebration that will bring together prestigious Cuban and foreign artists in the Greater Antilles in the free spirit of jazz. The event will take place from January 22 to 29, 2023, according to its organizers, on the occasion of the presentation of the poster representing the event.
01/12/2022
Object of Sound - Fatoumata Diawara
In Mali, where Fatoumata Diawara was raised, it is common for women to sing, but much rarer for women to play an instrument. As a result, Fatoumata—who is one of the first, if not the first woman guitarist in all of Mali—has developed a self-taught, intuitive guitar playing style that is entirely her own. “This way of playing, it's me,” says Fatoumata. “It represents my fight as a musician, as an African, and as a lady on stage.” In this episode of Object of Sound, Fatoumata talks to Hanif about how she discovered her calling as a musician, and the exciting ways that she is fusing the traditional music of her homeland with Western influences on her third studio album, out next year. Hanif closes the episode with a selection of blues and folk music from Mali. For the playlist of songs curated for this episode, head over to radio.sonos.com.
01/12/2022
You and the Night and the Jazz
You & The Night & The Music 2022 is back! Here is the complete list of all the artists who will participate on December 12, Salle Pleyel, in our big annual evening with ADAMI, and the support of SACEM and Banque Postale. This new edition will have as guest of honor the harmonicist Jean-Jacques Milteau, and as ceremonial orchestra The Amazing Keystone Big-Band. Yuri Buenaventura & pianist Roberto Fonseca join the adventure. As well as, on the voice side, China Moses, Anthony Strong and Judith Owen. The saxophonists Eli Degibri and Laurent Bardainne, the trumpeter Ludovic Louis and the English from Kansas Smitty's led by Giacomo Smith, will also be by our side.
Learn more here.
15/11/2022
Fatoumata Diawara – “Nsera” (Feat. Damon Albarn)
Malian singer, songwriter, guitarist and actress Fatoumata Diawara has worked with Damon Albarn in the ensembles Africa Express and Rocket Juice & The Moon. Today she welcomes the Blur and Gorillaz leader onto her new single “Nsera,” a title that means “destination” in her native Bambara. The song’s syncopated, synth-powered groove and bright, joyous melody will probably appeal to fans of LCD Soundsystem, Ibibio Sound Machine, and even bands with names that don’t fit that general pattern. Watch director Gregory Ohrel’s video for “Nsera” here.
14/11/2022
African Entertainment Awards, USA
Fatoumata Diawara has been nominated for the Africa Entertainment Awards (AEAUSA) 2022 edition where she will be locking horns with global stars.
10/11/2022
Alternatilla Jazz Festival 2022 presents a brilliant and unprecedented multinational quartet in its second ménage à jazz concert. The protagonists of this special formation come from latitudes as far away as Cuba, Sweden or Catalonia. Four musicians with a high interpretive level and different nationalities in perfect understanding and musical twinning, demonstrating the power of jazz to eliminate borders and further proof that music is a universal language that unites.
The Catalan trumpeter Andrea Motis, the Cuban pianist Roberto Fonseca, the double bassist and bassist Yandy Matinez and the Cuban percussionist, resident in Mallorca, Nailé Sosa, are four great jazz players who compete in creativity and instrumental solvency, they are all united by a passion for music. and they will be able to stage an original plural musical conversation, fluent and elegantly interpreted, with a solid technique that reflects the cultural and sound background of each one. Learn more here.
02/10/2022
Fatoumata Diawara releases TAKAMBA
Boldly experimental yet respectful of her roots, FENFO is a record that defines Fatoumata Diawara as the voice of young African womanhood – proud of her heritage but with a vision that looks confidently to the future and a message that is universal. Watch now TAKAMBA, the latest video of the Malian start Fatoumata Diawara.
20/09/2022
Amadou & Mariam reinterpret the legendary Serge Gainsbourg
France Télévisions, Sourdoreille Production and FIP are continuing their joint musical adventure with the ambition of creating encounters between electronic music and popular music. On 6 October, at the Théâtre du Châtelet, the two Israeli DJs of Red Axes will play Serge Gainsbourg's music with Amadou & Mariam.
08/08/2022
Fatoumata Diawara on tour with Gorillaz
After a triumphant return to the stage last summer with a sell-out show at London's O2 Arena and a free concert for NHS workers, virtual band Gorillaz are back and bigger than ever. With a slew of major festival headline appearances across USA in 2022, it's time to get see the dates that Malian singer Fatoumata Diawara will join the band. Fatoumata Diawara brings something completely different to Gorillaz, as they fuse their production with Diawara’s Wassoulou and African blues.
04/07/2022
There are only two months left for the premiere of La Gran Diversión, a special concert that will be presented exclusively at the Jazz à Villette Festival on September 3. A musical party, where there will be dancing and the best Cuban music. You can buy your tickets by clicking on this link.
28/06/2022
One of the finest, most inventive female singers in Mali. Fatoumata Diawara has just announced new dates of her 2022-2023 World Tour.
27/06/2022
13/06/2022
Fatoumata Diawara Open Act at Nîmes Festival
Malian singer Fatoumata Diawara will be the opening act at the long-awaited concert of the British band Gorillaz at the Festival de Nîmes.
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