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Baaba Maal: Tales from the Sahel at RNCM, Theatre
Courtesy of Gemma Salmon | Posted on March 7, 2011
Where
RNCM, Theatre
124 Oxford Road
Manchester
Map
0161 907 5200
When
Sat, March 19, 2011
19.30
At Door
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Musicians
Baaba Maal
guitar and vocalsAbout
‘African music is at the start of a new era.
We have to open ourselves to the currents
flowing elsewhere, without losing our ancestry.’
Baaba Maal
If anyone personifies the new Africa, with its
need to balance the demands of modernism
and tradition, it is the elegant Senegalese
singer, Baaba Maal. An imperious figure with an
intellectual and spiritual cast that contradicts
his wild stage dancing, Maal’s status across
West Africa is somewhere between Dylan and
Marley; simultaneously folk hero, pop star and
social conscience....