Past Event
Saturday, February 15, 2020, 7 p.m.
The Musical Legacy of an African Empire
6811 La Jolla Boulevard, San Diego, 92037
The Center for World Music is happy to present The Musical Legacy of an African Empire: Kora Music from Senegal Featuring Amadou Fall. A native of Senegal, West Africa, Amadou comes from a family of musicians. His father, Mamadou Fall, was a guitarist who performed with well-known Senegalese musicians. Amadou will play the kora, a plucked, 21-stringed instrument made of fishing line, wood, a calabash gourd, and cow hide. It is the largest and most sophisticated member of a family of West African instruments known as harp lutes, and an instrument that Amadou has played for nearly 20 years.