Venue: Zellerbach Hall

Price: $18/$24/$30

Subscription Series: Winter/Spring Series

"First there was Hendrix, then Stevie Ray and now, Habib," says singer Bonnie Raitt, just one of the Malian guitar virtuoso's growing legion of fans in the West. Since the release of his 1998 album Ma Ya, which spent an unprecedented three months on Europe's World Music charts, Koité has grown from being one of Africa's best-kept secrets to one of the leading figures in contemporary world music. Born into an 800-year-old line of griots (the official praise-singers and musician-historians central to West African musical culture), Koité is a lifelong student of Malian traditional music, committed to preserving and protecting his culture's diverse and timeless musical styles. Stunningly beautiful and jubilant, Koité's unadorned acoustic arrangements incorporate Western grooves into centuries-old Malian melodies, perhaps the most soulful body of music in all of Africa.

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www.putumayo.com/cd/habibkoite/habibhome.htm