A Residency Featuring World renowned Malian musicians Wassa Kouyaté and Balla Kouyaté with Professor Cherif Keita Class visits: October 7-8 Open class: Wednesday, October 9 Time: 6:00 pm Slosberg Hall ...

The Griot Institute has planned a series of opportunities for community members to explore and critically analyze these issues in readings, lectures, music, movements, and discussions. This ...

Griot: A central figure in many West African cultures. Historically, the griot held many functions, including community historian, cultural critic, indigenous artist and collective spokesperson. The ...

The guitar is an integral part of Mali's griot tradition, the cultural practice of storytelling through music. Musicians adapted the guitar to emulate the sounds of traditional string instruments ...

Road documentary that delves into the musical and religious expressions of subSaharan Africa Through Mauritania and Mali the film documents the lives of Dogon griots musicians and instrument ...

Like a contemporary griot, Kaito Winse weaves realities together, from his native village in Burkina Faso to his life in ...

She is a griot, a member of a class of traveling poets, musicians, and storytellers who maintain a tradition of oral history, from Burkina Faso and Mali. (Shmuel Thaler - Santa Cruz Sentinel ...