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Offstage Live
Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba (Park Event Sold Out)
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
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8:00 pm
Joseph M. Bryan, Jr., Theater in the Museum Park
UPDATE: The public viewing of the concert in real time, live streamed on our amphitheater screen, is now sold out. Tune into the livestream from home via the YouTube link below.
Please note:
• Masks and social distancing are required. The ground will be sectioned for socially distanced groupings.
• No alcohol is permitted; bags will be checked at the gate.
• Attendees are encouraged to bring chairs or blankets.
• Amphitheater screening canceled in the event of rain.
Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba ecstatically explore the spiritual songs, stories, and rhythms of Senegal’s millennia-old Mandé culture. Cissokho comes from a long line of griots who are entrusted to maintain a West African village’s genealogies and ceremonial affairs through song, but he is much more than a preservationist. Cissokho and his band, Kaira Ba, effortlessly integrate the traditional sounds of the kora with a modern rush of electric guitar and an exuberant rhythm section.
The band formed in North Carolina in January 2011, shortly after Cissokho’s immigration to the U.S. Kaira Ba has produced three albums, toured extensively in the U.S., and traveled twice as a band to Senegal. In 2014 the band was nominated for the All Africa Music Award for its album The Great Peace. In 2018 Kaira Ba released its most ambitious album to date, Routes, which was recorded in both North Carolina and Senegal. Rock critic Robert Christgau wrote that the album “is up there with the groundbreaking recordings of Thione Seck, Baaba Maal, and Youssou N’Dour.”
Join us as Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba perform virtually from the North Carolina Museum of Art!
Livestream will be available through this YouTube link starting October 20 at 8 pm:
Support the band by purchasing an album.
Presented with:
Offstage Live
We’re going offstage and into the galleries with music at the Museum! Presented with Come Hear North Carolina, this series showcases a diversity of North Carolina bands that represent our state’s rich musical landscape. These free live-streamed concerts kick off September 1 and will also be broadcast on UNC-TV in the coming months.
EVENTS IN THIS SERIES:
- Chatham County Line - Tuesday, September 1 | 8 PM
- Dreamroot - Tuesday, September 15 | 8 PM
- S.E. Ward - Tuesday, September 29 | 8 PM
- Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba (Park Event Sold Out) - Tuesday, October 20 | 8 PM
