Kakande Kwanzaa Concert:

Roots West African Melodies

lead by Griot Famoro Dioubate of Guinea.

Thursday December 28th, 8 PM

at the Underground Railroad Safehouses at 227 Duffield St. between Fulton and Willoughby (the Brooklyn historical site recently saved from developers by Bill Batson).

From Fula Flute net:

Famoro Dioubate was born in 1965 in Conakry, Guinea to a griot family. He is the grandson of El Hadj Djelli Sory Kouyate, a living legend of the Mandeng balafon. During his teens he spent a five years in Abidjan and worked with Cheik Smith-Sherif and Sekou Camara Cobra. Back in Conakry he co-founded "Les Heritiers" with Sekouba Kandia Kouyate and recorded the albums "Kandia Dinke" and "Nyoumekela" with this group. Concurrently, he was the understudy of his grandfather in the Ensemble Instrumental National and routinely performed for the President and visiting foreign dignitaries. He was a member of Mory Kante's orchestra for the performances and recording of the "Traditional Symphonie." In the early nineties, he was a member of the "Groupe Standard" which accompanied most of the visiting great stars of African music in Guinea. In the United States since the late nineties, he has worked as a free-lance musician for a variety of groups and dance companies in performances and recordings.

Famoro is teaming up with local Brooklyn activist, musician, and recent pain the ass for the ESDC, Raul Rothblatt for this concert in Brooklyn.