Baaba Maal and Ali Farka Toure, Live Acoustic

Aired January 10, 2008

Senegalese superstar Baaba Maal and his longtime musical companion Mansour Seck (both inductees into the Afropop Hall of Fame) perform an absolutely sublime set at the Hackney Ballroom in London. Grammy Award-winner Ali Farka Toure, rest in peace, takes the stage at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival with a set that evokes his beloved northern Mali. This program is dedicated to the memory of the one and only Ali Farka Toure who, sadly, passed in March 2006 at the young age of 66. Afropop listeners know Ali well from our many programs featuring this brilliant singer and guitarist. It is bittersweet to hear him in this encore of a classic Afropop presentation.

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