The chronology of my memories of concerts by musicians from Mali has turned out to have been all wrong: in 2016, I saw Songhoy Blues before I saw Tinariwen, and even before I saw Songhoy Blues in Basel that August, I had seen Ballaké Sissoko on kora with Vincent Segal on cello at the beautiful amphitheater of the Théâtre de la Mer in Sète on the Mediterranean coast of France. On a clear summer evening, the sky grew steadily darker and the stars came out while the sounds of the kora and the cello shimmered up the amphitheater to where I was sitting with my son Miles and my daughter Luisa. (Andrew Shields, #111words, 30 April 2021)
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