Live: Au Tour de Cordes (Saint-Louis, Senegal, October 31–November 2) | Songlines
Thursday, December 11, 2025

Live: Au Tour de Cordes (Saint-Louis, Senegal, October 31–November 2)

By Simon Broughton

Simon Broughton untangles a West African celebration of string instruments, with electrified gimbri and a dozen-deep kora corpus among the global buffet

Au Tour De Cordes

Kora school performance (Simon Broughton)

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