15 Mar 2019

Live at WOMAD | Kora virtuoso Sona Jobarteh

From RNZ Music, 9:30 pm on 15 March 2019

Sona Jobarteh is the first professional female Kora virtuoso to come from a West African Griot (storyteller/musician) family. She performed Malian love song 'Jarabi' (Beloved) live for RNZ Music ahead of the WOMAD festival in Taranaki. 

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Sona Jobarteh is a modern pioneer in an ancient, male-dominated hereditary tradition that has been exclusively handed down from father to son for the past seven centuries.

'Jarabi' is a love song, and one of the most popular of Kora songs.

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