{"id":911,"date":"2005-09-15T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-15T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=911"},"modified":"2024-04-03T17:11:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T17:11:31","slug":"west-africa-meets-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=911","title":{"rendered":"West Africa meets the West"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsreview.com\/media\/images\/articles\/featured\/2020\/07\/44013-01.jpeg\" alt=\"If you think 12-string guitars are impressive, try playing Mamadou Diabate\u2019s 21-string kora.\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">If you think 12-string guitars are impressive, try playing Mamadou Diabate\u2019s 21-string kora.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes inheritance can be a good thing. Take the talented Mali-born Mamadou Diabate, son of legendary kora player Djelimory Diabate. Like his father, he has mastered the art of the kora, a 21-stringed West African harp. Mamadou\u2019s latest release,\u00a0<em>Behmanka<\/em>, on the tiny World Village boutique label, is as much a homage to traditional 19th-century music as it is a storybook for the present. His delivery is highlighted by his awkward tunings\u2014he prefers to play in the key of D major\u2014and his stellar musicianship. His current West Coast tour brings him to Grass Valley, Chico and, thankfully, Winters. He is accompanied by Walter Strauss, a gifted guitarist from Wyoming who is supporting his new album,\u00a0<em>Pulling Shadows<\/em>. The Palms Playhouse schedule seems to be all over the map these days, but that may be the venue\u2019s greatest attribute. Mamadou and Strauss play the Palms, located at 13 Main Street in Winters, on Thursday at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15. Visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmsplayhouse.com\/\">www.palmsplayhouse.com<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(SN&amp;R)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes inheritance can be a good thing. Take the talented Mali-born Mamadou Diabate, son of legendary kora player Djelimory Diabate. Like his father, he has mastered the art of the kora, a 21-stringed West African harp. Mamadou\u2019s latest release,\u00a0Behmanka, on the tiny World Village boutique label, is as much a homage to traditional 19th-century music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":912,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions\/912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}