Sona Jobarteh & Band - Kora Music from West Africa

Sona Jobarteh performed in Weimar on invitation of the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar and its UNESCO Chair of Transcultural Music Studies (TMS). The TMS Chair regularly invites artists to bring the musicology students into contact with various musical cultures for inspiration and exchange. Sona Jobarteh is the first female Kora virtuoso to come from a west African Griot family. The Kora is one of the most important instruments belonging to the Manding peoples of West Africa (Gambia, Senegal, Mali, Guinea and Guinea-Bissau). It belongs exclusively to griot families, and usually only men who are born into these families have the right to take up the instrument professionally. Sona Jobarteh combines various genres of African Music and western musical elements. Sonah Jobarteh – Acoustic Guitar/ Kora/ Vocals Kari Bannermann – Acoustic Guitar Andi McLean – Electric Bass/ BVs Mouhamadou Sarr – Djembe/ Congas/ Calabash/ BVs