Mamadou Diabate Concert History

Mamadou Diabaté was born in 1975 in Kita, a Malian city long known as a center for the arts and culture of the Manding people of West Africa. As the name Diabate indicates, Mamadou comes from a family of griots, or jelis as they are known among the Manding. Jelis are more than just traditional musicians. They use music and sometimes oratory to preserve and sustain people's consciousness of the past, a past that stretches back to the 13th century when the Manding king Sunjata Keita consolidated the vast Empire of Mali...

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Blue Mountains Music Festival
Mar 14 - 16, 2008
 Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia
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Blue Mountains Music Festival
Mar 14 - 16, 2008
 Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia
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Bluesfest (Byron Bay, AUS) on Mar 20, 2008 [121-small]

Bluesfest (Byron Bay, AUS)
Mar 20 - 24, 2008
 Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia
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2019 1 concert
2018 1 concert
2016 1 concert
2013 1 concert
2012 1 concert
2011 1 concert
2010 3 concerts
2009 13 concerts
2008 10 concerts
2007 16 concerts
2006 4 concerts
2005 2 concerts
2001 1 concert

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