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BALA-BILA

Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street, Providence, RI, United States

BALA-BILA brings together two African master musicians–Balla Kouyaté on balafon, calabash, bass guitar and voice, and Matchume Zango on timbila, mbira, percussion and voice–through a live concert framed as an intercultural musical conversation […]