Rokia Traoré

Date:
Friday, November 15th 2013 at 7:30 pm

Venue:
Rose Theater, Lincoln Center

Location:
33 West 60th Street 10023 New York, NY, US

Cost:
$35


Directions:
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Performing under Lincoln Center's White Light Festival banner, Malian singer-songwriter, Rokia Traoré, “Africa’s most interesting and genuinely experimental contemporary musician” (Daily Telegraph-London), will perform songs from her latest, critically-acclaimed, and most rock-influenced album to date, Beautiful Africa.

Beautiful Africa, received perfect five-star reviews from The Guardian, Observer, Daily Telegraph, and Financial Times upon its UK release in April.  Pitchfork wrote, “Traoré’s past albums established her as a fine singer, but here, she feels more accomplished than ever, her voice bending around her words…with flourishes of subtle vibrato.”  The songs, sung in Bambara, French, and English, are Traoré’s attempt to wrestle with the recent political and social strife in her homeland. The Chicago-Reader said the album “marks a major transformation and a huge step forward artistically” for the singer/songwriter whose career has carved a distinctive path joining traditional African sounds with the jazz, blues, rock and French chanson she grew up with.

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