MINI of Louisville Live at the Clifton Center Presents
Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba Concert
Thursday, November 17th at 7:30 p.m.
Clifton Center’s Eifler Theatre, 2117 Payne Street
Tickets are $18-$20 and are available at Carmichaels Bookstore, 2720 Frankfort Avenue, (502) 896-6950 or visit www.cliftoncenter.org. For more information about the MINI of Louisville Live at the Clifton Center call (502) 896-8480.

A virtuoso picker and musical visionary whose work blurs the lines between West African and American roots music, Bassekou Kouyate has jammed with Bonnie Raitt and Bono, and won praise from Eric Clapton. He’s also dug into blues and country music with Taj Mahal and created freewheeling improvisations with banjo maverick Bela Fleck. Bassekou’s instrument, the ngoni, is a “spike lute” and an ancestor of the banjo, sharing its taut-skinned drum body, percussive attack, and varied picking techniques. Since 2005, Bassekou has led Ngoni Ba, the first-ever group built around not one but four ngonis—all played by members of his family.