Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band
Schedule
Wed, 11 Oct, 2023 at 07:00 pm
Location
The Golden Pony - VA | Harrisonburg, VA
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Join Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band with support from Knifing Around
This event is 18+ - standing room only.
Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 8:00pm
All sales are final. No refunds or exchanges.
Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band are a contemporary world music group from Burkina Faso. Coming from the city of Bobo-Diulasso, the group is rooted in the Manding musical traditions of their ancestral legacy.
The enigmatic lead singer Baba Commandant (Mamadou Sanou) is an original and eccentric character who is well respected in Burkina Faso’s musical community. An activist for traditional Manding music, Baba continues to redefine the boundaries between traditional and modern. In 1981, he joined the Koule Dafourou troupe as a dancer. Later, he developed his current musical direction as a singer, first in Dounia and then in the Afromandingo Band. Baba Commandant’s current band — when he’s not playing with the now-famous Burkinabé musician Victor Démé — is the Mandingo Band. At present, he is a practitioner of Manding roots music in combination with the Afrobeat style, drawing inspiration from the golden era of Nigerian music. Indeed, Fela Kuti/Africa 70 and King Sunny Adé are big influences, as is the legendary Malian growler Moussa Doumbia. Baba Commandant plays the ngoni, the instrument of the Donso (the traditional hunters in this region of Burkina Faso and Mali).
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