Mamady Kouyate's MANDINGO AMBASSADORS Featuring MAME KOUYATE
Wed, 17 Sep 2025
10:00 - 11:55 PM (EDT)
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MAMADY KOUYATE and THE MANDINGO AMBASSADORS
featuring MAME KOUYATE
3 Special shows in September featuring recording artist MAME KOUYATE who is visiting the US from Guinea.
MAME KOUYATE (no relation to Mamady..) is a celebrated Mandingo singer whose fame has mostly been confined to her native Guinea. Deeply rooted in the griot tradition she inherited, her music is careful balance of traditional singing and more contemporary sounds. She will be performing and recording with Mamady all throughout the months of September.
Mamady Kouyate is one of Guinea's better known guitarist. The heir to a long line of griots, he was first taught by his father who was one of the first guinean griots to introduce the guitar. Kouyate senior specialized in transcribing traditional kora and balafon lines for the guitar and his son Mamady first made his mark as an electric guitarist in the 1970's in some of the national bands that were part of president Sékou Touré’s campaign of Authenticité - a movement that sought to create an afrocentric popluar sound. Kouyate eventually joined Guinea’s most famous export, The Bembeya Jazz, with whom he toured for years. After some political trouble, Kouyate relocated to the US in the early 2000’s where he founded the Mandingo Ambassadors, a vehicle for his own music that uses the classic 70’s sound of of Guinea's legendary Sylliphone recordings.
featuring MAME KOUYATE
3 Special shows in September featuring recording artist MAME KOUYATE who is visiting the US from Guinea.
MAME KOUYATE (no relation to Mamady..) is a celebrated Mandingo singer whose fame has mostly been confined to her native Guinea. Deeply rooted in the griot tradition she inherited, her music is careful balance of traditional singing and more contemporary sounds. She will be performing and recording with Mamady all throughout the months of September.
Mamady Kouyate is one of Guinea's better known guitarist. The heir to a long line of griots, he was first taught by his father who was one of the first guinean griots to introduce the guitar. Kouyate senior specialized in transcribing traditional kora and balafon lines for the guitar and his son Mamady first made his mark as an electric guitarist in the 1970's in some of the national bands that were part of president Sékou Touré’s campaign of Authenticité - a movement that sought to create an afrocentric popluar sound. Kouyate eventually joined Guinea’s most famous export, The Bembeya Jazz, with whom he toured for years. After some political trouble, Kouyate relocated to the US in the early 2000’s where he founded the Mandingo Ambassadors, a vehicle for his own music that uses the classic 70’s sound of of Guinea's legendary Sylliphone recordings.
Every Wednesday, 10pm to midnight.
“Dazzling vocal and guitar patterns over a rhythm section that is like a perfect system” Ben Ratliff, NY Times.
$20 suggested. Donate now online or that night in person.
$20 suggested. Donate now online or that night in person.