Music

BASSEKOU KOUYATE & AMY SACKO

Sunday 24 May 2026

From Mali, legendary musician and ngoni master Bassekou Kouyate tours the UK for the first time as a duo with his wife, the revered griot singer and exceptional vocalist Amy Sacko, following the release of Djudjon, L’Oiseau de Garana (2024), their first chart-topping album together. Connecting past and present, this will be a unique, intimate and extraordinary opportunity to experience a performance that reaches to the very heart of Mali – deeply personal, expressive, chamber-style that promises a rare closeness between artists and audience, a space where each note and lyric resonates deeply.

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Bar opens 6:30 P.M.
Starts 7:30 P.M.
Advance £21.00
On the door £25.00

10% off for members

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From Mali, legendary musician and ngoni master Bassekou Kouyate tours the UK for the first time as a duo with his wife, the revered griot singer and exceptional vocalist Amy Sacko, following the release of Djudjon, L’Oiseau de Garana (2024), their first chart-topping album together. Connecting past and present, this will be a unique, intimate and extraordinary opportunity to experience a performance that reaches to the very heart of Mali – deeply personal, expressive, chamber-style that promises a rare closeness between artists and audience, a space where each note and lyric resonates deeply.

Bassekou Kouyate is the undisputed master of the ngoni, a traditional and historic small West African instrument somewhere between a banjo and a lute. Kouyate’s illustrious career now spans four decades and five albums during which he – and his band Ngoni Ba – have toured the world to critical and commercial acclaim, and has featured collaborations with, amongst many more, Taj Mahal, Ali Farka Toure, Toumani Diabate and Damon Albarn.

Amy Sacko is hugely celebrated vocalist whose “voice of spearing urgency, improbable range” has “a power that jolts like electric shocks” (The Sydney Morning Herald).

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