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Sona Jobarteh Band plays on Saturday 20 March at 20:00 at Somerville Theatre, Somerville.
Line-up: Sona Jobarteh
Source: somervilletheatre.com
Sona Jobarteh is a Gambian multi-instrumentalist, singer, and composer. She is from one of the five principal kora-playing griot families of West Africa, and is the first female professional kora player to come from a griot family. She is the granddaughter of kora virtuoso Amadu Bansang Jobarteh, cousin of the celebrated kora player Toumani Diabatรฉ, and is the sister of the diaspora kora player Tunde Jegede.
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