FATOUMATA DIAWARA
Neptune Theatre
1303 NE 45th St
Seattle, WA 98105
Apr 5, 2024
8:00 PM PDT
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Masks are welcomed. If you have tested positive for COVID-19 or are experiencing symptoms, we request that you do not attend any performances. The Neptune Theatre is located in Seattle, Washington at 1313 NE 45th Street in Seattle's University District. This is a general admission event. Parties who require accessible seating will have priority access to accessible seats. Ushers are available to assist when you arrive. 8 ticket limit per patron. Patrons exceeding the ticket limit will have their orders cancelled at the venue's discretion. All sales are final. No refunds or exchanges. Unless otherwise noted, each person must have a ticket regardless of age. No babies in arms. Mobile ticket delivery will be delayed until 4 days prior to event.
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Shosh
April 10th 2024
It was amazing, a beautiful and fun show. She brought some serious and heavy topics but then lifted our spirits with dancing and singing and got the audience on their feet! Thank you Fatou can’t wait to see you perform again
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FATOUMATA DIAWARA Biography
She may be one of the most outstanding voices in world music, but Fatoumata Diawara remains unclassifiable: Afropop, Afrofolk, Afrofuturism... Somewhere between tradition and modernity, guitar in hand, she brings wassoulou rhythms and West African vocal techniques to meet contemporary sounds. A singer, composer, musician and actor, as one of Africa’s leading female voices, she never ceases to surprise: Herbie Hancock, Roberto Fonseca, -M-, Angélique Kidjo, Disclosure, Lauryn Hill; Abderrahmane Sissako and Philippe Godeau for cinema and theatre…
Nsera, the first track from her forthcoming album, is co-written and co-produced by one of the central figures of British pop music, Damon Albarn, an artist with a long history of fusion and collaboration with African musicians. Singing and playing keyboards, the Gorillaz and Blur frontman infuses a touch of melancholy and modernity into the song’s Mandinka sound. This gave rise to a neologism, invented by Fatou for the occasion: “Londonko”.
Nsera will be released on 15 November 2023 and will be transformed into images by Gregory Ohrel (Orelsan, Jain, Residente). An exploration into the heart of African diversity that Fatoumata Diawara previously represented in the “Mali-ko” project (bringing together around forty artists, from all regions of Mali, on a song for peace).
Now Londonko is the name of one imagined continent, bringing the two continents together.
For Fatou, the end of the journey is a return to her home country, which she is still eagerly exploring: her land, her culture, her Destination, “Nsera”. We know that on her album Fenfo, she had “something to say”; on this track it is an invocation for all of Africa to manifest. Africa has a lot to give.
A (re)call for awareness of the true richness of a people who have so much to teach the rest of the world.
Bamako versus Londonko, a story to follow…. and to share.
Read MoreNsera, the first track from her forthcoming album, is co-written and co-produced by one of the central figures of British pop music, Damon Albarn, an artist with a long history of fusion and collaboration with African musicians. Singing and playing keyboards, the Gorillaz and Blur frontman infuses a touch of melancholy and modernity into the song’s Mandinka sound. This gave rise to a neologism, invented by Fatou for the occasion: “Londonko”.
Nsera will be released on 15 November 2023 and will be transformed into images by Gregory Ohrel (Orelsan, Jain, Residente). An exploration into the heart of African diversity that Fatoumata Diawara previously represented in the “Mali-ko” project (bringing together around forty artists, from all regions of Mali, on a song for peace).
Now Londonko is the name of one imagined continent, bringing the two continents together.
For Fatou, the end of the journey is a return to her home country, which she is still eagerly exploring: her land, her culture, her Destination, “Nsera”. We know that on her album Fenfo, she had “something to say”; on this track it is an invocation for all of Africa to manifest. Africa has a lot to give.
A (re)call for awareness of the true richness of a people who have so much to teach the rest of the world.
Bamako versus Londonko, a story to follow…. and to share.
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