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“Saitenweise” / String by string

Not the best-quality photo, but a memory of an amazing NYC concert by the Gambian musician Sona Jobarteh — the first woman from a West African griot family to professionally play the kora, a 21-stringed instrument with a calabash gourd body. The skill is usually passed down from father to son and is reserved for prominent griots (master storytellers and keepers of oral tradition). She did her lineage proud.

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Black and white photo of a seated woman onstage playing a kora on her lap. The instrument consists of a huge calabash gourd resonator with two wooden handgrips and a long hardwood neck extending upwards, with dowels to which taut strings are attached. A patterned scarf is draped over the base of the neck and hangs down over the gourd. The woman wears braids and a long-sleeved patterned gown. She looks down in concentration as she plucks the strings with her thumbs and forefingers while holding the handgrips with her remaining fingers. In front of her is a microphone stand and a drum set is in the background.
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