ISSAMBA on Stage - ft. ALPHA YAYA DIALLO & ZAL SISSOKHO
Sat, Dec 18
|Victoria
Join us for an evening of West African rhythms featuring Alpha Yaya Diallo & Zal Sissokho
Time & Location
Dec 18, 2021, 7:00 PM
Victoria, 2121 Cadboro Bay Rd, Victoria, BC V8R 5G4, Canada
About the Event
Join us for an evening of West African rhythms featuring Alpha Yaya Diallo & Zal Sissokho
ALPHA YAYA DIALLO
http://alphayayadiallo.com/
Alpha Yaya Diallo, guitarist, singer, songwriter is a three-time Juno Award winner. A true multi-cultural artist, he performs in French, English and his native Guinean languages of Fulani, Malinke, and Sosoxi.
Diallo’s dexterous acoustic and electric guitar-playing, with its fluid melodic lines and compelling grooves, places him in the front ranks of African musicians. His band, Bafing, features high energy African rhythms, visually captivating dancers and a hypnotic percussion section.
Alpha was discovered in the late 1980’s by Peter Gabriel’s Real World Records when he was touring as the lead guitarist for the group Fatala. By successfully uniting the traditional and