Highlighting Black talent is the central mission of the second annual We Black Folk Fest at Club Passim in Cambridge, a two-day festival in February honoring the West African griot tradition through ...

GRIOT: A central figure in many West African cultures. Historically, the griot held many functions, including community historian, cultural critic, indigenous artist and collective spokesperson. The ...

Griot: A central figure in many West African cultures. Historically, the griot held many functions, including community historian, cultural critic, indigenous artist and collective spokesperson. The ...

Hailed by Herbie Hancock as showing “great promise as a new voice in the further development of jazz in the future”, ...

Moreover, students will be introduced to how epic narrations are performed in West African settings as means to impart specific ... is a daring artist who embodies the very essence of Mande griot ...